Removing clear and unyielding Catholic voices from the public square has been the real goal through years of hearings, slanders, cancerous journalism and unprompted police probes. Today in a Melbourne court just such a figure was taken down. The Left is determined he won't be the last

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Could this man, belonging to this Church, on these charges, get a fair trial at this time? Probably not, but that is now of the past. What we can now anticipate with grim and absolute confidence is that the Pell slander squad will return swiftly to the fray with every weapon of smear and character assassination at their disposal

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If you believe the Australian Conservation Foundation -- always a stretch, admittedly -- one woman in three plans to spurn childbearing lest Gaia take offence at the patter of those additional little feet. While the West elevates fashionable inanity, Hungary shows the way

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Perish the thought of how those who delight in being annually miffed about Australia Day might have fared under the French, Dutch or the conquistadors' whips. Instead, and for the better, we were graced with British justice and institutions, from suffrage to cricket

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Its urban plain dotted with what might be termed mono-multicultural enclaves, its roads choked, trains stalled and skyline scored by high-rises of increasingly dubious worth, the metropolis blessed by the world's most picturesque harbour suffers the ongoing vandalism of planners and politicians unworthy of its vistas

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The woke and the dumb, the self-interested and the careerists, those who know better but go along -- taken together they form a loose but the powerful alliance that stands athwart attempts to begin the long, slow reversal of climate insanity's grip on public policy

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The Left lives and rules by what might be termed the 'dictatorship of relativism': there is no truth as such, only what the arbiters of acceptable thought decree as virtuous or otherwise.  Its operatives grasp that one 'wins' only by the application of raw power.  There is no other way to resolve things

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As a case for the post-Turnbull Coalition, the notion that a Shorten government would be worse than one led by, as Tony Abbott puts it, "tribal Liberal" Scott Morrison is indisputable. Alas, encumbered by the wreckage of abandoned principles, the distinction is negligible

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It behooves us to honour the codifiers of conservative core values. Among that pantheon of great thinkers, Kirk's prodigious output warrants both reflection and genuflection -- not least right now in Australia, where what passes for conservativism could use a refresher course in fundamental principles

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Tell me I'm never happy, accuse me of delight at hearing the door slam behind Malcolm Turnbull only to whine about what, in my estimation, is the lacklustre Cabinet assembled by his successor. And call me a dreamer as well, because this is the all-star front bench that occupies my reveries

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