Among the grants awarded to Sydney University's Annamarie Jagose is one to study 'Real sex in the cinema', what most would call pornography. This is the expertise of the person Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott -- yes, that Mark Scott -- elevated to the university’s hierarchy and who has since embroiled him in unpleasant and embarrassing clashes with students and staff

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In Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and the ACT, between 40 per cent and 60 per cent of Aboriginal adults claim to be descended from the Stolen Generations. The fact that courts have long found otherwise appears to be of no account whatsoever in Canberra, where $600 million has just been earmarked to alleviate 'inter­generational trauma'

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Stories of corruption in high places have always been a good drawcard for readers of the news media and it is no surprise that many journalists have a strong appetite for such fare. And because such corruption is usually well covered up, a form of journalistic investigation has emerged to expose it, in which reporters […]

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Many Australian journalists draw their inspiration from Woodward and Bernstein, regarding the bringing down of the high and powerful as the path to glory. The difference is the Washington Post duo were strictly supervised. At the ABC, as Louise Milligan's attempts to ruin three prominent men demonstrate, evidentiary standards are low and editorial oversight conspicuous in its absence

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When little else in the world makes sense, history is the defining discipline. It carries extraordinarily important lessons for us and the future that we seek to shape. It can demolish prejudice. It is a reminder that there are hard decisions that have to be made, and the importance of making them and not shying […]

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The 2021 ACARA curriculum is far worse than you can imagine, reading like a wish-list straight from the Green Left Weekly. It endorses every one of the major claims currently being made by left-wing climate warriors, LGBTI advocates and indigenous activists. In fact, it is not a curriculum that teaches history at all. It is an exercise in the indoctrination of identity politics.

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Frank Brennan and George Pell have their differences, but that often sour divide made the Jesuit the perfect observer of the Cardinal's trials. Enjoying privileged access to transcripts denied the public by suppression orders and the purported victim's in-camera testimony, the result is a new, fine and valuable book

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Jane Austen wrote a lot about sex. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet says to Mr Darcy: “I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.” He replies: “Are you so severe upon your own sex, as to doubt the possibility of all this?” […]

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Most people never grasped the issues at stake in renaming sex as 'gender' and saw nothing to get upset about, let alone any evidence of a campaign to impose an ideological orthodoxy. Instead of bowing to the cultural totalitarians of identity politics, we should give them a taste of their own medicine and erase the word gender from our own usage altogether

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It’s a new world, with new standards … The power feels contagious. This toppling of various giants feels like the movement’s long-lasting legacy … This is the slow burn of the #MeToo movement. The real business, the reckoning. Captains of your world, take note.                                                                       —Nikki Gemmell, The Australian, March 6, 2021 In the week […]

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