by MATTHEW OGILVIE – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed constitutional change to give Aboriginal people a “Voice to Parliament” is well-intentioned. However, as the proverb says, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. Albanese’s Voice proposal challenges the very foundation…
by DAVID FLINT – IT HAS been rightly said that Australians are a wise constitutional people. They achieve what the politicians could not, “a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation”. Our two major Parties are competing to satisfy…
by NICK BURY – THE huge number of elected NSW Liberals who are now part of, or identify with, the aggressive LGBTQ movement is truly astonishing. Given that the percentage of LGBTQ Australians is about three to four per cent at most,…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WE WERE once told feminism was about equality, creating a level playing field where women could take their rightful place in the world. I happily called myself a “feminist” after reading Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, ironically whilst…
by PAUL COLLITS – GEORGE Orwell, sadly much quoted in these times (because everything he warned about has pretty much come true), called it “doublethink”. A simple definition is as follows – “the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as…
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…
by PAUL COLLITS – ’TIS the season to be … thinking about Australians of the Year. Every good awards system has an alternate of the vox populi kind. Think the People’s Choice. Or the Bald Archies. Well, perhaps we should have a…
by PAUL COLLITS – IMPERIALISM has been going on ever since man discovered transportation to cross the high seas. It reached its peak, coincidentally or not, in the age of the industrial revolution, the enlightenment and the invention of modern capitalism. We…
A CANBERRA mother of nine has questioned the motives behind the gay marriage movement – saying it had always been about the imposition of a radical agenda on unsuspecting Australians. Freelance journalist Angela Shanahan said that, five years after the Marriage Act…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – A RECENT report investigating governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic criticised the States’ mismanagement and over-reach. Even more frightening and unsettling is the way politicians, with the help of health experts and the media, trashed essential liberties and…
