by BETTINA ARNDT – SCOTLAND is currently pushing ahead of Australia in the feminist drive to see more men behind bars but no doubt we will catch up soon. Their latest plan, announced in a proposed criminal justice bill last week, involves…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WOMEN work harder than men. That was the sexist headline for an article earlier this year on The Conversation. Hardly unusual, given that the overburdened woman is a favoured theme with our media intent on singing women’s praises…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT’S now considered to be defamatory to say the thought of male homosexual sex disgusts you. Not just socially unacceptable. But actually leaving you open to legal threats. This is according to NSW MP Alex Greenwich MP –…
by ERIC ABETZ – A VOICE that speaks out of both sides of its mouth is not to be trusted. And so it is with the Voice proposal on which we will need to cast a vote later this year. Having been…
by BETTINA ARNDT – THERE’S much to admire about JK Rowling. Her Harry Potter series inspired generations of children, particularly boys, to read big, fat books and that’s a miraculous achievement. More recently she’s been in the news for bravely taking on…
by DAVID FLINT – IF THE Voice were constitutionally enshrined, not only would we risk making the country ungovernable, but we would also fail to “close the gap”. On past experience, as previously argued here, we would only make matters worse. The…
by DANIEL Y TENG – COMIC legend Barry Humphries would have been shouted down and cancelled in the modern entertainment scene says Australian TV host Kerri-Anne Kennerley. Last week’s death of the Australian entertainer and household name at the age of 89…
by SEAN BURKE – ROGUE Federal Senator Lidia Thorpe doesn’t have mental health issues – she’s just “racist” and “cruel”, according to her father. The MP’s estranged parent, Roy Illingworth, said Senator Thorpe wanted for nothing as a child, but lost the…
by DAVID FLINT – IN THE event that the Voice referendum is successful, one thing is certain. It will not, indeed cannot, close the gap. The fundamental requirement for referendum success is the government come with clean hands, as John Howard’s did…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WHILE our country recovers from the lockdown years, across Australia there are thousands of families who look back to 2021 as the start of a very different nightmare – the year their sons were accused of sexual assault. …
