Editor’s Column
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Vaclav Klaus made astute points about the EU elections. First, he rejected the term 'populism' as a dangerous progressive label used to attack 'rational thinking and political freedom'. Second, environmentalism, institutionalised in Europe, is the number one danger, the basis of the 'new society'
August 25, 2024
9 mins
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The real problem was not just that health minister Greg Hunt colluded with the premiers to lockdown Australia and the mandating of vaccines that were neither safe nor effective, but that he presided over the censorship and persecution of doctors, researchers and anyone else who dared to criticise the government narrative
June 3, 2024
8 mins
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This week, Zhang Zhan, a Chinese citizen journalist and former lawyer, is set to be released after four years in jail for the heinous crime of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.
May 27, 2024
9 mins
The latest
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Progressives denounce populism as a 'threat' to democracy, observes editor Rebecca Weisser in our just-released May edition. As former Prime Minister Tony Abbott also writes in this edition, 'If it’s the elected populists that worry you, isn’t that mistrusting democracy itself?'
May 1, 2024
7 mins
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By a strange alignment of the electoral stars, more than […]
March 27, 2024
8 mins
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O’Sullivan’s Law states that all organisations that are not explicitly […]
February 28, 2024
8 mins
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It is very rare in Australian political history for the […]
October 30, 2023
12 mins
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Marcia Langton is talking about angry youths taking to the streets while Henry Reynolds looks further afield to the UN, where he promises Australia will have 'few friends in the erstwhile colonial world'. Given neither academic commands a phalanx of angry teenage youths, what they are expressing is what they wish would happen. What they actually reveal is their hatred for the country that has given them all they have
September 29, 2023
9 mins
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Contrary to what the Prime Minister asserted upon learning of Yunupingu's death, making claims for land rights was not his idea and, when he did have a significant role in the movement years later, there was a stench of corruption about his distribution of the royalties. As for the many obituaries in the press, scant mention was made of his 2006 appearance in a Darwin court accused of a violent sexual assault that threatened the life of one of his four wives
July 3, 2023
20 mins
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If there’s any hint of unintended consequences—for example, an untidy […]
May 29, 2023
12 mins
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In September last year the Albanese government advertised for applicants […]
April 27, 2023
11 mins
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When Voice advocates laid down their Uluru agenda for Aboriginal self-determination, a non-negotiable demand was that Australia undergo a process of 'truth-telling'. This brings to mind 1984 and Orwell’s central character at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith, whose job it was to send history down the memory hole while rewriting the past to accord with Big Brother's latest political narratives and objectives
April 2, 2023
12 mins