The bureaucrat’s greatest art is generating further work and extending the empire. All do it, but perhaps none with such aplomb as the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC), whose very existence depends on a steady flow of complaints about this slight or that. The table detailing last year’s complaints can be viewed […]

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The Tasmanian senator delivered these remarks on June 2 in the red chamber Freedom of speech, belief and association of freedoms for which our forebears sacrificed. They understood the importance of nurturing these freedoms. These freedoms have allowed us to explore, develop and nuance ideas, philosophical, political, scientific and religious, amongst others. Today, our society […]

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Kim Cobb is a US climate scientist and one of many who did not take well to the election of Donald Trump. Mother Jones reports sympathetically on the poor woman’s parlous mental state and that of many, many of her similarly afflicted colleagues. Cobb entered what she now calls “an acute mental health crisis.” Most […]

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For those missed it in The Australian (paywalled), this from New Zealnd geologist and academic David Shelley: Climate change is a defining issue of our time, especially for young people who are persuaded that we are doomed unless urgent action is taken on carbon emissions. Activists, with some success, are demanding climate emergencies be declared […]

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US columnist Tammy Bruce writes in the Washington Times of how, no matter what gains “progressives” make, they are never enough to banish the spectre of Bible-quoting jackbooted bigots who haunt the Left’s imagination, inspire its fury and howling mobs. She is speaking of America, but given the all-out assault on Israel Folau and his wife, […]

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Tim Andrews, of the Australian Taxpayer Alliance, makes six points about the persecution of Israel Folau. All are worthwhile but the two below are especially salient: # No matter what you think of the specifics here, there is a wider precedent at play regarding the principle of being able to use someone’s religious opinions as […]

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The entreaties of the Left have persuaded gofundme to suspend Israel Folau’s online campaign to raise money for his legal action against Rugby Australia. Having raised $765,000 from 10,319 people in just four days, the only indication the fund once existed is the notification reproduced above. There are causes and then there are other causes, […]

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From Larry Cahill at Quillette: Imagine your response to picking up a copy of the leading scientific journal Nature and reading the headline: “The myth that evolution applies to humans.” Anyone even vaguely familiar with the advances in neuroscience over the past 15–20 years regarding sex influences on brain function might have a similar response […]

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The late Professor Ian Turner, footy fanatic and Communist, claimed to have heard the best-ever grandstand insult: “You rotten, bloody, poofter, commo, mongrel bastard!” Alas, as noted in an earlier ER post, such language would today see Turner escorted from the ground. As for AFL chief Gillon McLachlan, his political correct soul would endure even […]

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