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Victoria’s treaty is weaponising ancestry

5 August 2025 10:06 am

Victimhood is assumed, intermediaries are rewarded

Australia’s social media ban is a slippery slope

4 August 2025 10:18 pm

The road to a surveillance state is paved with good intentions

The dangerous delusion behind recognising a Palestinian State

4 August 2025 9:43 pm

The phrase ‘having a screw loose’ has perhaps never been more appropriate than when describing the scramble by some Western…

The rot of antisemitism has gone mainstream

4 August 2025 6:23 pm

I love this country. I always have. But after the events of the past 48 hours, I’m no longer sure…

From Munich to Australia

4 August 2025 12:04 pm

For more than three years, Iranians living in Australia have held protests across various cities in solidarity with the Iranian…

Victorian Labor promises to legislate idiocy

4 August 2025 11:37 am

The debased socialist Allan government in Victoria has effectively said to employers – leave the state and don’t bother coming…

The tragedy of Gaza

4 August 2025 1:32 am

Peace begins with the release of hostages

Australia’s nuclear blind spot

4 August 2025 1:20 am

The GenCost 2024-25 report, published annually by CSIRO in partnership with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), has become a…

Child protection isn’t political

4 August 2025 1:02 am

Last Tuesday, July 29, was a poignant opportunity for Members of Parliament to strengthen Victoria’s broken Working With Children Check…

The forgotten terms of good and evil

3 August 2025 9:23 pm

Today, that moral clarity has been replaced with moral relativism

Free speech has nothing to do with pro-Palestinians blocking traffic

3 August 2025 3:18 pm

The First Amendment to the US Constitution enshrines free speech, including the ‘the right of the people peaceably to assemble,…

Australia is losing itself to activism

3 August 2025 10:38 am

The decision, delivered on Saturday morning, came just 24 hours before the demonstration – expected to draw thousands – is…

Is it time we elected judges in Australia?

2 August 2025 7:57 pm

Despite the best efforts of legislators and police, ordinary Australians are being held to ransom by activist groups that, in…

Trump’s tariff wins? It’s FAFO, stupid

2 August 2025 7:18 pm

If you fear what Trump might do, that’s the whole point

New York has become the epicentre of useful idiots

1 August 2025 8:11 pm

From the DMZ, Korean Peninsula: July 27 marked the 72nd anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. In response, a series…

Farewell to the Australian Dream

1 August 2025 5:05 pm

Without homes, why should Gen Z care about Australia’s future?

Do you care, or just want to blame Israel?

1 August 2025 2:46 pm

We all say we care about hunger – especially when children suffer. And we should. But beyond the headlines about…

Everyone’s shouting, no one’s listening?

31 July 2025 2:03 pm

The Jeffrey Epstein football is still being kicked around the political playground, with passes to and fro, but no goal.…

The crippling cost of workplace mental health claims

31 July 2025 1:36 pm

Leading businessman Ryan Stokes was recently reported in the press as raising concerns about the rapid rise in mental health…

Benchmarked into oblivion

31 July 2025 12:09 pm

NAPLAN is not so much a mirror as a house of mirrors

Whitewash at QUT

30 July 2025 6:55 pm

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

30 July 2025 6:55 pm

What a farce it was in Canberra for the opening of Parliament… At least five different ‘Welcome to Country’ performances,…

Simon Stiell: the one-man climate disaster lectures Australia

30 July 2025 5:32 pm

Welcome to the UN’s fruity dystopia

Education nation

30 July 2025 5:16 pm

The great equaliser becomes the great disappointment

Democracy demands civic competence, not just teenager passion

29 July 2025 2:19 pm

For many decades after Federation, the voting age for Australians was 21 – even when soldiers under the age of…