Sarah Chidgey, of the Attorney-General's Department, infamously demanded that Tony Abbott explain why he should not be required to register as an agent of foreign influence after addressing last year's CPAC conference. Has Ms Chidgey asked the same of business leaders and fellow public servants who have enjoyed China Matters' hospitality? If not, why not?

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Here's a quick question: name an institution not now in the hands of the Left? Certainly not universities, the media or public service. And don't dare cite the police as upholders of one-rule-for-all law and order, not when they're fining petty violators of social-distance diktats while standing idle as protesters in their tens of thousands ignore the same rules

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Once the coronavirus was allowed to enter the country, Australia's public health response was excellent. But as Taiwan's experience shows, a little more good sense at the border would have made drastic measurest unnecessary, not to mention the ongoing gutting of the economy

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The lesson of history is that once a city loses businesses and jobs, once its economy collapses and once it becomes best known for crime and general mayhem, it cannot be put back together again. Once grand and thriving, the Motor City is living -- and dying -- proof of that

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The figures of the past -- especially the tyrants, racists and bigots -- can be our greatest teachers. Consider, for example, Germany’s very public and thorough preservation of its shameful Holocaust history. Mobs bent on destruction don't appreciate this, but the cost of obliterating the past is far more than than that of damaged bronze

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If the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford must come down, then the Martyrs Memorial honouring three out-of-favour scholars -- Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley, all burned at the stake in 1555 -- will be next, followed by the incineration of materials in the Bodleian and Ashmolean. Once started, these things acquire an unstoppable momentum

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Like Alice we have fallen down a rabbit hole where logic, rationality and common sense no longer apply. The comment attributed to Descartes ‘I think therefore I am’ has been engulfed by the Woke generation's ‘I feel therefore I am right’. And then they smash things

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Liberal democracy lost its vital aura of legitimacy amid the tumult of the Sixties and it has never recovered. 'The best lack all conviction / while the worst are full of a passionate intensity,' observed Yeats, who would have found no novelty in the statue-topplers, bleating mobs and corporate appeasers who are once again doing their worst

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Should Donald Trump win the upcoming presidential election he will have to fill quite literally thousands of executive appointments, making the entire process subject to delay and sabotage by the departing administration and a likely hostile Congress. Our cabinet system is better -- if, that is, our parliamentarians are up to the task

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I have absolutely no idea how cultural institutions can carry out their traditional missions as repositories of our collective heritage amid calls to “decolonize” the collections, stacks, and curricula of museums, libraries, and universities mount, and as even the most anodyne monuments are systematically toppled

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