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Our universities and more…
I suspect a fair few readers are pretty incredulous about the whole Peter Ridd saga at James Cook University. Ridd…
Deft diplomacy beats foreign aid
Two recent incidents have called into question the role of Australia’s foreign aid program. Indonesia raised eyebrows last week, after…
The great undiagnosed dysrationalia epidemic
I have long wondered why really intelligent people, like Malcolm Turnbull, say, and others, fail to see how irrational it…
Time to end the closed shop of ideas at university
Imagine, if you will, a parallel universe in which the ANU accredits the Ramsay Centre. The Centre produces a mission…
Sick of news
We’re sick of news, apparently. I can’t say I’m particularly surprised: If you feel like there is too much news…
What Tony Abbott really meant about western civilisation
Because we can criticise episodes of the abuse of power by Western nations or the descent to nonsense by those…
Feminists ride the judicial power wave
Everywhere you turn there is a culture clash over the sexual revolution. Consent laws are currently being reviewed in NSW,…
Jordan Peterson and the “homo liberatus”
Like many young men who are inclined to the right, I have recently become a fan of Jordan Peterson. I’m…
The true minimum wage
Talking about a minimum wage is not the same as discussing increasing wages or increasing standards of living. These are…
Meanjin’s #MeToo snafu goes nuts
It’s clash of the virtue signallers over in the left corner – and this time it’s beyond parody. Here is…
Why is the ANU afraid of what made us great?
The Australian National University is so ashamed of our own cultural heritage that they have refused to offer a degree…
Virtue-signalling is in the bag
Today is World Environment Day. And to celebrate the occasion, Australians’ favourite oligopolies — Coles and Woolworths — are doing…
Paul Ramsay’s dream should be realised in a private institution
The Australian National University has cut ties with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation (Paul Ramsay’s posthumous project for the…
How feminism is failing Vikki Campion
A quick look at coverage of Barnaby Joyce and Vikki Campion’s supposedly tell-all interview confirms two things. Firstly, Joyce is…
Minimum wage hike is no boon for many
Late last week the Fair Work Commission recently increased Australia’s minimum wage to $18.93 an hour. Minimum weekly wages are…
The double standards of our cultural czars
If you were still in any doubt as to there being an unwritten double standard currently operating throughout the Western…
The indoctrination factories may be less effective than we fear
Chat to any spirited teen and it’s clear schools are like medieval villages run by humourless priests. Independent thought threatens,…
Questions for Alexander Downer
It has been a few months now since “The New York Times” first reported on the curious story how an Australian diplomat…
Pope Francis the Inevitable
Just the other day another juicy bit of Pope Francis ‘table talk’ hit the media to wide acclaim. Popularly endorsed…
Not free to choose
I once watched a speech on the nanny state by Brendan O’Neill who said that he didn’t like the term…
The ANU fails western civilisation
Manning Clark must be mightily vexed from wherever he now exists (as an admirer of Soviet Man, Manning did not,…
Dear Dr Greer, please shut up
I’ve always been a Germaine Greer fan-girl. Her books ‘The Whole Woman’ and ‘The Female Eunuch’ changed my life. Germaine…
The great rock ‘n’ roll show off
Right now in Facebook world, they’re running the Facebook Greatest Album Challenge and it keeps cluttering up my wall. Nominate…
The moral and economic case for tax cuts
It is difficult to find anyone in politics willing to make a case for income tax cuts for anyone considered…
The beast of corporate virtue awakens
Diversity and Inclusion. Tolerance and Respect. Gender Equality. These are the sacred creeds of the new corporate world. They’re also…
