by MONICA O’SHEA – AUSTRALIA’S eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has confirmed her agency will enforce the Parliament’s impending ban on under 16s accessing social media. Social media corporations could face fines of $49.5m for failing to take reasonable steps to prevent…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – BOB Hawke once infamously referred to a senior citizen as a “silly old bugger” before he inevitably became one. But it seems bureaucrats and some private enterprise operators want to make life ever more complicated for this significant…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – ONE of the most disturbing examples of Woke indoctrination is the way indigenous history, culture and spirituality are lauded – while always remaining beyond criticism. Western culture, meanwhile, is demonised and condemned as Eurocentric, patriarchal, binary and oppressive. …
by PAUL COLLITS – I HAVE just witnessed one of the funniest things I have seen this year. It features US podcaster Joe Rogan, so there is a multiple expletive alert. Rogan thinks Joe Biden voted for Donald Trump. He even “guarantees”…
by FRED PAWLE – THE Australian mainstream media marked the death of the government’s Censorship Bill today by censoring debate about it. As hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens celebrated the announcement on Friday evening that the government’s Bill will fail to…
by ROGER CROOK – BEN Chifley was no ordinary Prime Minister; he had come through the Labor ranks the hard way. A train driver by profession and driven (no pun intended), like his predecessor John Curtin, he had experienced a world war,…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – LIBERAL Leader Peter Dutton has warned that Australia must have a US ambassador who can stablise relations between the two nations. Mr Dutton’s comments come amid speculation that former PM Kevin Rudd could be nearing his final days…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT IS an unusual week when I have scarcely noticed a US presidential election. That’s what happens when one is close to losing a child, for the second time in a year. No one expected the progressive Democrats…
by FRED PAWLE – OUR accents notwithstanding, it used to be difficult to tell the difference between Australians and Americans. We watched the same TV shows, listened to the same music and shared both a natural optimism about life and a scepticism…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – CHANCES are Australia could be facing another disastrous bushfire season like the one we experienced five years ago, which from a personal perspective came too close to home. I wrote about the night, November 8, 2019, when we…
