by SCOTT JOHNSON – AUSTRALIA’S e-safety commissioner – and American-born feminist – Julie Inman Grant has again refused to front-up before the US Congress. She was initially requested to attend in November 2025 by US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan. The…
by PAUL COLLITS – WHY are so many women now leading most of our public-facing institutions and why are they so bad at it? These two questions keep arising for anyone who reads the news. Just look around. The new Archbishop of…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE other day, when one of my grandchildren (optimistically) stated that what separates humans from animals is rational decision-making, I reached for the phone and pulled up one of those excellent videos on the brilliant problem-solving skills of…
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 PAUL COLLITS – WHY the hell is Peter Dutton supporting this obvious Trojan Horse legislation? – The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024. Just when you thought it was safe(ish) to trust the Liberals again, we get this…
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 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 – 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 REX WIDERSTROM – THE woman working to regulate what Australians — and the entire world — can view on the internet was once an employee of the company she’s battling in the Federal Court: Twitter, now called X. US citizen Julie…
by MONICA O’SHEA – RUMBLE CEO and founder Chris Pavlovski says he has received increasing “censorship” demands from authorities in Australia, and New Zealand. He said the video-sharing platform noticed a “dramatic increase” in global censorship. Australia’s eSafety commissioner does not have…
