Augusto Zimmermann

How coronavirus controls killed my faith in the Liberal Party

5 January 2021 12:40 pm

The following is my letter of resignation from the Liberal Party. It has just been presented to the Membership Coordinator…

Cancel culture panel cancelled by cancel culture

13 November 2020 5:57 pm

Last Saturday I participated as a panellist at the Disrupted Festival of Ideas. Organised by the State Library of Western Australia, I was on…

Getting on with the job? What job, precisely, Prime Minister?

1 November 2020 5:00 am

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrision said it was ‘the right decision’ of the Victorian Premier to impose lockdown draconian…

Daniel Andrews is breaking the boundaries

5 September 2020 5:30 pm

Victoria police arrested a pregnant mother in front of her little children in her Ballarat home. Zoe Buhler was arrested…

If Peter Ridd loses, academic freedom in Australia is dead

4 August 2020 6:58 pm

Scott Morrison once stated that he was unconcerned about ongoing attacks on free speech, because he thought that free speech…

Lockdown and the new Left Privilege

23 June 2020 5:00 am

As a constitutional law scholar and legal theorist who appreciates our classical liberal tradition of constitutional government and the rule…

Coronavirus: a threat to lives. The government response? A threat to fundamental liberties

5 April 2020 5:00 am

One of the few positive aspects of this present crisis is that some politicians are finally revealing their true authoritarian…

Jihad by fire?

29 January 2020 5:00 am

Here is a basic question: Would it be possible to assume that deliberately setting fires in Australia could eventually become…

Domestic violence is too serious an issue to be used by bigots bashing Christianity

10 December 2019 5:30 pm

In an article in The Conversation yesterday, Vicki Lowik (a PhD candidate at Central Queensland University) and Annabel Taylor (an associate…

The hidden male victims of domestic violence

5 December 2019 5:00 am

While domestic violence against women is constantly highlighted by the mass media, such violence against men is rarely reported. We…

How abuse of violence orders corrupts our family law system

11 November 2019 12:15 pm

I have recently prepared my submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee regarding Australia’s Family Law System. It summarises a number…

The feminist assault on justice — and due process

20 September 2019 5:00 pm

Sexual harassment, let alone sexual assault and rape, are tragic occurrences. However, the idea that any charge a woman brings…

Why everything you’ve been told about the Amazon wildfires is untrue

4 September 2019 5:00 am

You have been told lies by the French President about the Amazon rainforest burning on an unprecedented scale. Everything –…

The religious freedom Trojan horse

5 August 2019 6:43 am

There is a considerable risk that the Morrison government might be contemplating the enactment of discrimination laws that could ban…

A religious freedom commissioner: not just worse than doing nothing, but the wrong thing

19 July 2019 5:00 am

Attorney-General Christian Porter intends to put the proposed religious discrimination bill to Parliament in the near future. Unveiling the government’s…

We need a Restoration of Freedoms Bill, not religious freedom legislation

3 July 2019 5:00 am

The Morrison government is promising to introduce a religious discrimination bill. And yet, these reforms are unsatisfactory. They pose a…

Where’s the Prime Minister on the free speech crisis?

26 June 2019 12:55 pm

GoFundMe’s shutdown of Israel Folau’s fundraising page for “violation of … terms of service” is a troubling development for religious…

Facebook, that Christianity conference, and what happened next

11 June 2019 1:15 pm

When I decided to post a Facebook notice about our major legal conference that addresses the rising tide of anti-Christian…

Prime Minister, stop praising multiculturalism

26 April 2019 7:49 am

‘What do Australia’s founding fathers and cultural diversity have in common? Both celebrate this country’s great multiculturalism’, Scott Morrison believes.…

Why is Facebook censoring a conference on Christianity and religious freedom?

9 April 2019 12:32 pm

Every day millions of Christians around the world are persecuted for their faith. They are often intimidated, abused and in…

Daniel Andrews’ free speech protection racket

27 September 2018 7:36 am

The Victorian Police’s decision to issue a bill to the promoters of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux’s speech event in…

An inconvenient truth about child abuse

14 July 2018 9:00 am

In debates about child abuse and neglect, truth normally becomes the first casualty. ‘A quarter of Australian children had witnessed…

Religious freedom of political communication: a constitutionally protected freedom

20 March 2018 1:23 pm

Now that same-sex marriage has been legalised, there is a further need to recognise the right of religious individuals and…

Bad sex

30 September 2017 9:00 am

Australian universities appear to have completely capitulated to the virulently anti-male propaganda of radical feminists. Feminists increasingly control what is…

The classical liberal case against same-sex marriage

14 September 2017 7:31 am

When one considers the proposed redefinition of marriage, one cannot help but notice the undeniably statist nature of the proposal. The state…