by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the great memories of a childhood spent long ago, in another world, was my introduction to Agatha Christie and her sublime detective fiction. The much later arrival of the quintessential Hercule Poirot, the equally sublime David…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT ISN’T often that I refuse to put on the Boxing Day Test. Not even the decades-long jingoistic commentary of the Channel Nine commentators which the Packer revolution spawned could keep me away, let alone the increasingly progressivist…
by NICK SPENCER – AUSTRALIAN doctors are pushing back against gender-neutral and diverse language, warning it could lead to severe errors in medical procedures. One hundred and twenty medical researchers, doctors, midwifery professors and senior clinicians signed a letter addressed to peak…
by PAUL COLLITS – YOU always know when the cricket season begins in Australia. No, it isn’t the cracking of willow on leather, or even the endless, jingoistic marketing of the summer game. Rather, there is suddenly in-your-face virtue signalling. On all…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – AUSTRALIA’S dismal 2022 international education comparison proves, once again, how substandard our schooling system has become. Despite additional billions invested and countless government inquiries and reviews over the past 30 years, the latest Programme for International Student Assessment…
by PAUL COLLITS – LIBERTARIANS and conservatives have often disagreed – and they still do. The divide may be growing. The “fusionist” project of postwar conservatives – mainly in America – of figures like William F Buckley and Frank Meyer, has all…
by GABRIËL MOENS – QUEENSLAND University of Technology has recently removed the word “merit” from its hiring process. In a radio interview, the University’s Vice-Chancellor Margaret Sheil, communicated her concern that the university’s hiring strategy could be biased. Waging war against excellence…
by PAUL COLLITS – MEDICAL totalitarianism has become a test case of, and model for, the permanent subjugation of formerly free people in formerly liberal societies. Ramesh Thakur – of whose recently published book, Our Enemy the Government: How Covid Enabled the…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – THE resounding 60/40 defeat of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament is a magnificent result proving how common sense and sanity can overcome Woke ideology intent on dividing the country. The referendum result also proves how…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT WAS mentioned in the later stages of Australia’s Voice campaign that this was our own “Brexit moment”. Along with the almighty defenestration of Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party in New Zealand, it has been a night for the…
