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Australia’s doctors need their Kory moment
We have seen the regulation of opinion, enforced through the livelihoods of the one profession whose candour patients depend upon most.
Why did it take the ABC 25 days to say ‘sorry’ for torture fantasy?
For nearly a month, the ABC’s leadership sat in silence while the video remained live on their platforms. They moved only when the lawyers moved.
Before we say Amen to change
Western Australia’s Parliament considers removing the Lord’s Prayer from the Legislative Assembly
How times have changed for uranium exporters
The Whitlam government established the Fox Inquiry in 1975. Two reports were released in the following year. One recommended that…
Pauline Hanson vs anti-capitalist students
The rise of anti-capitalism shows how badly the education system has failed our kids...
A resurrection in bad faith
Tim Wilson is back on the frontbench. The Liberal creed is not, and the One Nation voter can tell the difference...
If you think AI is a fait accompli…
AI is not a software update. It is an industrial process of extraordinary energy intensity which Australia might not be able to provide...
Why you shouldn’t shrug at New Zealand’s greyhound racing ban
The significance of New Zealand’s ban extends far beyond the racetrack, perhaps even all the way to the family pet
Has Holocaust memory lost its moral compass?
There are places where history should impose a particular seriousness upon us. Mauthausen is one of them. A concentration camp…
Labor is not building anything. They are tearing society apart…
Human society is different from other animal societies because of humanity’s most important idea: legitimate government. Before the beginnings of…
The word-bankers
Increasingly, the establishment in its various guises has stopped fighting over what to do and instead chooses to fight over who owns which words
Has One Nation forced Tony Burke to get serious about migration?
One Nation is driving the conversation about mass migration. Now, they appear to have forced Labor’s hand. Okay, nudged their…
They knew. They published it. They mandated anyway…
Australia’s pandemic alibi is ‘nobody could have known’. The proportionality test was in the statute. The safety caveat was on the regulator’s own website.
The A-Bombs were necessary, and the most merciful option
As the anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks in 1945 arrives, many commentators will argue they should never have been…
Where did the resourceful Aussie spirit go?
The internet provides all the knowledge in the world, so why is our society un-skilling?
Chris Bowen is trying to lock Australia into a Net Zero future
The longer Labor is in power, the harder it will be for the Coalition to unpick renewables from the grid
The alibi of skill
Spain must answer for what it failed to stop. Canberra must answer for what it decided...
The hidden risks of low-deposit housing under Labor
The Albanese government’s housing policies have been sold as the great Australian dream made accessible. Five per cent deposit schemes,…
AI psychosis
We all know that the Silicon Valley tech bros are a little detached from reality, but the advent of AI…
Undemocratic? Why shouldn’t Pauline Hanson shun the ABC…
Somewhere off camera, in the back of Pauline Hanson’s Victorian press conference, a sad little voice belonging to an MSM…
The spirit of Cain
I have no interest in whether the ABC was embarrassed, whether it should have pulled the clip...
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