VATE’s commitment to championing the Voice
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A recent The Sun newspaper article written by the UK Secretary of State for Education Nadhim Zahawi should be compulsory reading for…
Mob hysteria
While both Grace Tame, a victim of sexual abuse, and Brittany Higgins, who was allegedly raped in Parliament House, have…
Woke medicine
As noted by Roger Kimball in the World section, politically correct language and mind control now infects the medical profession,…
Victoria, the Venezuela of the South
Such was the ineptitude and mismanagement when Joan Kirner was Victoria’s Premier the state become known as the Albania of the south…
Liberty demands the state respect religion
While the commonwealth government is yet to table the revised version of its Freedom of Religion Bill there’s no doubt…
