Andrew Stone’s important new book lays out an economic agenda that is coherent and comprehensive, yet politically achievable over the next three to five years by a federal government with the resolve to implement it. Order your copy here. Addressing immigration, the housing market, higher education reform, federal‑state relations, energy policy, workforce participation, welfare reform, […]

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Today, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews did another of his star turns before the Melbourne press corps, announcing that he would be granting his subjects a number of reprieves from the arbitrary, largely unexplained and all too often capricious rulings on what is and what isn’t permitted. As of tomorrow, for instance, those who reside within […]

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Marc Hendrickx, author of of The Right to Climb Ayers Rock, has lifted his jaw off the floor to address Google’s compliance with a Parks Australia request that it black out, so to speak, a virtual tour of the monolith. He writes: Not happy with ignoring the wishes of past owners who encouraged visitors to […]

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On Tuesday an autistic teen became lost, and remained lost, near Warburton on the bushy fringe of greater Melbourne. That evening, when the alarm was raised, local volunteers turned out to search for the lad. Despite the would-be volunteers having extensive knowledge of the local topography they were told their help wasn’t needed and ordered […]

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At The Conversation, editor Misha Ketchell makes the sort of pronouncement you might expect from a former nob at Crikey! and ex-Media Watch scourge of all that is not politically correct. Beneath this headline — ‘Making sure we acknowledge Indigenous knowledge‘ — at the taxpayer-supported site where academics can bolster their tally of publications by […]

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The highly readable vivisection of author Bruce Pascoe’s compendium of errors, misrepresentations and misquoted sources depicting Aborigines as sedentary agriculturalists with ‘skills superior to those of the white colonisers who took their land and despoiled it’ is available from Quadrant Books. With the ABC pointedly ignoring any and all critiques of Dark Emu‘s fantasies as […]

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Life can be most unfair, and few would be more aware of this than former Western Bulldogs ruckman Luke Darcy, who was cruelly stiffed for a Brownlow Medal in 2002. By every other reckoning — those of his fellow AFL players and Football Media Association, to name but two — he was that year’s best […]

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Sir Robert Peel is remembered as the founder of London’s police force, which set the model for upright, community-based policing. Apart from being the reason English police officers are know as ‘Bobbies’, he was also the source of nine guiding principles formulated in 1829 and subsequently adopted by civilised nations across the world. Nowhere in […]

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You couldn’t make this up. In what is to be hoped will be the near future, Melbourne University Press will be publishing  Australia Before Conquest: An Assessment of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu by the anthropologist and linguist Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walshe. The galleys are now being fitted with maps and other illustrations and, […]

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The IPA’s Gideon Rozner explains to Americans why Melbourne is allowing itself to be ruined by an unhinged Premier, his thoroughly politicised police force and the general population’s supine acceptance of mandated insanity: …The fact that Melbourne has allowed itself to be decimated in the name of the coronavirus is as predictable as it is […]

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