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Education destroyed by self-serving educrats

Such is the parlous and substandard state of Australia’s education system, if those in charge managed a major corporation like…

8 Dec 2023

Vaccination rates fall… ‘Quick, let’s vaccinate more people!’

There’s a recent report running around calling for the government to spend lots of money because vaccination rates are not high enough,…

8 Dec 2023

CIS 2023 Nanny State Awards

The Centre for Independent Studies had intended to follow the rules for US presidential polls and ban any candidate from…

8 Dec 2023

We are in the fight for our life

It is difficult for the non-Jewish observer and commentator to fully understand how the trauma of the Holocaust and 2,000…

8 Dec 2023

Don’t get comfy

With Christmas dawning upon us and CPI down from 5.6 to 4.9 per cent, it is without a doubt time…

7 Dec 2023

The enduring relevance of natural law

It is impossible to understate the malaise that has engulfed Australia in 2023. Indeed, it has been a tumultuous year…

Adding workplace rules won’t make Australians richer

According to the federal government, the Closing Loopholes legislation is a commitment ‘to getting wages moving and strengthening enterprise bargaining’.…

7 Dec 2023

Could Japan’s experience with post-war propaganda help Australia?

Australia is caught in a history war that pits marginalised minorities against oppressive majorities. When politicians and commentators on both…

7 Dec 2023

The hypocrisy of the pro-Palestine mob

Something that seems to have escaped the attention of the left, so eager are they to condemn a war by…

6 Dec 2023

Queer Theory in the public schools is anti-science mumbo-jumbo

I have been reading through some training aid documents from ClickView titled Understanding Gender with various subtitles Talking about Gender and…

Activists have severely damaged the arts in Australia

Some of our finest cultural institutions have been hijacked by political activists. Captive audiences have been subjected to political activism while artists…

6 Dec 2023

Unravelling UNRWA

UNRWA, which describes itself as a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, has…

5 Dec 2023

“Australia was a lab of tyranny” – Naomi Wolf

For over 30 years, Naomi Wolf was lauded as a feminist icon, a bestselling author and a darling of liberal America. Her investigative journalism during the COVID pandemic led to those labels being replaced overnight with pejoratives like 'conspiracy theorist' and 'anti-vaxxer'.

Unbowed and unbroken, Naomi continues to stand against tyranny in the finest tradition of classical liberalism. Her new book is titled 'Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age'.

The Dutch Trump’s big win

London’s EU-friendly Financial Times, aka the Brussels Pravda, is the daily compulsory reading for Eurocrats and preens itself with its…

9 Dec 2023

Swapping terrorists for hostages does not work

Western democracies continue to ignore the problem of big numbers of migrants who bring their inherited hatreds and conflicts to…

9 Dec 2023

Don’t cry for Milei, Argentina

With much wailing and gnashing of teeth from its ‘useless political caste,’ as he calls them, Javier Milei will be…

9 Dec 2023

Roll out the red carpet for jihad

It is a hotly contested space to identify the very worst decision of the current Australian Labor government, but the…

9 Dec 2023

New Zealand’s Yoni-come-latelies

When it comes to the excruciating war Hamas declared on Israel on 7 October, protesters in New Zealand have largely…

9 Dec 2023

Leadership vacuum

Having closely observed nine Australian prime ministers over the past three decades, there are patterns of behaviour that recur from…

9 Dec 2023

Usurping the dollar

As Venezuela’s economy crumpled heading into 2017, the US thought President Nicolás Maduro was vulnerable in elections for governorships that…

9 Dec 2023

Gaza visas are worse than foolhardy

‘We will decide who comes to this country, and the circumstances in which they come in,’ declared John Howard in…

9 Dec 2023

Jenrick’s resignation is a turning point for the Tory party

When he found out that a career-minded MP called Rishi Sunak had come out in favour of leaving the EU,…

7 Dec 2023

Why Robert Jenrick was wrong to resign

Robert Jenrick resigned as immigration minister this evening over the government’s plan to amend the Rwanda scheme. Here is the…

7 Dec 2023

What Jenrick’s resignation means for Sunak’s premiership

Rishi Sunak used his appearance before the 1922 committee this evening to tell MPs – once again – that the…

7 Dec 2023

Why I resigned as immigration minister

This evening, Robert Jenrick resigned as immigration minister after disagreeing with the government’s plans to amend the Rwanda scheme. Here…

7 Dec 2023

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Did Maori MPs mean to insult King Charles?

The co-leaders of New Zealand’s Māori party, Te Pāti Māori, have defended their actions at the swearing-in ceremony at parliament…

6 Dec 2023

Kiwi life

Given the UK’s Rishi Sunak sacking Suella Braverman for saying what many others would feel – that the police were…

25 Nov 2023

New Zealand’s coalition goes to war with Jacinda Ardern’s legacy

New Zealand finally has a government again. It’s been 40 days since Labour was defeated in the country’s election, but the…

24 Nov 2023

The worst Noel? Why Kiwis are turning against wealthy foreigners

Wealthy foreigners are flocking to New Zealand, but not all Kiwis are happy about their arrival: not least locals who…

4 Nov 2023

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Aussie life

While the donning of keffiyehs by actors at the end of a performance of the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of…

9 Dec 2023

Language

When Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press he was asked if Israel was breaking international…

9 Dec 2023

How should you pronounce ‘mayoral’?

The Prime Minister mentioned mayoral elections the other day and he pronounced them as though they were conducted by mouth…

9 Dec 2023

Dear Mary: I’m a fan of Jordan Peterson. How do I stop people judging me for it?

Q. I am a great admirer of Dr Jordan Peterson so am naturally inclined to want to discuss his ideas…

9 Dec 2023

Mother’s always angry: Jungle House, by Julianne Pachino, reviewed

Jungle House is not the sultry tropical tale you might expect either from its title or from its vivid, palm-strewn…

Fast and furious: America Fantastica, by Tim O’Brien, reviewed

It’s been said again and again but rarely so plainly illustrated: American life is now too berserk for fiction to…

9 Dec 2023

In the dark early 1960s, at least we had the Beatles

‘These things start on my birthday – like the Warsaw Uprising – and spoil my day,’ wrote the understandably self-pitying…

The hubris of the great airship designers

Tribal rivalries have existed from humanity’s beginning and have fuelled the creation of every prestigious monument ever built. By the…

9 Dec 2023

A strong whiff of goodbyes: The Pole and Other Stories, by J.M. Coetzee, reviewed

New books by, articles about or Sasquatch-like sightings of J.M. Coetzee routinely send me back to that infamous YouTube clip…

9 Dec 2023

Religion provides the rhythm

Music is an art of time: songs play to a rhythm, giving shape to the seconds as they pass, charging…

9 Dec 2023

Sex and the Famous Five

Generations of readers of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series have enjoyed the books without having to contemplate the erotic properties…

9 Dec 2023

The splendour and squalor of Venice

Hard by the Rialto, in a densely packed and depressingly tacky quarter of Venice, the church of San Giovanni Cristosomo…

9 Dec 2023