Mark Powell

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…

Dastardly Dastyari

4 December 2017 12:24 pm

When Herschelle Gibbs dropped Steve Waugh in the 1999 Cricket World Cup one of the most misquoted quotes was born.…

Has feminism jumped the shark?

29 November 2017 11:05 am

In the much loved and long-running television series Happy Days, when the Fonz literally jumped a shark that a whole…

Labor Lite

27 November 2017 7:18 am

Despite all his rhetoric to the contrary, Malcolm Turnbull really isn’t concerned about protecting civil and religious freedoms. In what…

ABC = Anything (but) Biblical Christianity

24 November 2017 11:48 am

When it comes to reporting on religion, Julia Baird is a great example of what is wrong with the ABC,…

Political refugees seeking asylum

22 November 2017 7:26 am

For someone claiming that he has an exclusive hold on the high moral ground regarding ‘love,’ Peter Van Onselen certainly…

When is a person a person?

16 November 2017 2:05 pm

There is something deeply inconsistent that an otherwise excellent organisation such as White Ribbon which, campaigns so tirelessly regarding violence…

Dinosaurs and deplorables

8 November 2017 7:34 am

As a former state moderator of the Presbyterian Church, it was with a touch of sadness that I read a…