In bowing to WA Premier Mark McGowan's wish that the Commonwealth withdraw from Clive Palmer's bid to reopen the state's borders, the PM stands condemned for an appalling dereliction of duty to uphold the Constitution. That left the High Court to ignore history and the clear meaning of words in a decision that would have sickened the Founding Fathers

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Peter Kurti is Director of the Culture, Prosperity and Civil Society program at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an ordained minister in the Anglican Church. Kurti has written […]

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Constitutional recognition would create different rules for different races, which would benefit a well-placed few while denying many Aborigines access to their full potential. It is a tragic irony that the paternalism of the past, which today's elites decry, would be imposed by template on the least fortunate, least educated and most isolated

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The judicial errors that have foiled a good man's quest to clear his name are many and significant, and the failure to address them has broader and continuing implications for the fairness of Australia’s justice system. In the light of new evidence and the overturning of guilty verdicts against George Pell, these miscarriages urgently need to be freshly examined

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To maintain white men are more favoured than any other racial/gender group is to ignore that they are much less likely to receive the protection of the law, more inclined to take their own lives and, generally, much less socially successful than almost any other ethnic-social group

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The sad reality is that Victorians have been miserably betrayed by their federal and state governments in many ways and on many levels. Premier Andrews is a leader of authoritarian inclinations and, to its shame, the Morrison government has tacitly consented to the deplorable oppression being visited 24/7 on that unfortunate state's population

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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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The Victorian government compounds ineptitude with lies, many dripping from the Premier's own lips, and grants its locked-down citizens less time outside their homes than prisoners in maximum security. And what does the PM do? He endorses the greatest violation of fundamental rights in this nation's history

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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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