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Air-brushed Islam?
The Islamic Museum of Australia (IMA), lavishly funded by state and federal grants, presents an air-brushed fictional picture of Islam…
Big spenders: AEC reveals cashed-up Teals
The Australian Electoral Commission’s Transparency Register has revealed how much money the Teal Independents spent at the recent 2022 Federal…
Should Australia freeze out foreign buyers?
Canada has banned foreign ownership of residential real estate for two years to ‘cool’ an overheated housing market. Official information…
(Don’t) vote like a woman
In Vote Like a Woman, a substack article posted prior to the American midterms, Naomi Wolf urged female voters to reward…
Local government or bureaucratic symbolism?
One of the great things about our federal system is that local governments ensure local issues are dealt with by…
(Still) forgetting Ken Elliott
And still, he remains forgotten. Dr Ken Elliott, a Perth missionary doctor held captive by ‘Emirate of the Sahara’, a…
After Biden beat Obama
Now that Donald Trump has declared his candidacy for the US presidency in the 2024 election, it is relevant to…
‘Let us save lives again’ say vaccine-free healthcare workers
Healthcare workers who were forced to leave their employment when they declined Covid vaccinations say it’s time to drop the…
Dan Andrews: Facebook’s sugar daddy
It’s election week for Victoria, so we can expect some pretty strange stories to pop up out of the political…
NZ hate speech laws: legislation is no antidote to hate
Time has been called on overhauling ‘hate speech laws’ in New Zealand. After sitting in Labour’s manifesto for years, and…
Cashed-up, come-hither politics
Getting the nation moronically into debt to placate Covid panic merchants may be the best thing the Liberals have done…
Land release: the solution to the NSW housing crisis?
Are rising housing prices putting the future of Australian society under threat? Edmund Burke famously said that society was a…
Democrat Dan – copying notes from the US midterms
Two dominant key messages helped the US Democratic Party avoid the predicted ‘red wave’ in that country’s mid-term elections a…
G20 leaders declare global digital health network
Following the conclusion of the G20 summit held in Bali last week, a joint declaration was issued which, among other things,…
FIFA’s ignorant hypocrisy
‘We have been told many, many lessons from some Europeans, from the Western World. I think for what we Europeans…
Australia’s Woke World Cup
As the child of proud ethnic immigrants, some of my best memories come from watching my country’s national football team.…
Dear Victoria
Dear Victoria, This is it… The approaching state election is what the rest of the nation has been anticipating for…
Climate fools are a corporate pandemic
Really, this should be a weekly column, but I fear writing about fools that often might do my head in.…
Cop27: turning climate into an economic weapon
Before our leaders get carried away with the Cairo Climate Conference 2022 and start imposing economic losses on those (me…
Conversion therapy legislation: trick or treat?
‘One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I don’t know.’ I am…
Don’t trust me, I’m a doctor
I was recently accused of lying. This was a little hard to swallow as it was over a directly referenced…
What does America want?
The time for speculation is over. Donald Trump has formally announced his intention to run for the Presidency in 2024…
Dan Andrews’ shame: the Melbourne we remember
I had hoped I wouldn’t be drawn to re-read David Satter’s It Was a Long Time Ago and it Never Happened…
Eco-crazy: where does this end?
One of the few bright spots during the early phase of the Covid pandemic was the sight of a smiling 99-year-old…
A hill to die on
In July 2021, when ‘vaccine passports’ were still a crazy conspiracy theory, I wrote an article for The Spectator Australia arguing that Australia must…
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