Every now and then, the ambient bias of the ABC in seeing the greenish Left as the default position of a just and moral society is made explicit in a few unguarded words. Such was the case on Monday’s 7.30, when compere Leigh Sales quizzed Prime Minister Scott Morrison about this, that and many other […]

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The Manning River Times reports the great poet’s funeral arrangement: A funeral will be held for internationally renowned poet Les Murray at Saint Bernadette’s Catholic Church in Krambach on Friday, May 10. Les passed away peacefully on Monday, April 29 aged 80 years, at a nursing home in Taree. Les lived at Bunyah, between Forster […]

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Those who don’t live in NSW or enjoy an online subscription to The Daily Telegraph may have missed the latest column from Miranda Devine, who presents further sad evidence of what happens to young minds when green ideologues masquerade as teachers. As you might have guessed, her topic is Friday’s kiddie climate march. The views […]

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Mark Steyn, like Paul Collits, examines a society increasingly shaped not by politicians but unelected elites. Eighteen minutes not to be missed:

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Was it only nine years ago that the Western Bulldogs’ Jason Akermanis explained how his fellow AFL players felt about showering with openly gay teammates: I have played with a gay player in the twos for Mayne in Queensland in the mid-1990s who was happy to admit his sexual persuasion. He was a great guy […]

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If readers would indulge a reminiscence, let me relate an incident from decades back, when I was working for Fairfax in New York and happened to be taking a late-night drink at a now-vanished watering hole on West 43rd Street, Gough’s Chophouse. A dark and smoky armpit of a joint, it was directly across the […]

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As Essential Reading related a week or so ago, the great Roger Scruton was set up by the New Statesman‘s deputy editor,  misquoted, instantly found guilty of heinous racism by the Twitter jury and summarily fired from a post to which he had only recently been appointed by the purported conservative government of Theresa May. […]

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For want, as yet, of Waleed Aly laying out with his customary attention to nuance how Australians, at least those of the ABC-watching and Age-reading demographic, must regard the recent “irritations” in Sri Lanka, readers might care to consult the writings of another and somewhat less prominent Muslim thinker, young Jake Bilardi. The Melbourne teenager, […]

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Q: When are Christians not Christians? A: When they are torn to pieces by Islamic bombs. Then they become “Easter worshippers” — the term favoured by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and many others in their expressions of sympathy for Sri Lanka. The tweet above, updated by an internet wag, originally went out after the Christchurch […]

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