Kevin Donnelly

Cardinal Pell laid to rest

2 February 2023 4:30 am

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

11 January 2023 12:36 pm

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

1 January 2023 10:40 am

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

30 December 2022 11:33 am

In Looking back on the Spanish Civil War (1943) George Orwell writes, such is the power of totalitarian thought control…

VATE’s commitment to championing the Voice

2 December 2022 8:00 am

It shouldn’t surprise that at a recent conference organised by the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) teachers…

Power for power’s sake

29 November 2022 8:00 am

Unlike the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who wrote that the East German government – unhappy with the election result –…

Religious schools struggle to keep the faith

12 November 2022 4:00 am

The expression the price of freedom is eternal vigilance is certainly true when it comes to religious freedom and freedom…

Australia’s dumbed-down schools are going nowhere

21 October 2022 10:00 am

Over the last month, there have been yet another two initiatives designed, supposedly, to improve the performance of Australian schools,…

A new ‘welcome to country’

6 October 2022 9:00 am

The Indigenous Welcome to Country is so prevalent and widespread that it’s heard at sporting events, at the start of…

The dictionary of Woke

30 August 2022 2:42 pm

While expressions like ‘political correctness’ and ‘being woke’ are recent, their origins can be traced to a number of intellectuals…

Chairman Dan’s antipodean Venezuela

23 August 2022 4:00 am

In her media realise dated August 17 and headed ‘Applications Open for Premier’s Spirit of Democracy Tour’, Minister Natalie Hutchins…

Australia ignores the tragedy of Tavistock

12 August 2022 11:33 am

In the concerning world of Woke radical gender theory – where school children are taught that sex and gender are…

Five is too young for radical gender theory

26 July 2022 7:00 am

The Sydney parent of a 5-year-old child attending Roseville Kids Care complaining about his child being indoctrinated with radical LGBTQ+…

Evolution is preferable to revolution

12 July 2022 4:00 am

Grace Baldwin, in Monday’s Herald Sun, joins a long list of commentators arguing in favour of rising Wokeness saying, ‘If…

Marxist education? Senator Hughes might be right

30 June 2022 4:00 am

The NSW Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes gave a speech to the Sydney Institute identifying why the Scott Morrison government was…

You have to accept my identity as a tree

11 June 2022 9:00 am

[Calm down, it’s satire.] There’s no denying the fact I’m a tree. For years I was a victim of gaslighting…

We’re not dead yet!

1 June 2022 8:00 am

In response to the federal election and to paraphrase Mark Twain, the death of centre-right parties, including the Liberal Party,…

Kooyong and Wentworth: the nowhere lands

22 May 2022 8:20 pm

There’s no doubt that Scott Morrison’s perceived arrogance, the small target strategy employed by the ALP, and the success of…

The spirit of conservative vision

14 May 2022 9:00 am

One of the principal election strategies employed by Scott Morrison is the argument that Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party…

Supporting women in sport is a winner for Morrison

22 April 2022 4:00 am

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and ex-Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott are right to support Katherine Deves, the Liberal…

Schools must return to a classical education

7 April 2022 9:00 am

Evidenced by this week’s international CiRCE conference on classical education involving a number of Australian and American speakers, the good news…

Wokeism: the next big religion

31 March 2022 2:00 pm

One of the more intriguing aspects of neo-Marxist inspired wokeness, notwithstanding its avowed secular nature and hostility to Christianity, is…

Radical gender theory starts in kindergarten

18 March 2022 10:53 am

A recent research paper titled Parents’ perspectives on the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversity in K-12 schooling: results from an…

Kids Helpline goes Woke

4 March 2022 12:00 pm

It shouldn’t surprise that under the heading ‘Sexual Identity’ the internet-based Kids Helpline promotes gender fluidity and diversity to children…

Kids need an education, not Woke indoctrination

18 February 2022 2:00 pm

A recent The Sun newspaper article written by the UK Secretary of State for Education Nadhim Zahawi should be compulsory reading for…