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 Queen’s Birthday on June 14 for most of Australia, September 27 in Western Australia and October 4 in Queensland, annoys many in the political class.
Just the fact that it exists enrages pretend republicans who prefer a fraudulent imitation of the current model, a politicians’ republic, rather than honestly basing theirs on the world’s most successful republic, the United States.
IN AN effort to sure up its invasive political influence, the Left-controlled South Australian Liberal Party has moved to expel up to 550 conservative members. Almost every person who joined the division in the past month – about 150 – is now facing expulsion due to their Christian conservative values, according to Sky News.
IN LATE 2019, when George Pell was still in prison and his ultimate exoneration still far from certain, the ABC’s intrepid reporter, Louise Milligan, called me a “conspiracy theorist”. I had published an article about the embedded radical (#MeToo) feminism in the Victorian justice system and the “fembots” involved in the Get Pell campaign.
BEFORE jetting off to the G7, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed the USAsia Centre in Perth on June 9. His address entitled “A world order that favours freedom” is an ambitious attempt at demonstrating that “liberal democracies work” considering that, in many countries, freedom is an elusive or vanishing goal.
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.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has backed changes to the Australian Constitution that will permanently embed identity politics at the heart of the nation. The Premier this week revealed that she’s in lockstep with the Left-posturing ABC, Sydney Morning Herald and other low-circulation media organisations.
UNTIL recently the sanity of anyone suggesting that the Wuhan virus could have come from a laboratory was put in issue … it is fascinating when reality catches up.
