Kevin Donnelly

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…

Mob hysteria

10 February 2022 10:26 am

While both Grace Tame, a victim of sexual abuse, and Brittany Higgins, who was allegedly raped in Parliament House, have…

Woke medicine

22 November 2021 1:55 pm

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

4 October 2021 1:00 pm

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

1 October 2021 12:18 pm

While the commonwealth government is yet to table the revised version of its Freedom of Religion Bill there’s no doubt…

‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive’

21 September 2021 4:00 am

When it comes to recognising and calling out oppression and tyranny CS Lewis hits the nail on the head.  His…

Time to show us the light at the end of the tunnel, Dan

16 September 2021 3:20 pm

The Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews (aka Chairman Dan) after over a year and a half has finally offered to provide…

It’s not only history. The left has captured literature too

14 September 2021 1:08 pm

Much of the recent debate about the school curriculum has focused on history teaching and events like the arrival of…

In Gladystopia men can now be Woman of the Year

3 September 2021 11:29 am

Based on biology and genetic makeup a woman is a woman and a man is a man. No longer, according…

Awarding Olympic medals must end – it reinforces a binary and elitist worldview

10 August 2021 11:06 am

One of the nation’s peak sporting bodies, the Australian Centre for Equity and Excellence in Sport, has issued a warning…

Three in five believe white Australians are ‘victims of discrimination to some extent’

23 June 2021 1:17 pm

It’s no surprise Inclusive Australia’s ‘Measuring Social Inclusion’ survey last year discovered three out of five respondents “believed that White Australians…

Their ABC fails the objectivity test on Aboriginal history

3 June 2021 12:12 pm

According to its Code of Practice, the ABC “has a statutory duty to ensure that the gathering and presentation of…

The revised national curriculum is cancel culture on steroids

7 May 2021 4:00 am

The release of the revised national curriculum, once again, has sparked a debate about the study of Judeo-Christianity and Western…

The federal government didn’t kill university arts departments. Try cultural Marxism

11 April 2021 3:27 pm

In a defence of arts and humanities departments in the Nine newspapers last week that flagged concerns about their survival,…

The school curriculum must focus on learning, not indoctrination

29 March 2021 1:31 pm

Calls to mandate what is described as ‘consent education’ in the national school curriculum represents the most recent example of…

Teaching continues to go backwards

25 March 2021 4:00 am

If ever the public needs additional evidence as to why Australia’s education system is either flatlining or going backwards based…

Cancel culture and the left’s long march

16 March 2021 4:00 am

Last week Manchester University in Britain published a ‘Guide to Inclusive Language’ that proves, once again, how successful the cultural-left…

Victimhood feminism: whatever happened to empowering women?

26 February 2021 4:16 pm

As a teenage boy who saw his mother beaten and assaulted as a result of domestic violence I’m the first…

Unto them a child is born: the joylessness of secular faiths

20 December 2020 5:11 pm

While those committed to extreme forms of secularism argue religion, especially Christianity, must be abolished it’s ironic that at the same time they adopt many of the characteristics of the…

Eton mess

13 December 2020 5:00 am

The Duke of Wellington, one of England’s most celebrated and honoured military figures responsible for defeating Napoleon at the Battle…

Parents targeted in Daniel Andrews’ latest gender theory folly

1 December 2020 7:14 pm

While 98% of Australians are happy being women or men and the overwhelming majority of children and teenagers are happy…

Our universities: foundering in the shallows of farce and incoherence

26 November 2020 2:01 pm

As noted by the British Conservative politician Michael Gove in Celsius 7/7, whereas classical Marxism defines the revolutionary struggle in terms of the workers…

Education in reverse

2 November 2020 4:35 pm

Just when you thought radical cultural-left ideology and political correctness could get no worse along comes its most recent manifestation…

Democracy is dead in Danandrewstan

27 September 2020 4:00 pm

The great wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is attributed with the expression “Indeed it has been said that democracy…