I recently heard a lecture online by John Woodhouse, former principal of Moore Theological College. Among many telling observations, one particularly struck me: If, indisputably, peerless Western civilisation was built on Christianity and yet Christianity is untrue, then it must be concluded that Western civilisation is built on a lie

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Australia's political class blindly swallowed WHO's alarmist and totally inaccurate prediction of 3.4 per cent mortality, in their panic offloading the responsibility to lead to panels of unelected 'experts' who imposed all the restrictions that continue to violate personal freedoms, have destroyed millions of jobs and will continue to ruin countless businesses

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In a democracy you get what you deserve. Come the next election we will all have a chance to pass judgement on this COVID-19 fiasco and the craven cowardice of leaders who eagerly unloaded their responsibilities onto chief medical officers. I won't forget when marking my ballot and neither should you 

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When Quadrant's Peter O'Brien quizzed the ABC about its education unit, the one lionising Bruce Pascoe with fawning video clips and a gullible acceptance of 'Dark Emu's' pseudo scholarship, the response was some time coming. It wasn't worth the wait

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Thirty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall I am no longer a member of the working-class oppressed. Having failed as an economic system, Marxism has switched its focus to the cultural barricades of race, gender and general 'otherness'. These days, as I am given to understand, I am now a member of the privileged white heterosexual elite

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The oft-repeated narrative, beloved of political insiders and press gallery solons, holds that Scott Morrison 'parked' five votes with Peter Dutton when Malcolm Turnbull sent his leadership to a party room vote, giving him the numbers to take the crown at the second ballot. A closer look at the events of August 2018 doesn't bear that out

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It was a balmy evening when the first stirrings of revolt began, the sort of night when dreams come true and the leaves fall like dandruff from the bullshit trees. This is what happened when those who for so long had enjoyed telling us how we must think, speak, act, procreate and grovel discovered they were no better than dags on the bum of a great nation

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One theory about the Andrews government is that it is brazenly corrupt. A better one sees an imbeciles' collective, as might be gathered from the Health Minister's contempt for parliamentary convention and inane late-night tweeting. In other jurisdictions the buck stops at the top. In Andrewstan accountability doesn't even get out of the starting gate

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Johannes Leak published a cartoon and, like Pavlov's dog, the usual suspects were soon awash with their own slobbered venom. When Kevin Rudd, Louise Milligan, Katharine Murphy, Benjamin Law, Michael Rowland, Virginia Trioli, Jonathan Green, Patricia Karvelas, Annabel Crabb, Julia Baird, Mike Carlton and Tim Soutphommasane reach for the rope, you know The Australian's cartoonist got it just right

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Now that the Chinese student dollars have dried up, universities will have to decide who to keep: the teaching-and-research academics who generate tuition income, or the research-only academics who drive rankings success. It's clear which ones they want to keep, if the government will only give them the money to keep them

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