The Left
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The AHRC's public face is ugly enough. Look under the rock and it gets much worseOctober 5, 2024
14 mins
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The agency that hounded Bill Leak into an early grave isn't fussed by its staffers' support for HamasOctober 4, 2024
20 mins
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Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't trueSeptember 19, 2024
16 mins
The latest
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Our new G-G let slip an avalanche of heartfelt concern that recast our 236 years of indifference and guiltSeptember 17, 2024
9 mins
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The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humaneSeptember 16, 2024
13 mins
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The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.September 9, 2024
18 mins
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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.September 8, 2024
12 mins
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If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.September 6, 2024
6 mins
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By referring to eye-witness accounts, I happen to believe that I am on firm ground. It is impossible to believe that the early Christian martyrs went to their deaths in service of unsubstantiated hearsay.September 1, 2024
6 mins
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This is the paradox of the War Against the Past: those who are waging it are, inadvertently, denying themselves the capacity to win. For if your past is evil, if your centuries-old story is defined by bitterness and bad faith, how can you possibly hope to redeem yourself?August 29, 2024
13 mins
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Put shortly, a progressive, left-leaning Sydney-based artist visits her archaeologist brother in Bolivia. She is told that Che Guevara fought his last campaign in the wilds of Bolivia and that one of his lieutenants came from the utopian colony nearby founded by William Lane and other Australian radicals. Inspired by what she has heard, and well aware of Che Guevara’s popularity on university campuses in the United States and Australia, the progressive artist decides to enter a portrait prize for an image to be installed over the entrance to the New South Wales Gallery. Her image, linked to Che’s supposedly heroic campaign, will symbolise the victory of progressive thought down under.August 29, 2024
25 mins
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It was a wet weekend. Why not play a climate game instead of trying to game the climate like almost everyone else? Governments and international agencies are playing them too. Monetizing the atmosphere at our expense has never been so much fun.August 27, 2024
10 mins
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Today, Peter Hartcher, who is reporting from America, has gone to press with his big wrap on the Democratic National Convention. It’s a very positive piece about the re-machined Kamala HarrisAugust 25, 2024
6 mins
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Seventy-five years after the old empire became the new Commonwealth, there’s no more like-minded group than the CANZUK countries. Why not build on that affinity by making all trade between them tariff-free? Why not work towards mutual recognition of trade and professional qualifications?August 25, 2024
9 mins
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If, like me, you detest as patronising and condescending the ritualistic 'acknowledgements of country', you simply cannot get a senior administrative position in an Australian university—though an unwillingness to sing the national anthem or celebrate Australia Day would probably not hurt you one iotaAugust 25, 2024
18 mins
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As the Dutch political scientist Cas Mudde said some years ago, 'Populism is an illiberal democratic response to undemocratic liberalism'. When the voters insist that something isn’t working, as the recent EU Parliament election demonstrates, it is this commitment to raw democracy that manifests itself at the ballot boxAugust 25, 2024
10 mins
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Cameron happens to be an Australian comedian, which means his relationship with the sound of laughter is possibly a little strained. As is widely known, our local comic sources some years ago replaced jokes with studiously inoffensive tribal recognition indicators (sourdough bread is a constant) and various manifestations of woke.August 24, 2024
9 mins
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I'm glad we no longer have laws against blasphemy, because the law is such a blunt instrument that it cannot readily discern the secrets of the heart. I think it's true that if any aspect of Islam had been parodied in the Olympics opener, even accidentally, a fatwa could follow and those responsible might have paid dearly. Christians should be glad that, by and large, we can take such things on the chinAugust 21, 2024
5 mins
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After her ridiculously biased, inept, expensive and slickly misleading three-part effort to nail Donald Trump as Putin's puppet, it's hard to see how anyone could take seriously anything she says or claims. Well anyone not part of ABC management that is, because the national broadcaster continues to indulge her unhinged editorialising, as evidenced by her recent fan-girl interview with Nancy PelosiAugust 20, 2024
20 mins
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If, as Plibersek claims, Raygun 'gave her all', she was clearly not up to the standard required to represent this nation at the elite level, regardless of whether or not she was the best we had. And by the way, Tanya, Steven Bradbury won gold because he made it to the final in a gruelling, highly competitive sport. Please don’t lump him in with a kangaroo-hopperAugust 17, 2024
3 mins
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Our peak science bureaucracy wants 'Indigenous scientists' to pair with their Western counterparts and, in the testimony of Aboriginal academic Professor Bradley Moggridge, 'have their knowledge seen as equal'. Honestly, you would laugh out loud if it wasn't such a threat to genuine learningAugust 15, 2024
16 mins
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Perhaps I am being too harsh because, like Raygun, I have been kept awake at night by the 'significant gap in scholarship on hip-hop, breakdancing, and autoethnographic explorations of Deleuze-Guattarian theory'. The World Economic Forum, surprisingly, hasn’t cottoned on to this yet, so she is is filling a big gapAugust 15, 2024
6 mins
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Whatever internal actions the ABC takes to promote ‘reconciliation’ is its own affair. But someone needs to remind the national broadcaster that it it exists to inform and entertain all Australians, and to reflect the nation as it is not what its virtuecrats think it should be. An end to confected 'indigenous' names for cities would be a good startAugust 1, 2024
11 mins
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The government of Premier Jacinta Allan is re-writing a slather of public-land acts with the intention of placing Crown land and state parks under Aboriginal control. The day is not far off when a High Country picnic will require 'indigenous permission' and, inevitably, a feeJuly 18, 2024
9 mins
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Perhaps better than any other Greens politician, Mehreen Farqi unites the qualities of gormlessness and verbosity. Bear this in mind because not a word of what she had to say on Insiders ought to surprise in the least. Nor for that matter the tepid and pathetic reaction of the Prime Minister, who one can only suspect is reluctant to say a harsh word about the Greens as the prospect of a minority government looms largerJuly 11, 2024
6 mins
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Joe Biden and his enablers have put it about, as they always do, that Trump parades a cavalcade of lies whenever he gets near a microphone. Take a closer look at their big debate and it soon emerges that neither man uttered anything worse than candidates always doJuly 7, 2024
15 mins
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Many have been slow to recognise the war being waged by 'progressives' who control much of our bureaucracy, media and corporations. Their corrosive influence has elevated postmodernist absurdities about race, gender and animism over history, science and freedom of speech and movementMarch 28, 2024
13 mins
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In one of Australia’s greatest but typical electoral misreadings, Marcia Langton threatened a ban on welcome-to-country ceremonies -- and, just to sweeten the deal, a ban on her own conference appearances. At that moment, it is reasonable to suspect, the No vote against the Voice increased exponentially in all states and territoriesDecember 17, 2023
9 mins
