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.
FORMER deputy Liberal leader Neil Brown has walked away from the Party, saying the government and its cheer squad “stand for nothing”. Mr Brown, who was elected deputy federal leader under John Howard in the 1980s, has cited last month’s “socialist” budget along with reverse racism as his tipping point.
WITH a handful of exceptions, today’s politicians seem determined to ensure that Australia never achieves its potential but instead declines into a backward, poorly educated nation, falling increasingly behind our neighbours to the north. This is to dishonour those who built this nation and especially, those who fought and died for her.
FEWER Australians wanted to buy products made in China, preferring locally made goods, according to new figures. The number of Australians more likely to buy products made in China fell to 21 per cent, down 9 percentage points, according to market research company Roy Morgan.
