Beer-sodden Western Australia's police shooting up secret sites, Kangaroo Island ferry passengers deriding Aborigines and the island's residents according the, ahem, proud indigenous visitor a 'bitter' reception -- is there no end to the Melbourne University professor's gift for getting himself oppressed?

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Until opinions aren't censored and their advocates de-platformed, until law and order is highly prized, until jobs are a priority, and until education and hard work are widely esteemed, things look bleak for the US. And that means things look bleak here in Australia and throughout the West

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It seems Australian adults cannot be given the facts and then trusted to make decisions concerning what risks they are willing to take.  We have 25 million-plus people, which means that 0.1 per cent of the total population has tested positive for COVID-19 and 0.0036 per cent has died. Yet on bended knee we surrender our liberties

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Heard the Antarctic is melting, especially from a feminist perspective? Of course you have, just as I was once again reminded by the tour guides' commentary on a recent joy flight over the still-frozen continent. Lovely trip, incredible scenery -- and all washed down with lashings of pseudo-scientific bilge

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For too long now, laws have eroded free speech in Australia, and the indigenous Voice would see that liberty further constrained. Of the numerous objections that can and should be raised, the prospect of a nation divided into those who can air claims and those who will find it in their best interest to remain mute is perhaps the most insidious consequence

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I watched with a dismay -- nay, disgust -- as Victoria's Liberals either supported or abstained from voting on their state's appalling Conversion Practices Prohibition Act, much as their South Australian counterparts endorsed the vile Termination of Pregnancy Bill. Make no mistake, evil is not merely afoot, it is endorsed by those who should be its most determined foes

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A newly released IPA study looks at a range of estimates for the much-vaunted 'new green jobs' those spruiking an energy-poor future insist will burgeon all over. What it finds is that not only will they fall well short of replacing the jobs at risk, they will transform for the worse Australian lifestyles and lives

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To the Left, all change is 'progress', even when harmful, degenerative or regressive. Conservatives, on the other hand, believe history is instructive, and ancient boundaries should at least be understood before they are moved, let alone demolished. In a few words, conservatives appreciate that our forebears were fallible, but not fools

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Readers might have noticed the 'getting' of Craig Kelly is well under way. As if on cue -- do gallery hacks just sniff the air and home in on one particular target, or are fresh riding instructions issued weekly? -- the ABC, Nine, the Guardian are all piling on. Not to miss out on the fun, Wikipedia's editors are giving Kelly a dose of the bias they honed in casting shadows on George Pell's innocence

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Most young Australians have been spoon-fed the ‘invasion = colonisation’ and ‘frontier wars/genocide’ mantras from primary school through to university. Education is a powerful thing, and whoever controls it controls the future. Is it any wonder, amid a declining appreciation of what it means to be Australian, the likes of Bruce Pascoe make out like bandits? 

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