Predictably, but not less galling for being so, an upcoming gathering of conservatives in Sydney, the CPAC conference, has come under attack for — yes, you guessed it! — homophobia, Islamophobia, gynophobia and assorted etceteraphobias, which is the way the Left rolls whenever those with non-progressive perspectives attempt to air their views, even if only […]

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If you didn’t laugh you’d cry, as they say, and few things capture that sentiment better than the look-at-me antics of climate-change crusaders. Fighting for a clean, green world in a polar bear suit? Go ahead, enjoy a snigger and try not to think about the years of school-approved brainwashing that produced what can sometimes […]

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As readers of Quadrant Online’s Doomed Planet reports well know, climate-change science is far from settled. The ABC’s online environmental roundsman Nick Kilvert is of another school entirely. Just four years out of university and after only two years on the job, he is very much the climate catastrophist. Over the weekend, in a piece […]

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Those who resent being forced to underwrite the ABC often ask just why we need a government-owned broadcaster. One answer, courtesy of Triple J, is to examine weighty issues of the moment — such as how to engage the services of a prostitute: There are so many reasons why someone might want to hire a […]

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Russiagate prober Robert Mueller testified yesterday on Capitol Hill for a total of five hours. Or perhaps he testified twice, which would be a reasonable assumption in the light of two diametrically opposed accounts of his performance. Were you to invest faith in the report of ABC Washington bureau veteran Zoe Daniels, the Russiagate inquisitor’s […]

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In just three months, Australians will be denied the right to climb Ayers Rock. As Marc Hendrickx has written, the ban has nothing to do with safety, indigenous tradition, sacred beliefs or anything but the influence of a small, vocal and much quoted body of activists and compliant officials whose compulsion is to control the […]

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Columnist Joe Aston, pen dipped in acid, on a well-known pirate impersonator: Speaking of decriminalising the profession of journalism, perhaps let’s not be so hasty. See, we’ve just stumbled upon the latest drivel proffered to The Sun-Herald’s long-suffering readers by its red-ragged columnist Peter FitzSimons. There he goes again, shamelessly plugging Lisa Wilkinson’s sagging ratings, […]

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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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