by FRED PAWLE – OUR civilisational decline is now fuelled by unrestrained hatred and the hypocrisy of disinterested elites. One doesn’t hear the Ernest Hemingway Law of Motion mentioned very often these days. About a quarter of Australians are now either on…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the many unforgivable things the Liberals did in government was to allow the censorship of free speech, executed ironically by Peter Dutton’s then Home Affairs bureaucrats. The Liberal Party had got itself into a tizz over…
by FRED PAWLE – POLITICIANS and legacy-media proprietors have good reasons to support restrictions on social media, which have nothing to do with children’s safety. Orwell’s dictum that “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them” was spectacularly superseded not…
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 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 FRED PAWLE – THERE are many lessons the Australian government could have taken from the US presidential election. Don’t be authoritarian, don’t lie to the people, don’t expect a lame incumbent to win and don’t take an abysmal record in office…
by GRAHAM YOUNG – AUSTRALIA is a trailblazer in online safety, after all, we were first in the world in 2015 to establish an eSafety Commission – right? Well, maybe, but so what? Having a Commission is one thing, being “eSafe” is…
by PAUL COLLITS – GOVERNMENTS and corporates want to destroy the internet. They consider it the most dangerous tool in support of grass roots democracy ever invented. The estimable US author Jeffrey Tucker writes at The Brownstone Institute that the censorship machine…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIANS are being told they should only ever get their information from government. According to our political elites, it’s only “the people” who lie. Hence, government agencies and universities (!) will be exempt from Australia’s coming misinformation legislation. …
by DAVID FLINT – ELON Musk is performing an outstanding service for all Australians. He reminds us not only of our heritage as free people, but also of our duty to fight to preserve it. Not long after Captain Cook meticulously mapped…
