We can't expect too much from those tearing down statues of historical figures, certainly not consistency. Were they capable of more than preening, bullying and burning, they would be smashing the images of two bloody and unredeemed villains -- Karl Marx and Margaret Sanger

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Even as faceless bureaucrats saw no problem with Australian universities' pandering to China they were demanding Tony Abbott register as a foreign agent. This effrontery, apart from demonstrating the Attorney-General has no control over his department, is a further example of lawfare being used against conservatives -- and only conservatives

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New Zealand has had no new cases of coronavirus for more than a month after its strict lockdown began, which makes PM Jacinda Ardern's legislation allowing police to search homes without warrant all the more reprehensible. Could it be that she loves power more than she fears the Wuhan flu?

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In the 1930s, when Germans were deeply anxious about perceived social threats, most did not mind having their freedoms curtailed for what was billed as a "temporary period". It wasn't, as Hayek would have told any prepared to listen. When liberties are suspended, he warned, reasons will always be found to keep them that way

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No free society can possibly exist without the rule of law, but what sort of law? Nothing will produce a police state more quickly than granting the consent of our silence to the daily deluge of fresh emergency measures -- measures that are inconsistent, contradictory and, quite frankly, very often insane

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With Australia's governments effectively ruling by executive decree while splurging 16.4 per cent of GDP on emergency supports and subsidies, Thomas Jefferson's words come to mind: 'A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have'

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Although I recognise the Wuhan epidemic poses a serious threat to public health, that should not be considered in isolation. Of equal importance to Australia, its laid-off workers and their future is the nature, extent and impact of the response, which seems to me to be is in urgent need of adjustment

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Decency demands all violence and abuse be condemned, be the victim be male or female. Well that decency is in short supply at government funded help lines, where feminist victimology prevails and it is deemed inconceivable that men might be anything but perpetrators. It also explains the current eruption of feminist hatred for Bettina Arndt

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Author Per Faxneld's remarkable 'Satanic Feminism' details how the early movement adopted Satan as the antidote for 'patriarchal' Christianity. Take US suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton as but one example: her two-volume 'Women’s Bible' casts Lucifer as a liberator and Eve a heroine for heeding his advice to let no male-issued edict, not even a Divine one, inhibit her lust for knowledge

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Separating an innocent parent from his or her children by means of false allegations to obtain financial advantage constitutes an extremely serious form of child abuse. Yet the system not only encourages such abuse, it more often than not declines to punish it

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