That the demoted attorney-general would claim a triumph in the resolution of his libel action against the ABC is understandable. His political career has been, if not wrecked, certainly shunted into a siding, there is to be no vindication nor reversal of calumnies, and his ABC tormenters remain defiantly and loudly unchastened

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Viking helmets are fetching and widely available, plastic ones as well as metal. Were I to buy one, and still more wear one, it would cement my new identity. Who could doubt me? I have blue eyes, surely a clincher, and I sometimes use one of the rowing machines at my gym. By current standards, what better credentials could I need to file AHRC complaints about anti-Norse racism?

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You needn't be a professional art critic to appreciate the skill and the power Johannes Leak poured into his entry, a portrait of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. Indeed, as this year's competition demonstrates perhaps more than any previous year, being a luvvie arbiter of merit obliges the specific exclusion of what is beautiful, good and worthwhile

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Cabals of unnamed 'professors' attempting to silence him, the miraculous discovery of Aboriginal textile technology no one else has ever seen, possum skin cloaks of time-warped provenance ... yes, the lips of Australia's leading and most richly rewarded fauxborigine are moving yet again and the lies grow ever larger

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The term ‘illegal logging’ keeps popping up in media coverage, especially at the ABC and The Conversation, despite a court having ruled there is no shred of substance to such criticism, as harvesting operations are approved by a government agency and subject to detailed pre-planning, in-field supervision and post-harvest regeneration. Yet the lies never stop

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The Reef scientist JCU has spent vast sums to silence shows no sign of the stress he has been under for far too long, not least when the university spent another fortune to overturn the initial and sweeping ruling in his favour. Lesser men might have given up, but not Ridd. His resolve remains unshakeable as he awaits his day before the High Court

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To claim the abuse of women and children in Aboriginal communities has been 'learnt' from white society, a popular meme just lately, falsely suggests violence was unknown before the First Fleet. If things are to get better, the first step must be to replace convenient myths with facts. Then, finally, we might get somewhere

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At what point does it become the moral and legal duty of scientists to speak out when an issue involving the integrity of science arises?  As a moral obligation, always. Yet from GBR researchers who know better, hardly a peep about the dubious claims and temperature readings of colleagues bent on promoting the 'climate crisis' narrative

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Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka made a perfectly reasonable and sensible call for international borders to be reopened as soon as practicable, only to be howled down as a threat to public safety and the common good. What a pity she runs an airline and not a government

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If you can make a fact-pattern fit the shape of your screwball ideology, then reality is a mere distraction. Such has been the template Hamas operatives once more have lavished on the eagerly gullible -- or is that mischievously partisan? -- Western press: ravenous Jewish wolves vs. innocent, peace-loving unarmed Palestinians

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