by SEAN BURKE – ONE of Australia’s greatest tennis champions, Margaret Court, has been characterised on national television this week as a second-class human and “delusional Jesus freak”. Melbourne newspaper columnist Justin Smith, who writes for News Ltd and broadcasts on Fairfax/Nine…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IN A brilliant column recently published in The Australian newspaper, economist Henry Ergas summed up 2023 as “the year of living angrily”. Describing the successive waves of outrage and hatred dominating the year’s public discourse, he made the…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the great memories of a childhood spent long ago, in another world, was my introduction to Agatha Christie and her sublime detective fiction. The much later arrival of the quintessential Hercule Poirot, the equally sublime David…
by NICK SPENCER – AUSTRALIAN doctors are pushing back against gender-neutral and diverse language, warning it could lead to severe errors in medical procedures. One hundred and twenty medical researchers, doctors, midwifery professors and senior clinicians signed a letter addressed to peak…
by SEAN BURKE – AUSTRALIAN organisations who have endlessly lectured fairness and equality have been revealed as being among the most entrenched anti-Israel hate groups. Black Peoples Union, Mums for Palestine and Teachers & School Staff for Palestine are among 30 Australian…
by BETTINA ARNDT – PREVENTABLE murder. That’s how the West Australian radio show promoted their recent program arguing for new laws to criminalise coercive control laws in that State. The Relationships Australia manager interviewed for the program struggled to describe the type…
by JESSIE ZHANG – TRADITIONAL notions of a family – comprising a mother, a father and their kids – are being redefined, according to a recent survey of nearly 6000 Australians. The research reveals a society embracing an evolving concept of family,…
by PAUL COLLITS – DURING Australia’s lockdown madness, innocent citizens were set-upon by politically-controlled police forces with tasers, pepper spray, rubber bullets, physical violence and wrongful arrest. Shouldn’t these same police now man-up to marauding hordes of terror supporters who dominate our…
by BETTINA ARNDT – EARLIER this month, the lawns of Parliament House featured 2500 empty shoes, one shoe for each of the men and boys who die in this country each year through suicide. This powerful memorial event was sponsored by the…
by PAUL COLLITS – THIS morning I received an unnerving email, headed “farewell from me”. It was from the CEO of the Australian Family Coalition, Damian Wyld. He is fighting for his life as the result of a brain tumour, and is…
