With the cost of so-called ‘morning after’ pill poised to be underwritten and all the usual suspects cheering, recall all those assurances that sex ed would greatly reduce unwanted pregnancy. It didn’t and this won’t

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It is hard to believe, but there was a time when the national broadcaster played its news coverage with a straight bat. Geoffrey Luck was there to witness the corridor feuds and turf wars that saw reporting subordinated to groupthink, advocacy and exclusion

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A poem for Anzac Day: Softly and humbly to the Gulf of Arabs The convoys of dead sailors come; At night they sway and wander in the waters far under, But morning rolls them in the foam. Between the sob and clubbing of gunfire Someone, it seems, has time for this, To pluck them from […]

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What’s wrong with a minute’s silence for those fell? To revisionist academics, it is 60 seconds when their voices cannot be heard.

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The left has long made "lawfare" one of its key weapons, deliberately seeking the courts’ intervention to silence those of whom it disapproves. Given the travesties of science perpetrated in the name of climate change, isn’t it time to give the most dubious practitioners a taste of their own medicine?

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Surrounded by traffic and bathed in the heated exhausts of the tens of thousands of cars and trucks passing by it’s CBD site, the BoM’s hallmark monitoring station on the edge of Melbourne’s CBD leaves much to be desired. So does the BoM’s computer-driven approach to calculating the site’s mean temperature

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There are feminists like Margaret Thatcher who achieve, and then there is the other variety, the sort whose mourning for Britain’s former leader was conspicuously muted. Perhaps they were too busy excusing Julia Gillard’s incompetence to notice their own selective misogyny

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First, the pundits and politicians preferred to blame white, homegrown "patriots" for the Boston bombings. When the identity of the killers emerged, the silence was deafening

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