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Why on earth shouldn’t Tony Abbott visit George Pell?
On Monday Channel Seven News aired one of those ‘gotcha!’ news stories beloved by the MSM. The person ‘caught in…
Good schools need more than money: parents
Parents are generally satisfied with how much money their child’s school has, but they don’t agree with how it is…
The left’s no longer a cause, but a new religion
What we are witnessing in the culture wars is not a fight between left and right. Instead, it’s a religious…
Climate change – as it really is
The most important and useful essay this year on climate change is an op-ed by Dr Judith Curry written for…
Unadulterated crap
The team at The Conversation — motto: academic rigour, journalistic flair — clearly believe that their shit doesn’t stink. So…
When journos join the thought police, God help us
Is 2019 the death of satire? Because it’s most definitely the death of comedy. A comedian’s role used to be…
‘Tis the season for Jihadi Joviality
Two people are dead. Three seriously injured remain in hospital. ‘Tis a timely reminder that the season for Jihadi Joviality…
From effect to emergency: the great climate rhetoric crisis
How old are you? I’m greenhouse old: I remember when it was all called the “greenhouse effect”, seemingly a lifetime…
Cancel culture’s double fault against Margaret Court
There’s a new phrase du jour to describe methods in current use by the aggrieved and disaffected, those that feel called…
From Moscow to Tony Abbott, via Annika Smethurst’s underwear drawer
Edward Snowden’s dad and a mate of mine are on the same page: Ed Snowden is “the greatest American patriot…
True equality, ideology – and PC priorities
Extremist ideology, in any form, can never sit harmoniously with true equality. By its very nature, extremist ideology places some…
Clem goes gooey over dead white male
Just when I think Clementine Ford couldn’t get any more hypocritical she has managed to outdo any previous effort. At…
Sacha, free speech trumps censorship in fighting lies, you clown
Late last month actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen made waves when he spoke at the Anti-Defamation League summit. In his speech…
How Pauline Hanson became Shanghai Sam in drag
The CFMMEU is to Australia’s industrial relations system what China is to the West: a bully with too much money…
Why ‘progressives’ are going nowhere
As the Labor Party, following its unexpected loss in the recent federal election, is forced to question the progressive worldview…
If we can’t trust big government, how can we trust it with religious liberty?
Ten days ago, Attorney-General Christian Porter confirmed at the National Press Club “religious hospitals and aged care providers will be…
Forget the Deep State, it’s the Shallow State that’s the big issue
As one of my friends is fond of saying, one man’s perversion is another man’s great night. The same can…
An American explains Thanksgiving: it’s a lesson in economics
As an American living in Australia, it can be hard going at times – especially now. No sumptuous turkey dinner…
The ABC’s in a PC pickle
Political correctness is out of control. You know it, I know it… and, it seems, even ABC diehards know it. …
Let’s be better than the left dealing with different opinions
The story goes that a student of philosophy was asked in an exam to prove a chair which had been…
What’s woke this week?
Animal rights and feminist film criticism have stirred up wokeworld this week and, as we predicted last week, the run-up…
Clive James isn’t dead. He’s just off learning something new
There must be poets writing today who can’t remember a time when Clive James wasn’t dying. Indeed, his capitulation to…
Healthy, safe, quality lives matter more than an Indigenous ‘voice to parliament’
Much has been written about the demand for an Indigenous voice. While such an idea is necessarily political, I wish…
I love a man, er, Green in uniform
It’s going to take a long, long time to ever forget Greens Party leader Richard Di Natale’s 2016 spread in…
Rebels with all the wrong causes
No one has been glueing themselves to the streets the last few days, but it doesn’t mean that the X-men…
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