Leftists would no doubt get rid of Anzac Day if they could, which makes you wonder, since they’re in charge of just about everything, what fresh public holidays we would see. Dismissal Day, the feast of St Gough, is a certainty, the first on a long list of woke and certain inclusions

Leftists, in my experience, are not the kind to be inconvenienced by principles, so we can expect them to stand ready with imaginative justifications for denying others the same exemptions they grant themselves. To observe one of the most current examples, visit the departure lounge at your local airport

The solitary confinement in which Cardinal Pell languishes, like the authorities' refusal to let him celebrate the Mass, strikes me as venomous spite. I am reliably informed, for example, that any letter addressed to 'Cardinal Pell' will not reach him in his cell. In Victoria, officially sanctioned humiliation is passed off as justice

One doesn’t wish to be cynical, but the bushfires have been a gift to the Marxist fantasists who manipulate the international climate conspiracy for their own ideological ends and the useful idiots who parrot their apocalyptic predictions in the media and elsewhere

A humble Michigan priest tells a gay parishioner she cannot take Communion while living in sin with her female partner. He is slandered, harassed and made the target of a media pile-on. This time, though, his bishop backed him and church teaching to the hilt. There's a lesson there for Australia's prelates

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has so assiduously promoted gender equality in its own workplace that its 'leadership team' of five is entirely female. To paraphrase George Orwell, all are equal in Equal Opportunities but some are more equal than others

The only practical way to halt this invasion of hilltop bird mincers would be to hang on to as many reliable, coal-consuming power stations as possible, but doing that would require politicians with the courage to tell the climate-panic industry to back off

The real innovatory value of mastering -- apologies for the inherent sexism of 'master' -- the Inclusive tongue in which Victoria's public servants are being immersed lies in its application to gender sensitivity, which, along with climate, is now considered the most pressing moral issue of our time

How many older women, seduced by feminist anti-maleness in the Greer–Friedan years, ditched their husbands and are now sour and lonely? How many girls schooled in 'sexual politics' will find relations with men more contractual than loving? Has it occurred to the radical Sister Joans of this world that the secular leftism they promote is the sworn foe of the faith they profess?