The Voice will create an elite ruling class of Aborigines seeking to bind the rest of the Aboriginal community to their will and opinions. It is a means to constrain and control, not to uplift and empower. The Liberals, near mute on the subject so far, are honour-bound by their professed belief in liberty and the individual to stand firmly and loudly against it

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Queensland's Labor Government – with support from the LNP opposition – has passed the Health Practitioner Regulation Amendment Bill 2022. This fundamentally reshapes the relationship between doctors, patients and health regulators by granting bureaucrats the authority to endorse medical treatments and shame doctors who beg to differ

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Even if we accept the dubious proposition that early voting does not facilitate cheating and electoral fraud, as its defenders insist, it remains a practice that endangers democracy by encouraging premature decisions. Shouldn't voters be required to wait at least until candidates have faced off in open debate before making their choices?

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The democratic system (aka 'responsible government' and representative democracy) required two things in order to function properly: properly motivated politicians and informed voters.  Now we have neither, and this is why the system is so broken

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A belated recognition of limitations and concerns with respect to genetic vaccines and the consequent failure to impact public health policies has at last begun to seep into the specialist and mainstream press. Better late than never, as they say, but there is much more to be discussed and addressed

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If you take the IPCC and its oh-so-settled scientists at their word there is little chance the world can reach zero emissions by whatever the latest, constantly advancing deadline happens to be. So why aren't Chris Bowen et al building dams and generally preparing for the climate cataclysm they swear is ordained. Perhaps they don't believe it themselves

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In a previous article I made the case why William L. Crowther, Tasmanian Premier, philanthropist and doctor, could well be -- most likely is -- innocent of the crimes and indignities he is alleged to have committed against the remains of Aboriginal man William 'King Billy' Lanne. A review of his life and ideals makes this charge even less credible

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The statue of Dr William. L. Crowther -- Tasmanian Premier, businessman, naturalist and renowned colonial surgeon-- has been deemed 'culturally unsafe' by Hobart City Council. The evidence strongly suggests the reputation of a good man is being besmirched while the real villain goes unmentioned

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In a saner and more disciplined world, Treasury might well come up with several well-defined options to deal with high energy prices, rigorously examine the potential consequences of each, and present the results for the government to decide. We no longer live in that world

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The are worthwhile passages in Age reporter Sumeyya Ilanbey's biography of Dan Andrews, but it is what she skates over or mentions not all -- the iniquitous persecution of George Pell, for example, and the ethical corruption of VicPol brass -- that overshadow what could have been an illuminating examination of Victoria's debt-laden decline

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