As the editor of an independent Chinese-language media company in Australia, I know firsthand the pressure Beijing brings to bear on outfits that do not parrot the official line. For us it has meant intimidated advertisers and lost revenue. For many it amounts to a systematic brainwashing

Abuse of power in the Church, whether expressed as sexual abuse, verbal, emotional or in other forms, is sin. Attempts to deal with abuse that fail to recognise this reality will inevitably be inadequate, will not lead to healing for victims, will not prevent  abuse, will not restore the Church's credibility

US voters will cast their ballots with varying degrees of disdain for either of the rival contenders that a torturous primary-election system has thrown up. Sadly, that choice, between a congenital liar and an egomaniacal dilettante, is also a symptom of the malaise that has eroded the country's very spirit

Should he claim the White House on November 8, the US will reject the obligations of the Paris climate accord. Like him or not in regard to other of his stated goals and policies, a ferocious disdain for the economy-hobbling rent-seekers of Big Wind and the like is a powerful recommendation

I don’t get it. The disdain for Trump by a small, but significant, minority of conservatives cannot be policy-based. Yes, it's true that his positions do not meet the conservative ideal, but there is not the shadow of a doubt they are much closer to that standard than are Hillary Clinton’s

This week Senator Linda Reynolds (left) did something quite remarkable by Canberra standards: she stood up for  free speech and demanded the amendment of Section 18C, the favoured cudgel of the left for beating, bankrupting and generally intimidating all who beg to differ

Taxpayer-funded warmists have no need for sacramental confession to expiate the sins of their wild inaccuracies and habitually incorrect prophecies. As a recent spate of amended theories demonstrates, they just make up new 'facts' and keep those grants rolling in

The pundit class seems to agree that Hillary Clinton, if she did not actually 'win' the first presidential debate, did better than Trump, while online polls suggest the wider public gave the nod to her rival. What's certain is that the Republican has plenty of ammunition at hand for their next two encounters

Desecrate a Bible and it will be acclaimed as 'art'. Depict Islam's founder, even with deference and respect, and expect not merely a riot but expressions of sympathic regret from our cultural quislings. With Christianity under siege on so many fronts, a spirited defence is the only response

If Aborigines are to be written into the Constitution, what is that must be added? More than that, will a few sentences of feel-good boilerplate make the slightest difference in remedying the dysfunction and abuse that marks so many Indigenous communities?

According to a gaggle of activist philosophers, medical practitioners who decline to perform abortions or euthanasia are guilty of putting 'their own personal conscience' ahead of 'patient wellbeing'. Their solution, predictably, is tribunals, career sanctions and enforced conformity

That unfortunate American tendency to shoot presidents necessarily sets more than the wheels of justice turning, it also inspires a morbid curiosity about the factors which might conceivably have inspired their killers. For the medico Spitzkas, father and son,  such quests were their stock in trade

The world didn't know it and neither did I, but Paul Robeson's free concert at the Perth's Midland Railway Workshops was one of his last performances. Today, all these years later, even his affection for Stalin cannot diminish my affection for that rich, deep and wonderful voice

That ABC would stack its Q&A panel and audience comes as no surprise, as that is standard operating procedure at the national broadcaster. But even by those low standards,  alleged climate guru Brian Cox plumbed new depths in bias, bad manners and a compere's partisan indulgence

Pay no heed to teacher unions' pleas for more more taxpayer money, which they hope the voting public will regard as leading inevitably to higher scores and smarter kids. What they won't admit is that Australia's declining test results are born of the the very system and policies they champion

On Saturday the Western Bulldogs -- once and always known as Footscray -- beat the Giants and won the right to contest next weekend's AFL Grand Final, which they last won in 1954. How that first and only flag came to hang at Whitten Oval is a story of footy, Melba and, most of all, of Melbourne

A bomb detonates in New York and reporters fall over themselves to ignore the most likely culprits while suggesting ludicrously improbable alternatives. As here in Australia, the newsroom narrative insists on overlooking the Religion of Peace, but 49% of the population is nowhere near so stupid

The Australian Academy of Science has a new chief -- a woman with no PhD but, rather, the sort of credentials that so often these days seem prerequisites to head any body demanding taxpayer "investment" in its members' pet causes and passions: Labor staffer, warmist and beat-up artist  

The world remains a long way short of '1984', but how far down that road are we prepared to be driven? Or, to be more specific, how willing are we to endure being fed the lies, twisted language and re-written history that are the stock in trade of the Left and its implacable social engineers?

Here we go again, with yet another attempt to animate the island state's moribund economy via vast sums of public money poured into the tertiary sector. Alas, until 'development', 'innovation' and the profit motive stop being regarded as dirty words, it will be good money after bad