Mark Powell

Ten religious reasons against climate change

16 May 2018 8:07 am

Many in politics, as well as in the media, are unaware that there is a growing number of Christians who…

When paedophilia is just dandy

10 May 2018 8:47 am

Tim Winton’s prize-winning novel Breath has recently opened in Australian cinemas to rave reviews, with The Monthly claiming that, “Simon…

A Wolf in wolf’s clothing

4 May 2018 8:28 am

I was sitting at my desk, ruminating on what to make of the whole Michelle Wolf fiasco, when my 14-year-old…

Can war be just?

2 May 2018 6:30 pm

The recent furore over the use of “death iconography” by the current Chief of Army raises important questions as to…

Cook’s contribution to civilisation

28 April 2018 4:28 pm

In a decision that will send many of the Left fleeing to the nearest safe place—i.e. Twitter—to find solace against…

Their ABC: what a joke

27 April 2018 7:34 am

You know that things over at the ABC are getting really desperate when they give people like Tom Ballard—Australia’s most…

Angus Campbell’s Kumbaya Corps

23 April 2018 7:48 am

So, let me get this straight… in the ADF now, wearing a rainbow badge is officially sanctioned, but any form…

Doubting Dawkins – even Darwin, too

17 April 2018 7:46 am

One of the most popular pieces in last Saturday’s Weekend Australian reported a controversial scientific hypothesis proposing that the evolution…

Peter FitzSimons, the atheist fire-and-brimstone preacher

15 April 2018 12:05 pm

Don’t you find it interesting that the one guy in the media who was calling down fire and fury on…

Israel Folau vs the amateur theologians

10 April 2018 7:29 pm

Is Peter van Onselen becoming to The Australian what Emma Alberici is to the ABC, a journalistic liability? It could…

Fairfax, Folau and FitzSimons

9 April 2018 2:02 pm

The Fairfax papers has become so strident in their LGBTIQ advocacy that they cannot tolerate anyone having a view other…

The Uber confessional

6 April 2018 7:52 am

If you ever wondered why the Catholic Church guards the sanctity of the confessional so zealously than you need look…

Their ABC’s anti-religious hypocrisy

2 April 2018 11:53 am

It’s a bit rich for Julia Baird and Hayley Gleeson, having spent the previous twelve months conducting a special ‘investigation’…

Is Australia funding terrorism?

29 March 2018 7:42 am

In the very last issue of The Spectator Australia David Adler wrote what could well turn out to be a…

Why modern-day feminism is inherently sexist

28 March 2018 4:23 pm

Despite the protest from Magda Szubanski that the golden statuette awarded at the Oscars needs to be more “non-binary”, I…

Ten non-religious reasons against abortion

27 March 2018 12:33 pm

The subject of abortion is once again in the news. And significantly, Brisbane lawyer and incoming Queensland senator Amanda Stoker…

Conservative compassion

26 March 2018 8:19 am

One of the strange quirks of modern politics is the perception that it’s the Left who are concerned with justice…

Santa Sabina school’s “religious revolution”

23 March 2018 12:08 pm

The trousers were the tip of the iceberg at Sydney Catholic girls schools Santa Sabina College. With the trousers down,…

Clothes maketh the wo/man

20 March 2018 8:44 pm

There’s an unofficial competition where I live that mostly teenage girls engage in, as to which school has the worst…

Newspeak at UNSW

19 March 2018 7:43 am

I know it’s become hackneyed, overused, and almost now cliché, but the following political slogan—by ‘The Party’— from George Orwell’s…

#AllLivesMatter – white lives too

16 March 2018 7:35 am

Cyril Ramaphosa, the new President of South Africa, has decided that it’s time to take out the trash. The poor…

The NSW Police’s bestial behaviour

15 March 2018 2:12 am

It’s often said that “A picture tells a thousand words.” Well, as Miranda Devine commented about the photo from the…

What’s Left to like at the ABC?

12 March 2018 10:55 am

I was doing some research on an article for what I actually like at the ABC—I think it might have…

Should people with ‘addictions’ be euthanased?

7 March 2018 7:46 am

For all those who don’t think that the “slippery slope” argument is valid, just consider this. In Belgium and the…

Mardi Gras: coming soon to a shoppingtown near you

5 March 2018 8:05 am

Long before the floats paraded down Sydney’s Oxford Street, Maxi Shield and her ‘Queens’ were prancing through Pitt Street Mall.…