EXASPERATED voters are increasingly questioning changes to Australia’s Marriage Act as Malcolm Turnbull’s prized social re-engineering policy dangerously divides the nation. With homosexual rights activists – both inside and outside parliament – progressively trampling mainstream values, a growing number of once-sympathetic Australians are finding their voice.
WE ARE now being told that it was Donald Trump’s fault that the mainstream media missed the story that the Wuhan virus probably escaped from a military-controlled laboratory. They even claimed that anyone who suggested this was plausible, as I did over a year ago, needed medical attention. As they do anyone who concludes, as I do, that the presidential election was rigged through flagrant breaches both of scrutineering and of the Constitution.
LEFT-wing Liberals are in a tizz as new Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce pledges support for coal miners and farmers. In a stirring speech to federal parliament on Tuesday the new National Party leader sent radical Liberals – as well as their “progressive” Labor mates – scrambling to protect their pet climate projects.
MELBOURNE University is set to finalise its new “Gender Affirmation Policy,” which will ban speeches, behaviours, or activities suspected of posing “potential harm” to transgender people at the university. When enacted, the policy will allow people claiming transgender rights to choose any bathroom facilities that most closely align with the gender they identify with.
EXTREMIST Liberal MPs have told federal Attorney-General Michaelia Cash that religious freedom comes a distant second to the distinct rights of homosexuals. While the once socially conservative Liberal Party continues its hard lurch to the Left, its Greens-influenced social agenda is being force-fed to all Australians – without so much as a political argument.
RADICAL Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg has publicly rejected safeguards for children accessing irreversible sex change operations. Responding to efforts by One Nation this week to protect children younger than 18 from undergoing genital-mutilation procedures, the NSW senator instead chose to side with Labor and The Greens.
THE essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” highlights the concept of aura, where a person or object has a presence greater than itself. Written in 1936 by German Marxist Walter Benjamin, it demonstrates that mass-produced works – such as photography, cinema, etc – have less aura, less presence, about them: an actor on-screen has less aura than the actor in real life, a book that is handwritten has more aura than a book that was printed by a machine.
THE most effective way to deal with “disgraced” former prime minister Malcom Turnbull is not to expel him, according to Liberal Vice-President Teena McQueen. Ms McQueen was responding to recent motions drafted by several Liberal Party branches to expel the embittered former PM.
THINGS have indeed fallen apart for the lost, snookered souls of the Australian electorate. We are slouching, disoriented, disgruntled, unmoored and clueless about where next to place our votes. The centre, or “club sensible” as the late and much missed Christopher Pearson termed it, has not held.
AUSTRALIAN Education Minister Alan Tudge has given universities until the end of the year to enforce a freedom of speech code, threatening to use legislation if they refuse or cannot implement it. “You cannot pursue truth without freedom of expression. You cannot create knowledge without freedom of academic inquiry,” Mr Tudge said in a speech to the Universities Australia conference in Canberra on Thursday.
