Temptations of a digital world
In his recent book, The Anxious Generation, the American psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns about the debilitating and destructive impact of mobile phones…
Reject education furphies
Despite the additional billions invested over the last 30 years, countless educational enquiries and reports, several national reform agreements, and…
The question of identity
One of the key reasons Australia voted 60/40 against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is because it was divisive. Instead…
The politics of envy
One of the defining moments of the 2004 federal election was Mark Latham’s hit list of wealthy non-government schools and…
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…
From the ski lodge to the sea: our kids will never be free
As to why so many students wagged school last week protesting about the supposed man-made climate catastrophe and why so…
Toward a new totalitarianism
There’s no doubt cultural-Marxist-inspired Woke ideology is destroying the best parts of Western Civilisation. Rationality, truth, and a spiritual or…
A true cultural turning point
In the week before the Voice referendum, the esteemed commentator for the Australian newspaper Paul Kelly argued if the ‘No’…
One person, one vote: Australia must say NO to race-based political privilege
Unlike totalitarian regimes, liberal Western democracies like Australia are based on the fundamental principle of one person, one vote. To…
Andrews’ legacy of lost trust
Daniel Andrews (aka Dictator Dan/Chairman Dan) is one of the most divisive, self-serving, and Machiavellian politicians in recent history. While…
Del Noce and eroticism
Why are children and teenagers being indoctrinated with neo-Marxist-inspired radical gender and sexuality theory? Why are transwomen cancelling women’s rights…
Australia’s Brexit moment
The longer the Voice campaign goes on, and as more and more Australians say ‘No’, it’s obvious Prime Minister Albanese’s…
Conservatism in a modern world?
What does it mean to be a conservative? One interpretation characterises conservatism as ossified, backward-looking, and incapable of change. In…
Our schools are failing – this is why
The news earlier this year that the Labor government in Victoria will use schools to promote a ‘Yes’ case for…
Long march of the Marxists
Instead of 'I think therefore I am', the credo is ‘I feel therefore I’m right’
Parents kept in the dark about gender
Should a school or a student’s parents decide whether the child can be involved in gender transitioning? In Australia, material…
Parents left in the dark by new-age learning
In the jargon and edubabble much loved by new-age, Woke educrats teachers no longer teach, instead they are described as…
Misgendering is the new blasphemy
Events in the UK, where a Christian teacher has been sacked for misgendering a female student who now identifies as…
IDAHOBIT: Victorian schools add another activist event to the calendar
Victorian schools celebrating the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) set for May 18 prove, yet again, how…
Blacktivism and the Crown
Given the coronation of King Charles III, there are differing and often conflicting opinions about the significance of the British…
Colonial thieves…?
There’s no end to the Woke, cultural-left pushing ‘Yes’ to the Indigenous Voice in the nation’s classrooms. The left-leaning Australian…
Cardinal Pell laid to rest
The world, and not just the Christian world, will be a lesser place after the loss of Cardinal George Pell…
Cardinal George Pell: Australia’s most influential and controversial Catholic figure
There’s no doubt Cardinal George Pell is one of Australia’s most influential and controversial Catholic figures. While some will see…
Pope Benedict XVI: towering intellect and deep piety
Sydney’s Cardinal Anthony Fisher is right to praise the late Pope Benedict XVI as ‘a man of towering intellect and…
Del Noce, modernity, and the death of the Enlightenment
In Looking back on the Spanish Civil War (1943) George Orwell writes, such is the power of totalitarian thought control…