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Barry Maley

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  • One Nation No Longer Indivisible

    Current events in America are notably unsettling, from Big Tech's assumption of the power to determine what can and can't be said in the public square of online fora to the nation's ramshackle electoral system and growing doubts about the mental competence of the man it placed in the Oval office. All of this and more raises worrying issues for Australia

    Aug 20 2021

    6 mins

  • An Honourable Estate?

    Parenting and child-care payments cost many millions of dollars, giving governments a large stake in the stability or otherwise of families. Would it not be sound policy for the state to deem de facto couples subject to the same rules of separation as divorcing, formally married couples?

    Jul 23 2015

    7 mins

  • The Burka’s Veiled Insult

    The cloth that obliterates the face sends a message of separation and rejection, so it is no surprise that Australians of non-Muslim backgrounds are appalled. By blacking-out and demeaning womanhood,  an implanted culture bares its contempt for a tolerant and easy-going host

    May 16 2015

    7 mins

  • The Aboriginal People, the Constitution and the Future

    The Prime Minister has declared his support for a proposal […]

    May 01 2014

    27 mins

  • A Liberal Response to the Decline of Marriage

    Liberalism, or liberal-conservatism, in its classical British sense, is both […]

    Dec 01 2011

    32 mins