We now live in what many call a ‘post-Christian world’, with a considerable body of opinion insisting the benefits bestowed on society took place despite Christianity. That amounts to a scandalous misreading of history -- a misconception refuted by, to cite but one example, William Wilberforce and his supporters' crusade against slavery

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Bushfires have always needed three things: dry fuel, hot winds and a spark. Now there's a fourth ingredient, according to warmists, who have peppered news coverage of the recent blazes in NSW and Queensland with oracular pronouncements that catastrophic climate change is the catalyst. Pity they don't mention lousy forest management, irresponsible development and a wilful ignorance of history

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The Trump administration's bid to limit immigrants' access to welfare is one of the most important and reformative initiatives in seventy years. Many trends and movements begin life in the US and ripple out across the world. For my money, and that of all taxpayers, I'm hoping this one finds its way to our side of the Pacific

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The distinguished legal philosopher and jurist, and former Oxford don, Professor John Finnis, shows the three major areas where the Victorian Appeal Court’s majority judgment in the Pell case got it all wrong

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Civility is paramount among people of sound mind and goodwill, a category in which those of the new progressive Left don’t figure. They need to be fought, not reasoned with. Reasoning with a poisonous serpent is useless. You have to chop its head off. It's as simple and straightforward as that

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If Behrouz Boochani had a mantelpiece it would be groaning beneath trophies and prize money, despite the little problem that he is ineligible for want of residency and citizenship to have entered at least one of those competitions. But not to worry! The author of 'No Friend But the Mountains' despises Australia, which for the reviewers and prize-givers of the Left is qualification enough

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When climate huckster Al Gore visited Australia in 2017, he pretty much limited his interviews to the ABC. There can be no doubt the former US vice-president is a pocket-lining charlatan and hypocrite, but he's not entirely stupid. When a green fraud fancies kid-glove treatment, the national broadcaster waits on bended knee, forever happy to oblige

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Denied an election, Boris Johnson could present the No-Deal Bill to the Queen and advise that she withhold Royal Assent. That's one option, with a second being that he delays a trip to the Palace until after the October 31 deadline. All this because a fiercely divided parliament will not bow to the will of those who voted Leave.

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If lowering academic standards in the admission process can be justified in the name of ‘equality’, why not enshrine and apply the same principle further down the line by allowing women to graduate on the strength of grades that would see a man fail. Yet this is the new policy at UTS -- a policy for which taxpayers will ultimately pick up the bill

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'These are the events leading to my unjust and cruel incarceration. Everyone who mattered considered my sole accuser to be credible, and the mere appearance of being credible has been enough to find me culpable. I plead my case to those in the world still possessed of common sense and decency'

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