Mark Powell

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.…

Emma Alberici scores top Marx

1 March 2018 7:47 am

If you’ve been holidaying in Greece and missed the recent fiasco surrounding Emma Alberici, the chief economics correspondent at the…

Threats of Aboriginal terrorism will do irreparable harm

27 February 2018 1:14 pm

Most Australians are pretty generous. They want to do the right thing by this country’s first inhabitants, especially when it…

The radical politics of Black Panther

26 February 2018 8:20 am

Black Panther opened in Australian cinemas recently and it certainly does not disappoint. It’s the eighteenth movie of the Marvel…

Ten religious reasons why Barnaby Joyce should resign

19 February 2018 8:36 am

I like Barnaby Joyce. And I honestly pray for him, his estranged wife Natalie, their children, and his new partner…

Yassmin’s Islamic amnesia

16 February 2018 11:03 am

Like so many Australians, I have come to the conclusion that Yassmin Abdel-Magied is maybe not quite in touch with…

Magda’s “mandroid” madness

14 February 2018 7:29 am

Remember when they said last year that if we re-defined marriage then nothing was going to change? Well, from one…

What would happen if church schools closed?

12 February 2018 8:02 am

I’m told, on good authority, that bed-time stories in the house of some school principals include a retelling, in hushed…

Ten non-religious reasons against euthanasia

9 February 2018 7:59 am

I have, in awe, seen a husband caring for his young wife—and their four children—in the last months of her…

Is Lyle Shelton our Jacob Rees-Mogg?

4 February 2018 8:07 pm

So, Lyle Shelton has decided to become the federal communications director for the Australian Conservatives, and not, as The Sydney…

Jordan Peterson’s psycho-religious heresy

1 February 2018 5:46 pm

Cathy Newman’s train wreck of an interview with Jordan Peterson could well be one of the defining moments in how…

The stupidity of sex segregation in sport

25 January 2018 4:00 pm

When it comes to highlighting the extremism of the latest Leftist fad, The Conversation is the gift that just keeps…

Cultural Marxism’s war on freedom

20 December 2017 7:27 am

One of the things that characterise Left-leaning journalists is their Cultural Marxism. And one of the chief ways in which…

China girl

15 December 2017 7:20 am

Before I begin, I should give something of a personal ‘disclosure’. I am currently the associate minister of a Christian…

What’s going to change in Australia with same-sex marriage?

11 December 2017 7:17 am

In the space of just a few decades, homosexuality has gone from being a criminal offence to a psychological disorder,…

ADF: the Australian Defence Farce

9 December 2017 4:42 pm

If you still have any uncertainty as to whether or not the Australian Defence Force has been ideologically hijacked by…

The hate campaign begins as #lovewins

8 December 2017 7:23 am

Let to be known that on the December 7, 2017 – the day in Australian Parliamentary history when “love won”…

Weaponising feminism

6 December 2017 12:07 pm

I have no idea whether or not Geoffrey Rush is innocent or guilty. And neither, probably, do you. To his…

Hollywood hypocrisy

5 December 2017 1:07 pm

Mike Pence, the current Vice President of the United States, has been mocked and ridiculed for following the revelation that…