It's such a nebulous term I can never hear it without Paul Simon’s words coming to mind – ‘the nearer your destination, the more you’re slip sliding away’. If we are never told what this 'reconciliation' is, how will we know when we get there? Looking to the likes of Marcia Langton and Tom Calma for guidance doesn't promise much in the way of enlightenment

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The Medical Board of Victoria chose not to suspend a doctor charged with slavery offences and imposed a mere three-month suspension on another charged with raping a colleague. Compare and contrast those rulings with the lot of Dr Jereth Kok, who has had his livelihood stripped for the 'crime' of posting conservative views on social media

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The case to shut the walking track to the summit of Mount Warning is built on a foundation of lies and faux facts that, were they to be piled one atop the other, would soar far beyond the former volcano's spectacular peak. Once again, at the behest of activists and to the delight of bureaucrats, Australians are being denied and divided according to race and myth

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It is divisive by definition to recognise there can be two or more points of view, which is not a bad thing if people of good will anoint their disagreements with the oil of civility. But when a dominant group insists on its version and silences those who dare to differ in part or whole, as we are seeing today, purges and show trials are not too far down the road

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This not the time for those who should know better to publicly argue for one or other COVID-19 vaccine, not when full and adequate evidence for any such choice is well down the line. What the current moment most definitely does demand is early treatment, especially for the aged and most vulnerable, and for this two cheap, proven and off-patent drugs are readily available -- hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin

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No other writer could match the glittering shrapnel of his journalism, all of which fell outside the realms of Clive’s formal literary career and saddled him with an unfair reputation as a brilliant lightweight who never quite fulfilled his dazzling potential. The remedy for this misconception is simple. Forget the image. Read his work

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As the fires of recent decades have shown, especially last summer's inferno, mismanagement of the bush has become very nearly a diabolic art. But not to worry, champion of wind turbines, eco rorts and rent seekers Matt Kean has saved the Blue Mountains' Wollemi pines from further threat. Such are his powers it required but a simple stroke of his mighty green pen

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Why the US Supreme Court decided Texas lacked standing to challenge voter fraud in other states will never be known beyond the justices' curt refusal to take up the matter. With hindsight's benefit it was the moment Donald Trump should have accepted grim reality and conceded defeat -- defeat not in a bent election but in his doomed efforts to overturn its tainted result

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With the West's leading cultural institutions infiltrated, seized and colonised by the Left, it will often seem to those concerned for their careers that silence is the best policy. That is a mistake, for there are ways to fight back -- ways that, like the West itself, arise from the individual. Take heart. Speak up. Fight back. If not you, who?

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There are obvious differences between Mao’s New Democracy and Xi’s China Dream, and yet they share a key point: the CCP must be the final arbiter of all things under heaven. That ambition is no reason for us to accommodate with our subservience a tyranny that seeks to destroy every independent voice it has encountered on its way to prospective global domination

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What did people expect when a democratically elected president is subject to a torrent of abuse, of unrelenting mainstream media lies, false accusations of collusion with Russia, and an impeachment based on a gossamer-thin excuse to remove him from office?  Did they expect that nobody would become enraged at what many people viewed as the Establishment thwarting a democratic mandate?

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The ABC is scrupulous, when anything supposedly offensive to Aborigines is coming up, in interpolating an unctuous ‘warning’, but never feels obliged to alert Christians that a torrent of blasphemy is on the way, which these days comes in a ceaseless stream. No need to guess what would be in store for any comic who dared sneer at the Rainbow Serpent

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The national broadcaster's Laura Tingle weighed in last night on mobs invading temples of democracy by giving the 1996 assault on Parliament by unionists, Aborigines and assorted rent-a-ferals the once over lightly. Then she was off and running with a barely masticated regurgitation of Labor's latest talking points about Craig Kelly and other designated targets

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Still growing, the post-COVID indebtedness of many countries is similar to that contracted during a world war and it strikes me there are few ways of dealing with it. Rapid economic growth would be best remedy, but recourse to increased taxation and inflation seem more likely. And after that? A fatalism without contentment that can easily turn to insensate rage

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It seems there is a masochistic streak in the minds of some who profess to be conservatives, notably those who so despised Donald Trump they are cheering his political demise. Let's see how they enjoy four years of humiliation, submission, censorship and 24/7 abuse at the hands of the Left

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As is her wont, the ABC's chief pursuer of George Pell has been speaking yet again about herself and how wrong it is that her quarry was exonerated by the High Court's 7-0 decision. It is a revealing interview, not least for demonstrating that a journalist who boasts of having obtained a law degree grasps so little about justice, the courts and, for that matter, principled journalism

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Although no laughing matter, it reads like a comic novel -- Vladimir Putin's assassins attempt to silence a political foe once and for all by sprinkling his underpants with Novichok. Not only does the victim survive, he extracts the full details of the plot by posing as an intelligence service debriefer and demanding to be told how the hit was planned and why it failed

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Instead of berating fauxboriginal charlatan Bruce Pascoe for misrepresenting pre-colonisation Aborigines as sedentary agriculturalists and inventors of everything from bread to democracy, academia took him unto its bosom and made him a professor! Now, from atop the ivory tower, two academic specialists are raining are on his parade of lies, misrepresentations and pocket-lining scams

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Western culture’s right to survive derives not from its similarity to all other civilisations but from its superiority to them. Were it not superior, why are Western societies preferred by non-Westerners as models to emulate and as places of residence, relaxation and protection?

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Incitement is the perfect crime for politicians keen to crush dissent, the perfect tool for their compliant police. Consider, for example, Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius' defence of the officers who arrested and charged the pyjama-clad and heavily pregnant Zoe Buhler, an incident he cited as proof his officers don't discriminate. Oh, but they do, they most certainly do

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After helping to whip up a public envi­ronment that would see an innocent man imprisoned, Walkley winner Morris-Marr read with dismay that the Herald Sun's leading writer, Andrew Bolt, had called her work 'a witch hunt' and a 'smear'. Having received a very mild dose of the opprobrium she visited upon George Pell, the fearless investigator suddenly devel­oped very thin skin

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The votaries of social justice and identity politics have created both a “pseudo-religion” and a utopian goal: the liberation of the the oppressed, as so defined. This can only come about through the destruction of everything we have inherited. Keep in mind, though, that new and perhaps contradictory truths may be introduced tomorrow, and we’ll have to believe those too

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For a whitefella to make a comment or have an opinion about Indigenous issues is considered ‘cultural imperialism’ and therefore inappropriate, even ‘racist’, by the city-dwelling, university-educated, grant-fed elite. Meanwhile, as abused children take their own lives in remote Aboriginal communities, their only response is to blame white privilege

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'If democratic culture yields,' he warned, 'no prospect lies ahead but that of increased animosity among pressure groups … In social and cultural relations the law rarely intervenes effectively; the protection of rights and feelings only comes from decency and self-restraint.' Decades after penning those words and eight years since he went to his grave, who now can disagree?

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