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The crippling cost of workplace mental health claims
Leading businessman Ryan Stokes was recently reported in the press as raising concerns about the rapid rise in mental health…
Whitewash at QUT
The Middleton Inquiry, commissioned by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), is a convenient whitewash of accusations of antisemitism made…
‘It’s time!’ to cease ‘Welcome to Country’ performances
What a farce it was in Canberra for the opening of Parliament… At least five different ‘Welcome to Country’ performances,…
Destroy net zero, save the world
One Nation Leader, Pauline Hanson, introduced a private members’ bill on Net Zero as a Litmus test for the Coalition.…
Democracy demands civic competence, not just teenager passion
For many decades after Federation, the voting age for Australians was 21 – even when soldiers under the age of…
Decline in history education is creating a national identity crisis
History as a subject taught in Australian schools and universities is facing an existential crisis. Fewer students are choosing to…
Institutionalised childcare is failing children; it’s time parents had more choice
The charges of alleged child abuse against Melbourne childcare educator Joshua Dale Brown have sent shockwaves around the country, searing…
Another trainwreck interview from ‘Listening’ Ley on Net Zero
‘You’re going to dump Net Zero, down the track, aren’t you?’ Opposition Leader Sussan Ley was asked the question outright…
Let’s abandon the cult of Net Zero
Climate alarmism increasingly resembles an apocalyptic religious movement. It relies on special revelation mediated by the elites, threatens the end…
Liberals seek to re-connect with business base
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has realised that the business community is to the Liberals what the unions are to Labor.…
Free speech vs. surveillance in the digital age
Australia is quietly abandoning one of its most sacred inheritances: the right to speak freely. In its place, we are…
Albo’s TikTok dilemma
Chinese social media giant TikTok is set to launch a constitutional challenge to Australia’s controversial social media ban for under…
Israel is not the problem, Mr Albanese
Why, when Mr Albanese observed that Gaza is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe, did he immediately blame the…
Senators Price and Cash are the true wealth of the Coalition
You have to hand it to the Labor Party… Last week they scaled previously unexplored heights of hypocrisy. Senator Penny…
From glory to decline, a brighter future ahead
For more than four decades, the people of Iran have not seen diplomatic behaviour based on national interests and the…
Well done, Labor
Congratulations Australian Labor! As directionless as they are, and notwithstanding only managing to earn the vote of fewer than 3.5…
How Spain’s anti-migrant riots sparked speech controls in Europe
The recent antisemitic attacks in Melbourne (and indeed, throughout Australia) and Jillian Segal’s report, Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism,…
Australia’s story is one of success, for now
Australia’s construction industry is hopelessly dysfunctional, damaged by ‘disdain for the law’ and ‘frequent resort to practices of thuggery and…
Albanese is a disappointment, not a surprise
It seems to me that the senior leadership of our government is being very consistent. That does not mean I…
International Court of Justice pulls pin on climate grenade
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen may soon request Attorney General Michelle Rowland to brief the government’s legal team…
It’s time to give 16-year-olds the vote
The UK has ‘handed the vote’ to 16-year-olds in a move that has been seen as Sir Keir Starmer trying…
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