by MONICA O’SHEA – RUMBLE CEO and founder Chris Pavlovski says he has received increasing “censorship” demands from authorities in Australia, and New Zealand. He said the video-sharing platform noticed a “dramatic increase” in global censorship. Australia’s eSafety commissioner does not have…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – THE comment by Foreign Minister Penny Wong that a “secure and prosperous future” for Israelis and Palestinians could only come with a “two-State solution” is a crass domestic political statement. Not only does the announcement break the long-standing…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – WHEN he was prime minister, the Liberal Party’s John Howard regularly warned colleagues against hubris. I suspect that he was reminding himself as much as his fellow MPs. Hubris was a cardinal sin for the ancient Greeks. It…
by DANIEL Y TENG – AT ONE point in modern history, Australia was a world leader in promoting individual freedom and enterprise. The accession of Robert Menzies, who would be the country’s longest-serving prime minister, ushered in almost two decades of continued…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – THE spate of recent elections should be a wake-up call to the State divisions of the Liberal Party across Australia. The result in Tasmania – where the Party is endeavouring to form a minority government – is but…
by ALFRED BUI – NSW’s Labor Government has introduced legislation prohibiting all LGBTQ conversion therapies performed by religious communities. Church groups, however, have warned the move will serve to affirm medical practices that mutilate children. The bill has bias toward affirming gender-transition…
by REX WIDERSTROM – A WA emergency room doctor has been found guilty of professional misconduct after giving a series of speeches and interviews critical of the government’s COVID-19 response. He also questioned the safety of the Pfizer vaccine. An experimental therapy…
by GABRIËL MOENS – THE perennial discussion about the reading ability of Australia’s primary and high school children reached yet another milestone with the publication of a report by the Grattan Institute. The report, The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child…
by NICK SPENCER – THE Future Fund – Australia’s sovereign wealth fund – must remain in its current independently-managed form, as opposed to liquidated to fuel more government spending on net-zero, according to the Centre for Independent Studies. On January 30, the…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – THE revelation that 35 per cent of recent applicants failed the Australian Citizenship Test is of concern. According to the Department of Home Affairs, data reveals more than 100,000 failed citizenship tests over 14 months between June 2022…
