by DANIEL TENG – AS MAJOR companies opt out of celebrating Australia’s national day, opposition leader Peter Dutton is calling on citizens to be proud of their heritage, not ashamed of it. January 26 marks a public holiday that commemorates the landing…
by ERIC ABETZ – CHANGING the law is not easy. Nor should it be. Serious consequences flow. But surely changing our Constitution should be more difficult as even more serious consequences might flow. In 2016 Australians faced a double dissolution election on…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT HAS been a big week for Nazis and their discontents. First, we had the sad, though not tragic, passing of Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, the German Shepherd. In what was to presage the reactions to the…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IT WAS 2014 when I first heard from Andrew, a young Queensland dad, who was being denied contact with his two young girls. From then on, he wrote regularly updating me on his eight-year Family Court marathon, where…
THE Albanese Government is feeding false “talking points” to Voice activists in an effort to trick voters to blindly support its constitutional amendment. Leftist legal academics have cued up behind the Prime Minister’s reassurances that the Voice changes would ultimately be benign. …
by KEVIN DONNELLY – THERE is no doubt baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 are living in a very different world compared to what they experienced. Australian society, as with others in the West, has undergone a radical change that makes…
by BETTINA ARNDT – A FEW months ago, a few dozen women gathered in a room in Sydney to participate in a Wikipedia “edit-a-thon,” aimed at writing profiles of women in STEM, heaping praise on these academics simply because they are female. …
by DAVID FLINT – PERHAPS the best way to compare prime ministers is by their respect for the constitution. Three are in the news these days, Anthony Albanese, John Howard and Gough Whitlam. While Whitlam, a QC, knowingly played the constitutional delinquent…
by NINA NGUYEN – A FAMOUS British headmistress known for her rigorous enforcement of school rules has said “progressive” teaching is failing students. Katharine Birbalsingh, who has been called “Britain’s meanest headmistress,” said in a speech at the Centre for Independent Studies…
by BETTINA ARNDT – FINALLY, it appeared the Brittany Higgins case was over when the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold, announced last week that the sexual assault charge against Bruce Lehrmann was to be dropped. Drumgold said the reason was…
