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Why did it take the ABC 25 days to say ‘sorry’ for torture fantasy?
For nearly a month, the ABC’s leadership sat in silence while the video remained live on their platforms. They moved only when the lawyers moved.
Before we say Amen to change
Western Australia’s Parliament considers removing the Lord’s Prayer from the Legislative Assembly
How times have changed for uranium exporters
The Whitlam government established the Fox Inquiry in 1975. Two reports were released in the following year. One recommended that…
A resurrection in bad faith
Tim Wilson is back on the frontbench. The Liberal creed is not, and the One Nation voter can tell the difference...
If you think AI is a fait accompli…
AI is not a software update. It is an industrial process of extraordinary energy intensity which Australia might not be able to provide...
Why you shouldn’t shrug at New Zealand’s greyhound racing ban
The significance of New Zealand’s ban extends far beyond the racetrack, perhaps even all the way to the family pet
Has Holocaust memory lost its moral compass?
There are places where history should impose a particular seriousness upon us. Mauthausen is one of them. A concentration camp…
Labor is not building anything. They are tearing society apart…
Human society is different from other animal societies because of humanity’s most important idea: legitimate government. Before the beginnings of…
The word-bankers
Increasingly, the establishment in its various guises has stopped fighting over what to do and instead chooses to fight over who owns which words
They knew. They published it. They mandated anyway…
Australia’s pandemic alibi is ‘nobody could have known’. The proportionality test was in the statute. The safety caveat was on the regulator’s own website.
The A-Bombs were necessary, and the most merciful option
As the anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks in 1945 arrives, many commentators will argue they should never have been…
Where did the resourceful Aussie spirit go?
The internet provides all the knowledge in the world, so why is our society un-skilling?
Chris Bowen is trying to lock Australia into a Net Zero future
The longer Labor is in power, the harder it will be for the Coalition to unpick renewables from the grid
The alibi of skill
Spain must answer for what it failed to stop. Canberra must answer for what it decided...
Cheaper electricity?
Chris Bowen promises it’s on its way to you soon...
The hidden risks of low-deposit housing under Labor
The Albanese government’s housing policies have been sold as the great Australian dream made accessible. Five per cent deposit schemes,…
AI psychosis
We all know that the Silicon Valley tech bros are a little detached from reality, but the advent of AI…
The spirit of Cain
I have no interest in whether the ABC was embarrassed, whether it should have pulled the clip...
For art’s sake
A case for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles
There can be no sovereign capability with Net Zero
The Albanese government’s fervour for renewable energy and red tape expansion looms large over the otherwise welcome decision to explore…
Internationalism: where no one is privileged, even in their homeland
Carl von Clausewitz said that war was politics by other means, one method of advancing your interests among many. In…
The education beneath the education
Elaine Ellinger on the formation of the Islamic mind
Vale Rod Liddle
On the sudden and very sad passing of Rod Liddle, who died aged 66 following a short illness: Rod Liddle…
The refusal of rescue
A love for the island A young girl crests a sandstone ridge above a homestead in Tasmania’s bush and finds…
Immigration and national identity
It is entirely legitimate for Australians to consider the potential impact of immigration
