The Taliban may have been able to run roughshod over the country and seize Kabul, but new battle lines are already forming in Afghanistan’s constantly changing landscape of alliances and power structures. While the West has decided to leave Afghanistan and its people largely to their fate, there is nothing resembling peace on the horizon

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We have considered the extracts quoted below from the current National Covid Clinical Evidence Taskforce (NCCET) statement regarding the use of ivermectin in Covid-19. Our responses and commentary to these statements follow. The current recommendation regarding ivermectin is as follows: “Despite some early suggestions that ivermectin may provide both prophylactic and therapeutic benefit, the available […]

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Freedoms don’t hang on parliaments but on an implied social contract that those with power will not act despotically, an understanding that grows from a culture with norms of behaviour bred over very long periods. It helps to explain why you won’t democratise Afghanistan. What you can do, however, is convert a trusting democracy to a command-and-control society

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The West's customs and culture have all been shaped by the Judeo-Christian worldview, unlike Islam which urges its male adherents to follow Mohammed's personal example. Where women are concerned the Prophet left what amounts to a handbook detailing how they should be treated, subjugated and punished. It is called the Koran and none of its edicts is pleasant

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Noticed how our elected leaders and their chief health officers relish reporting that some unfortunate young person has been claimed by the Wuhan Flu? 'See', the message seems to be, 'our restrictions aren't overreactions, not with sudden death stalking our streets'. Check the data, evaluate the modelling and peruse the ABS stats and things aren't as presented

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Marie Stopes International has realised their foundress is no one to brag about. To shed the association but keep the substance they’ve come up with the brilliant idea that the global abortion mill should follow the Colonel Sanders technique of brand refreshment and switch to initials

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It has been a dereliction of duty of the most profound kind for governments and parliaments to cede their powers to unelected public health officials. There is simply no proper basis for the anointed cadre of purported experts to define where liberty begins and ends, especially as their pronouncements have been consistently less than oracular

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The national broadcaster hopes you'll buy the proposition that it is a fair, honest and impartial organisation capable of casting an unjaundiced eye over any topic in pursuit of truth. We all know that's rubbish, but here is the ABC's chance to prove its detractors wrong. How about an open, even-handed examination of the notion that the Great Barrier Reef is on its last legs?

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By the time Australia reaches the magic 80 per cent vaccine level, circumstances will have changed and new variants will be upon us. What is most unlikely to change is the monumental uncertainty surrounding this ever-mutating virus, doubts about the effectiveness of vaccines and, the most static element of them all, the failed template of endless lockdowns and restrictions

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The officially endorsed mutilation of long dead premier William Crowther's statue in Hobart's Franklin Square is typical of so many substandard cultural bureaucracies wishing to demonstrate their 'with it' relevance. What the likes of Hobart Mayor Anna Reynolds actually put on display in endorsing such vandalism is the disgrace of their windvane philistinism

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