Instead of berating fauxboriginal charlatan Bruce Pascoe for misrepresenting pre-colonisation Aborigines as sedentary agriculturalists and inventors of everything from bread to democracy, academia took him unto its bosom and made him a professor! Now, from atop the ivory tower, two academic specialists are raining are on his parade of lies, misrepresentations and pocket-lining scams

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Incitement is the perfect crime for politicians keen to crush dissent, the perfect tool for their compliant police. Consider, for example, Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius' defence of the officers who arrested and charged the pyjama-clad and heavily pregnant Zoe Buhler, an incident he cited as proof his officers don't discriminate. Oh, but they do, they most certainly do

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The votaries of social justice and identity politics have created both a “pseudo-religion” and a utopian goal: the liberation of the the oppressed, as so defined. This can only come about through the destruction of everything we have inherited. Keep in mind, though, that new and perhaps contradictory truths may be introduced tomorrow, and we’ll have to believe those too

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'If democratic culture yields,' he warned, 'no prospect lies ahead but that of increased animosity among pressure groups … In social and cultural relations the law rarely intervenes effectively; the protection of rights and feelings only comes from decency and self-restraint.' Decades after penning those words and eight years since he went to his grave, who now can disagree?

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The important thing is not to let mere facts ruffle COVID-19's Chicken Littles, which explains why the revered 'Johns Hopkins News-Letter' took down and retracted a paper noting that 2020's death rates were nothing out of the ordinary. There was only one thing wrong with that analysis: it was out of tune with the panicdemic's vibe

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The errors identified by the High Court in the Victorian Court of Appeal's majority ruling against George Pell were no trivial missteps. Justices Maxwell and Ferguson were judged to have misapprehended their role in assessing jury verdicts, which a layman might capture in two simple words, 'gross incompetence'. That Victorians have been denied an explanation for this travesty furthers the disgrace

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I don’t think Trump’s return is very likely. Four years is a long time when you are his age. But who else? None of the GOP primaries candidates he faced in 2016 looks up to the job of taking on the media, the swamp, the Chinese, Iran, North Korea, the Palestinians, the Europeans – day in and day out, without wilting

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The urbane, charming and well-heeled Vincenzo Muccioli was generally reckoned something of a saint for his work with Italy's drug addicts. Then the battered corpse of a recovering junkie turned up in a village tip. It soon emerged that things at his sprawling San Patrignano rehab centre were nothing like what they seemed

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The appearance of scuttling invaders in a neat and tidy home can be most disconcerting, but they at least have the decency to slip under the nearest skirting board when the lights go on. The opposite applies to the national broadcaster, which keeps a narrow spotlight on its own slants and passions while leaving viewers in the dark

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If professed conservative politicians won't fight for conservative causes, what good are they? In light of the looming and certain passage of Victoria's Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill, an opposition that won't push back needs replacing with one that will

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