You don't need to be specialist in German history to know that destroying books is one of the first steps on the road to totalitarianism, mind control and tyranny. Well now they're doing it in Canada. What a pity Joseph Goebbels is no longer around to enjoy the bonfire

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When climate paranoia dominates one's every waking and sleeping moment the dilemmas are legion. Should I get a cat only to see it perish on our baking planet? Why are tutor's messages written on ravioli? What is Nicole Kidman typing by a billabong? Welcome to the bizarre mindscape of the ladies from Psychology for a Safe Climate

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The official COVID information website advises pregnant 'persons' that COVID vaccinations are without risk, being safe 'at any stage of pregnancy'. How can they be so sure? An April study in the 'New England Journal of Medicine' advises 'more longitudinal follow-up, including ... large numbers of women vaccinated earlier in pregnancy, is necessary to inform maternal, pregnancy, and infant outcomes'

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Scott Morrison departed today for the Washington, where he will thrash out the details of Australia's deal to take the RAN into the nuclear age. It is a laudable move but one that won't see the first submarine arrive for a decade. The PM can remedy that by offering to buy or lease the older but still potent Los Angeles class boats the US Navy is in the process of retiring

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As soon as the idea takes hold that fundamental moral values can be abandoned as impediments to the progress of a political agenda, the descent into amorality and barbarism begins. That is where the woke progressive Left now is and where it intends to take every institution and individual whose resistance it overcomes

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Despite their self-proclaimed success in the 'war' on COVID-19, Australia's premiers give no indication they are willing to terminate their emergency powers or decrease the use of health directives. Instead, the political establishment has capitalised on public fear and the complicity of a docile, unquestioning press to pursue the gradual consolidation of unchecked rule

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Education bureaucrats and their enabling politicians have turned the purpose of education on its head, from teaching kids about the world to turning them into horrid know-nothing woke activists. That goal, now coded into Australian education’s DNA, is laid out without shame in Cool Australia's classroom guide to keeping young Australians seated during the National Anthem

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Some have commended US General Mark Milley for calling a Chinese counterpart to share his absurd notion that Donald Trump might launch a surprise attack, among them The Australian's Greg Sheridan, whose loathing for Trump blinds him to the obvious: Milley, whose career has seen him fail relentlessly upward, is a soldier of the woke school, more adept at attacking 'white rage' than winning wars

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Political correctness, and it’s most recent manifestation, cancel culture, are not about ridding society of unfair discrimination. Rather, both are critical aspects of the cultural-left’s long march to subvert and overthrow capitalism, Judeo-Christianity and Western society. Thing is, they only get away with it if we remain mute as the bullies and barbarians pour through the gates

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Every year sees campus feminists ramp up the pressure on administrators to 'believe the victim', which invariably means the presumption of guilt is hung around the necks of young men who are then denied open, fair and unbiased hearings. With craven university administrators keen to get activists off their backs, more young men will be chewed up and spat out, their lives and plans ruined

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