Australia gave the Voice an emphatic, uncontestable NO! What we need now are strong leaders, conviction politicians who will stand up and reject absolutely treaties, makarratas, claims of sovereignty, land rights, reparations, and never-ending guilt-tripping. It’s time for our leaders to step up because the people have spoken

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Could it be the lighting or the toxidity of greasepaint? Whatever the reason, our opinionated thespians are forever ready to treat the proscenium arch as a pulpit and deliver sermons about the virtuous opinions they expect their audiences to embrace. From the STC to Cate Blanchett and the arts bureaucrats who hand out grants, being an insufferable prig appears to be an obligation

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When Israel withdrew from Gaza the resident Arabs embraced their independence by electing an organisation with the avowed aim, recorded in its very charter, of slaughtering Jews in accordance with Koranic instruction.. There is no doubt that if Palestinians were anything else but Muslims, peace would have long since broken out

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Talk about chooks supporting KFC! Instantly, perhaps instinctively, news of the October 7 pogrom brought Australia's collective Left to its feet, cheering the slaughter because, well, they were Jews and that's always enough to justify murder, rape and kidnapping. Don't you just wish those gender-fluid, believe-all-women, pierced and purple-haired progressives could get a first-hand taste of how Hamas rolls

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The likes of Lidia Thorpe and Gary Foley, as they helpfully remind us, see no moral or practical difference between Israel and Australia. So perhaps we should start to wonder what else they’ve got planned, or what they’re willing to countenance in the fight against 'settler-colonialism' closer to home. This is especially relevant as we navigate post-referendum politics

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Let us not fool ourselves. Not everyone protesting in support of Hamas is naive, their culpability extending no further than a useful idiocy. Some thoroughly endorse the Hamas goal of carpeting Israel with dead Jews, and they very much like and approve of what bestial horrors the world witnessed on October 7, 2023

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I argued recently that the mobs chanting 'from the river to sea' would not have been given the run of the streets were they white racists sporting swastika armbands. I thought it an unimpeachable argument, but some readers begged to differ, saying no limit should ever be imposed on even the most appalling libels. Please indulge,me to respond

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The passing of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger marks the end of an era in global diplomacy and strategy. A stalwart in realpolitik with a controversial legacy, his insights are now more relevant than ever before. In the fullness of time, his ghost will return to claim his rightful tribute. He will say that it is overdue

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Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, is the perfect person to lead an economic and cultural rebirth. 'Argentina will return to the place in the world which it should never have lost,' he has pledged., naming the statist status quo as his country's enemy in chief. The next four years will demonstrate if the libertarian firebrand is as good as his word

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Given Farah Khairat is a member of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine, it’s no surprise she holds a one-sided view of the Gaza war.  What is inexcusable is that like-minded teachers have abrogated the responsibility to serve as their students’ guardians, instead indoctrinating them with the Left's politics and doing so with full union backing, There is no need to wonder why many parents are seeking alternative schools free of bias and cant.

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Kissinger worries that all the work he and Nixon did back in 1971-72 to open an effective long-term relationship between Washington and Beijing is being undone and, far worse, that we may well be headed for a Sino-US war. A naysayer might counter that the work he and Nixon did is the very reason very we might be heading for war. First published in September's edition, this analysis is reprised upon news of Kissinger's death

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A number of the Sydney Theatre Company's luvvies took a recent curtain call draped in kaffiyehs, presumably to support Hamas and spray contempt at the Zionist Entity. A subscribers' backlash led to instructions they must never do so again, which marks a definite change from 2008. That was when Daniel Keene's The Serpent's Teeth also stumbled onto Middle East turf and the only complaints concerned a memorably stupid production

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Ridley Scott can give us masterpieces such as Gladiator and The Duellists but also delivers absolute duds, the worst of which until now was 2010's laughably bad Robin Hood. Well that movie need no longer hang its head in shame as Napoleon is an order of magnitude worse. Ahistorical tripe, it will gall military buffs with its ceaseless absurdities while studiously misrepresenting the man whose life it professes to faithfully chronicle

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Accepting Australian values of egalitarianism and freedom of conscience won't happen for Muslim Australians as long as they are beholden to the imams and sheiks, the gatekeepers in Islam. How wide the gulf? Well, the day after Hamas stormed through southern Israel, kidnapping, butchering, raping and torturing hundreds of men, women and children, the front page of the Australian Muslim Times was jubilant

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The anti-Semitic rallies soiling Australia's streets are no expression of dissent but a parading of values inimical to the principles upon which this nation was built. Many Australians will by now be wondering just how fringe is the allegedly 'fringe' group of extremist Muslims? They should also be demanding to know why conservatives gathering at CPAC were billed for police attendance while the protests' Jew haters are given the keys to the city

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Churchill asked his guest what he felt was the most important thing he had ever written. 'White Christmas,' was the reply. Churchill, perplexed, gave up and turned to someone else. It was only later that he was told that through a mix-up it was the composer Irving Berlin who had been invited to enjoy lunch and the wartime Prime Minister's company

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Israel was attacked, as was the United States by Japan. There is no basis for thinking the Hamas terrorists running Gaza will stop their aattacks, just as there was no reason to believe that Japanese aggression would stop at Pearl Harbour. Israel is therefore entitled to wage war until it has won total victory, as did the US and its allies. Sadly, there is no upper limit in the rules of war on the headcount of dead civilians

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It’s a good thing that 165 Australian journalists, led by the tribes at The Guardian, ABC and Nine, have outed themselves as supporters of Israel’s destruction. As others have noted, now we not only know who they are, we also get yet another lesson in the inherent bias that marks the Fourth estate's self-proclaimed priests serving at the altar of truth

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A chance find in a bush op shop proved not only a bargain but an irresistible invitation to ponder the life and achievements of the scientific genius who gave our planet's regular visitor its name. In some ways that is a pity, as the comet is where, for most of us moderns, knowledge of the astronomer and polymath begins and ends. There was much to the man than that

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This remarkable, if slightly flawed, ticking-timebomb of movie by John Frankenheimer, one of Hollywood’s finest old-school directors and a pioneer of the modern-day political thriller, wasn't well received when released in 1977. At a distance of decades, and especially after the 9/11 massacres, its prescience in foreseeing a painstakingly orchestrated terror attack on American soil is, like the film itself, much easier to appreciate

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In his latest book, Fact and Fiction, Nicholas Hasluck draws upon the diaries he kept while serving as a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. These provide not only a picture of judicial life but also an account of writing Dismissal, his novel about the final days of the Whitlam government. What follows are thoughts and recollectionss on the events of and before November 11, 1975

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Having found myself caught in the middle of an angry, anti-Semitic demonstration in London -- a rally replete with Hamas flags and calls for the elimination of Israel -- it is impossible not to look upon Australia in a kinder, more appreciative light. Compared to the existential crisis that is now gripping much of Europe since the cataclysm of October 7, Australia is a haven of sanity and stability. We have much to be thankful for

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To qualify as art, it must be government funded -- but it must not express any gratitude for that funding by delivering anything able to impress or delight a normal Australian taxpayer. Instead, proper tax-funded art should challenge and provoke middle-class normies, preferably to the point of making them feel sick

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Himmler, executioner of Jews, wrote of the extermination program, 'This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and is never to be written.' That was the point about that Final Solution: it was such a shameful business that it had to be kept secret. Not so with Hamas and its proud Einsatzkommandos, whose cause is widely respected in Ireland, the only European nation to erect a statue in honour of a Nazi collaborator

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