In August 2015, when AFL star Adam Goodes was being booed in stadia from coast to coast, Anthony Dillon injected a note of reality into what had become an entirely predictable exercise in theatrical outrage and ostentatious victimhood. Today, with a new documentary re-orchestrating the chants of 'racism!', Anthony's essay warrants a reprise

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When Professor Peter Ridd won his sweeping judgment against James Cook University, the immediate word from the university was that it would further drag out the fight with a costly appeal. Who decides to pursue such bloody minded folly and what are their motives? Rather than re-examine the evidence at great expense, it's the university itself which needs a thorough investigation

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The real goal of the Voice was always more than simply allowing indigenous people representation to the Australian parliament — which they have had, anyway, almost continuously since 1967 through successive government advisory boards. It is to further the 'unfinished business' that will never end

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You could say that bringing people to trial on the basis of one uncorroborated accusation is unsafe or unsound. That is a nice legalese way of putting it. It is, in fact, potentially dangerous to our very way of life. Were Cardinal Pell not in solitary confinement you could ask him for his insights

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The former Greens leader has seen the light and come out against a new Tasmanian wind farm. If he can see the folly of the immensely expensive and massively unreliable symbols of the renewables rort, surely policymakers can appreciate it too? Alas, that isn't anywhere near happening

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The national broadcaster operates a very large Washington bureau and you have to wonder why, given that so much of its 'reporting' is the distilled essence of anti-Trump coverage from newspapers and other media which, were he to cure, cancer, would accuse him of putting nurses out of work. Correspondent Connor Duffy's coverage of July 4 celebrations is sadly typical

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The likes of Mark Zuckerberg have us wrapped so tightly around a virtual finger that Chris Hughes, who co-founded Facebook, is calling for the social network to be broken up. That's certainly a good idea, not least for anti-trust reasons, yet pointless in the grand scheme of things. The changes wrought have gained their own dreadful momentum

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The Green New Deal would shut down US industry and exports. Unemployment -- at six-decade lows under Trump -- would skyrocket. Open borders would likely see another ten million poor immigrants within a year. These prospects make a coven of congresswomen very happy indeed

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Is there a malaise that reflected in the turn from the colours of optimism and hope to the dreariness of a non-colour traditionally associated with depression, death … and the coming of night?

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True, it will be difficult to thoroughly cleanse sacred scriptures of admonitions to spurn what once were seen as sins and now are celebrated. What we want is a religious purity commission headed by someone with a freewheeling moral compass and no outdated attachment to freedom of speech. Oh, and they will need to be very brave as well

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