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You can’t cancel women from women’s sport
From the US Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her references to “menstruating person”, to the Lancet’s “bodies with vaginas” to Australia’s…
A Catch-22 defeated Peter Ridd – but there’s still hope for academic freedom
Peter Ridd has lost in the High Court, but the judgment has nevertheless set an important precedent in favour of…
Superwoke
Faster than a Pride Parade. More powerful than a social justice warrior. Able to leap all 72 genders in a…
Academic groupthink: is Nick Coatsworth the new Peter Ridd?
Never has it been so important for Australian universities to be places of free intellectual inquiry than it is right now. But…
Dave Chappelle braves the TERF wars
Dave Chappelle has us arguing again over his last Netflix special “The Closer”. Chappelle has controversially declared himself “team TERF.”…
Why cry over Covid yet back state-sanctioned killing?
The newly appointed New South Wales Premier, Dominic Perrottet is being criticised for expediting the process of bringing his out of its…
Come fly the gender neutral skies
The gender-neutral brigade are getting a bit much. Last week I wrote an article for SpecOz about how women are…
The IBAC sensation: ‘ICAC, hold my beer’
State corruption and integrity commissions are well and truly du jour at the moment. Less than a fortnight ago, ICAC felled its…
Look over there! Look over there!
If it wasn’t so serious you’d fall off your chair laughing. A major sleaze scandal is threatening the Andrews Government…
Freedom Day? You have a barcode on your forehead
You wouldn’t let a premier tattoo a barcode on your forehead, so why do we submit to QR check-ins? “Those…
It’s not Freedom Day until we’re all free
Welcome to Freedom Day! Oh, hang on, this isn’t Freedom Day. If it were, everyone would be free with no…
The Business Council of Australia’s green schizophrenia
The Business Council of Australia is a pale imitation of the body that pioneered economic reform and deregulation 30-40 years…
The rule of medical law continues in Danadrewstan
Victoria has invented a new type of law: medical law. Medical law is enshrined in Victorian law by emergency orders made under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 (Vic). Medical…
When will South Australia tackle the Covid crunch?
No premier will be watching how events unfold in New South Wales with the relaxation of coronavirus restriction than South…
Freedom beckons for Sydney. Meanwhile, in Victoria…
Freedom beckons for New South Wales. As of tomorrow, residents of that state will enjoy exotic delights such as having…
If a cabinet minister can pay his legals why not ABC journalists?
In the national capital the most-used greeting is usually not “How are you?” but “What have you heard?” Canberra is…
Dominic Perrottet puts responsible government, not unelected bureaucrats, first
I can hardly believe it. The new Premier of New South Wales, Dominic Perrottet, appeared at a press conference yesterday…
Why can’t Canberra be more like Florida?
On Monday 4 October, after 245 days, Melbourne claimed the decidedly unwelcome record of the longest locked-down city in the world. On…
Will someone please explain to Daniel Andrews he can’t sack a judge who isn’t double-jabbed
The first of October 2021 will go down in history as a belter of a day in Australian politics. The…
I am a woman – and proud of it
I am a woman. I am not a uterus-holder, a vulva-owner, a person with a front-hole or a body with…
Journalists want health officials to run the country?
Our media is in thrall to the busybody worrywarts of the public health bureaucracy. From the Sydney Morning Herald from earlier…
Is Facebook really on the ropes?
It may be counter-intuitive, but American investigative and Pulitzer winning journalist Glenn Greenwald makes a strong argument that paints Facebook…
The danger of ‘luxury beliefs’
“Luxury beliefs” are all the rage in elite circles. Rob Henderson, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge who…
Gladys Berejiklian is not a victim
Not everyone buys into the whole, ‘poor Gladys betrayed by a dodgy boyfriend’ line. No one should… As Premier, Gladys…
Covid-19 and Hobbes vs Locke
As we inch towards learning to live with Covid, it is common to hear it said that the government is granting us more…
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