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Trick question: why test brick wall with head?
The late and great American columnist Charles Krauthammer reminded his readers that to understand politics you have to remember that…
Why aren’t we including porn in debate over ‘toxic culture’?
The Canberra Bubble has become the unlikely setting for a conflict that had to come – between the desiccated descendants…
We can’t consent to this traducing of the law
Anyone who denies that the push by activists to redefine consent is politically motivated is either naïve or a liar. …
Sorry, Twits, but Newspoll doesn't mean the PM's swinging in the breeze
It’s bad news for the Morrison Government. Australians have turned, almost everywhere. Just look at the figures below. Interesting poll,…
The Morrison government needs a hard jab over vaccination levels
The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines across Australia is behind time, behind volume and well behind the expectations the Morrison government…
Tonight’s viewing: Malcolm on the Outer
From Wikipedia: Malcolm in the Middle, sorry, Malcolm on the Outer. The series follows a dysfunctional working class family [THE LIBERAL PARTY]…
Carla, darling
In the days when executive’s wives had their own expense accounts and led glamorous lives that entailed Rose Balls at…
The World Health Organisation must clean up its act
As virulent new Covid-19 strains continue to ravage the world, a draft copy of a joint WHO-China report now concludes that the pandemic…
Where are our conservative heroes?
The federal parliament’s pre-Budget recess carries with it crucial significance this year. It comes at a time when the Morrison…
The Spectator Australia TV Easter’s special
In our Easter special, CounterCulture is doubling down on our war on wokeness, taking a hard look at the most…
Andrew Bolt and the message of Easter
Dear Mr Bolt I recently watched a segment you did with Paul Barnett, the former Anglican Bishop of North Sydney,…
The joke’s on the Peter Dutton haters. Again
To anyone sane, Peter Dutton is the Minister for Defence. To the loony left, he is Satan with a shaved…
Labor loses the Palestinian plot
The Australian Labor Party has now adopted former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘unconditional recognition’ of Palestine as well as…
Not an April fools’ joke
Just another day at their ABC, with a typical ABC expert: Professor Danielle Celermajer leads the MultiSpecies Justice project at…
Why are we letting the Reserve Bank make housing less affordable?
It speaks volumes to the lack of ambition in the federal government that it took a first-term senator on the backbench to identify and…
Teena McQueen: in the eyes of the left, conservative women are no better than toxic males
First, it was the patriarchy’s fault. Then, it was the fault of “pale, stale, males”. Next, unsubstantiated historical allegations were…
Guys, your shirt is literally oppressing me
We have come a long way since white chalk exercised the privilege of writing on blackboards. I am pleased to…
Why we must beware American senescence
Sometime in the next five years, the Chinese economy will overtake that the United States. China’s workforce may already have…
Ministers are deciding it’s time to teach the Twits a lesson – and about time
Virtually everyone agrees (other than the psychopaths who populate its sewers) — Twitter has led to a coarsening of debate…
The left’s war against school transparency is a war against choice and quality
NAPLAN scare campaigns about the potential harm of ‘school league tables’ are little more than hot air — often whipped…
Over-egged corona claims overshadow Queensland’s Easter, make authorities look like silly bunnies
Less than a fortnight after Queensland Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeannette Young promised Queenslanders there would be no more citywide…
The real Dark Mofo scandal? Its search for shock over substance
Dark Mofo is one of a few — if not the only– arts festival in Australia that still could be…
Whatever happened to responsibility?
In 2009, I became aware, via media reports, of the death of David Iredale, a perfectly fit and healthy 17…
The hills are alive with the sound of white supremacy
The story of the present times is the never-ending race to out-idiot each other on the way to the bottom: The…
Body politics
It’s my observation that most women come at politics from a fundamentally different perspective than men – as they do…
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Kudos to Senator Ralph Babet and to One Nation for opposing this tyrannical abomination
