For those who are not ‘woke’ the consequences can be immediate and dramatic. Last year, to cite but one example, the Melbourne Comedy Festival's humourless scolds renamed the Barry Humphries Award because Australia's greatest comedian dared to suggest a man 'transitioning' to a women will always be a man. That was enough to erase a lifetime of laughs

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Those on the Left, being childlike in their unthinking enthusiasms, are mostly republicans and prone to the pursuit of instant gratification, hang the details and consequences. That said, I might -- stress on "might" -- back a republic, but only if the likes of Peter FitzSimons spell out in explicit detail what they have in mind

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Were you to believe the Twitter posse, now shrieking in defence of a fauxboriginal's bona fides, the jackbooted Peter Dutton has targeted the 'Dark Emu' author as some sort of reprise and adoption of Nazi racial laws. Yes, they're really saying that, which probably means the AFP probe is going nowhere

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Very soon in Victoria it will be illegal to counsel a child against taking too big a step too soon to switch genders. Worse than that, it will be an offence to speak out against such 'therapy' in general. If the bill becomes law, radical civil disobedience is the only honourable response

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With the Sussexes bound for periods of extended residency in Canada, or so it seems, how might the Royal Family handle its hundreds of events, appearances and obligations with two less members for The Firm to call upon? Previous monarchs, who spawned entire football teams of heirs and second-rankers, faced no such problems

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Sometimes we are not allowed to hear or see things, not because the artist has committed a crime or sin, but because he has broken the new rules of wokeness. I don't need to approve of, say, Kevin Spacey's alleged off-camera predations in order to regret his character's censorious ouster from 'House of Cards'

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A humble Michigan priest tells a gay parishioner she cannot take Communion while living in sin with her female partner. He is slandered, harassed and made the target of a media pile-on. This time, though, his bishop backed him and church teaching to the hilt. There's a lesson there for Australia's prelates

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Is it too much for victims of Trump Derangement Syndrome to consider, if for only a moment, that the US President has just made the world a little safer by removing Qasem Soleimani from it? Yes, it's probably beyond their ken, but the fact remains that Tehran's tyrants will now be looking often and anxiously over their shoulders

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Branding as 'transphobes' and 'homophobes' those who disagree with hormonally dosed men competing with genetic women works well on Facebook and Twitter, where Left orthodoxy prevails. But on the sporting field, those keeping score know the difference between gender theory and biological reality

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What can charitably said of Christians who identify with leftist politics? The two simply don’t mix because Christians should not be complicit in producing misery. And there is ample evidence, not least in the pleas for Divine intervention of my climate-activist fellow congregants, showing that leftist policies do just that

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