Latham in lawfare
The lawfare has begun: the Osman Faruqi v Mark Latham “anti-white racism” case kicked off in the Supreme Court of…
The dual citizenship judgment reveals Labor’s true character
They say a crisis brings out our real character. If we want an example of Labor’s character as a political…
As a UN Human Rights Council member we must not reward Palestinian terror
Now that Australia is to be a card-carrying member of the UN’s Human Rights Council from January 2018 (alongside such…
How will you celebrate a “Yes” win?
The Labor caucus has said “no” to inserting extra protections for religious freedoms in any bill to legalise same-sex marriage…
Warriors for liberty
It is sobering if not downright depressing to be reviewing two new books whose authors can be described as warriors…
Climate critics can’t keep up with Abbott
Sneers and insults were the response de rigeur from the uninformed to Tony Abbott’s speech a couple of days ago to the Global…
Behaviour goes to character in the same-sex marriage debate
“A question or topic such as this should be considered based on its own meaning, value and consequences, and not…
The burqa defies our dress code
By any reasonable measure, the burqa is a complete anachronism in a society in which women enjoy the privileges of…
Marriage equality, father figures and family trees
We can all agree that adoptive parents – including same=sex couples – can be as loving and caring as biological…
Apology unaccepted
It was 18 years ago last weekend that then-PM John Howard moved a Motion of Reconciliation, including an expression of…
Chinese whispers overs North Korea
Australia could – and should – play a vital if silent role in the (literally) frightful face off between the…
Cold temperatures in hot water
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) is in hot water after revelations that have cast doubt on the reliability and veracity…
Australian notes
Inequality is the human condition, Bill Whaddaya mean by ‘tackling inequality’, Bill? Don’t you know that inequality is built…
Wage inequality: us vs the bureaucrats
Note to Labour: One reason why the income gap widens in times of slow economic growth, I suggest, is surely…
Same old inconvenient drivel
Al Gore’s new film, An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth to Power, opens in Australia on August 10. What a pity.…
Sydney (pseudo) Science Festival 2017
The Sydney Science Festival (August 8-20, if you want to put it in your diary) has booked an Opera House…
The peaceful majority are irrelevant
Islam has exported its primitive, age-old and endless Sunni vs Shiite war of religious violence around the world, expanding it…
It just ain’t so
Writing at Climate Etc., esteemed climate scientist Dr Judith Curry has urged greater attention to the uncertainties of scientific research…
Terror targets? We have it in writing…
Are we in the West stupid, careless, uninformed or suicidal? It is now 10 years – that is a decade…
ASIO’s insult to the intelligence of Muslims
It’s an insult to the intelligence of Muslims, frankly to all of us, to keep claiming that terrorism today is…
Jihadi notes
Why the West is lost The shimmering mirage of an enlightened age across the West is shattered now, and it…
Sinking into oppression
We were saying things around the dinner table last Friday night and Gillian Triggs could not stop us. We were…
Democracy is not a la carte
In Australia, the new ACTU boss Sally McManus believes that unions can and should break any law they feel is…
March too much (for science)
Just days after more than 300 US scientists petitioned President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate change agency (February…
Renewables: stupid is as stupid does
Recent (and frequent) power failures and ever increasing renewable energy targets by Labor States makes it seem like Australia is…
