A grim benefit of the schools' closure has been the opportunity for parents' to observe the Left's brainwashing of their kids. While my son's assignments purport to promote a mastery of English, the lesson plan's naked agenda is the promotion of identity politics, all rooted in the presumption that facts and history can be re-shaped at will to serve ideological ends

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Australians have received 100 Victoria Crosses: 96 to the Army and four to the RAAF. Sixty-four were awarded in World War I and 20 in WWII. That the Royal Australian Navy has never been awarded a VC is an injustice made all the more galling by the latest sad chapter in the fight to see the heroism of Teddy Sheean and others finally recognised

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To the extent the populace can be persuaded to remain fearful, leaders will remain popular as resolute protectors of human life. But once the realisation gains traction that the WuFlu's lethality has been much exaggerated and lives trashed for no good reason, opinion will turn swiftly against those who imposed 'cures' far worse than the disease

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After the utter humiliation of the 7-0 decision by the nation's highest court, the Cardinal's persecutors and their media handmaidens savoured a much-needed morale boost when the royal commission's three redacted sections were released. Like so much about this witch hunt's travesties of law and journalism, they were kidding themselves

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Politicians have self-exculpation in their DNA, so don't expect anything resembling a coronial inquiry into the decisions and actions that have done so much to kill the economy. Instead, count on the various state and federal health officers to be garlanded with medals as our leaders claim credit for saving millions of lives

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New Zealand has had no new cases of coronavirus for more than a month after its strict lockdown began, which makes PM Jacinda Ardern's legislation allowing police to search homes without warrant all the more reprehensible. Could it be that she loves power more than she fears the Wuhan flu?

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Rather than face the hard decisions for which they were elected, politicians ceded responsibility to public health officials who set to work with a sledgehammer where a scalpel was required. The immense post-COVID pain we must endure is the bitter fruit of political cowardice's endorsement of unfettered bureaucratic zeal

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Unlike the US, this nation's birth went unaccompanied by the smell of gunpowder. Perhaps that is why we uphold the Broad Arrow tradition and submit so meekly, swallowing whole whatever 'expert opinion' the State assembles to justify its decrees. From ruinous climate change policies to the COVID-19 panicdemic, aquiesence is perhaps our most notable trait

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Before my wife and I went cruising we had taken what seemed all the appropriate precautions, checked the government's advisory website and accepted the cruise line's assurance we'd be perfectly safe from the Wuhan wog. That proved to be true, but wandering the Pacific in search of a port to accept us was another matter

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I'd like to replace my stereo with a unit made anywhere but China but it seems I have no choice, as these days they all come from there. Yes, I'd prefer not to enrich the country that unleashed the Wuhan flu and then lied about it, but until Apple and other outfits pull out, if they ever do, I'll just have to swallow my disgust

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