by BETTINA ARNDT – THE Australian media pack went into a frenzy last week. They’d finally broken through the legal barriers protecting Bruce Lehrmann from being named as the “high profile” man who’d been accused of rape in Toowoomba, in Southern Queensland. …
by ERIC ABETZ – THE overwhelming rejection by the Australian people of the Voice appears to have emboldened many previously silenced people to push back on the guilt narrative. Be it the enduring of the tiring and wearisome “Acknowledgement of Country,” which…
by DAVID FLINT – IT HAS become clear that talk during the referendum about the Voice being used to close the gap was nothing more than an empty sales pitch. This explains the rejection, after a peremptory and supercilious debate, of urgency…
by PAUL COLLITS – BRUCE Lehrmann is back on the front pages accused yet again of rape. Yes, rape. Queensland-style rape. To be more precise, intercourse without a condom. At least that is what I understand he has, this time, been accused…
by PAUL COLLITS – DESPITE the humiliation of the Aboriginal activist industry post October 14, the forces of revolutionary change aren’t yet done. With more than 61 per cent of Australians flipping the bird at Indigenous exceptionalism, the sinister agenda of the…
by BETTINA ARNDT – REMEMBER how the Brittany Higgins case blew up when a juror brought into the jury room an academic paper discussing the frequency of false allegations of sexual assault? That broke the rules prohibiting jury members from accessing outside…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT WAS mentioned in the later stages of Australia’s Voice campaign that this was our own “Brexit moment”. Along with the almighty defenestration of Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party in New Zealand, it has been a night for the…
by GABRIËL MOENS – IT WOULD be an exaggeration to describe the Voice referendum as Australia’s nadir moment. But Australia has certainly avoided – at least for now – becoming a country divided by race. A successful Yes vote would not have…
by DAVID FLINT – PEOPLE do not often have the opportunity, on the national level, to indicate which of two distinctly different paths they want their governments to follow, especially when the Coalition these days can too often be Labor-lite. With compulsory…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THE Voice debate! Like many Australians I’m over it, and I decided a long time before pre-poll voting, it’s a big No from me. I’m reminded of a question posed decades ago by American physicist and television personality,…
