Surely it is wrong to incarcerate someone because a single complainant 'looks convincing', particularly in circumstances where the alleged offences took place decades ago and, to boot, in the most improbable of circumstances. George Pell's last hope for justice now resides with the High Court

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the three fellow members of her virulently anti-Israel 'Squad' represent a growing breed of leftist politicians in America, the UK and Europe. They despise Western civilisation and are out to pull it down. Their admirers, while yet more subdued in Australia, are getting louder and stronger

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Just as we embraced 'deplorables', so must any conservative with an ounce of integrity and courage embrace being far right. The spectrum has moved so far left in our institutions, in our media, in our corporate world, that I have become far right by default. For that I offer no apology, and neither should you

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Those messing about with the mullahs via hard talk and sanctions are whistling in the wind. And each year Iran gets closer to having its bomb and the effective means of delivering it on target. Choices are clear: sit back and let Tehran get its bomb -- or take serious action to stop it

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Georg Knapp, Abba Lerner, Hyman Minsky are names few but those immersed in the dismal science will know or recognise. This is a pity, especially where the stewards of the world's economies are concerned, as it is this trio's theories which have informed the latest crackpot neo-Keynesian assault on economic sanity

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There are nine quick lessons to be drawn from the Russiagate special counsel's doddering, distracted and incoherent responses to questions during last week's marathon testimonies before House and Senate intelligence committees. The first is that Australia's media mostly neglected to report what a fool he appeared. The ninth is that Trump will win in 2020

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You could say that bringing people to trial on the basis of one uncorroborated accusation is unsafe or unsound. That is a nice legalese way of putting it. It is, in fact, potentially dangerous to our very way of life. Were Cardinal Pell not in solitary confinement you could ask him for his insights

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True, it will be difficult to thoroughly cleanse sacred scriptures of admonitions to spurn what once were seen as sins and now are celebrated. What we want is a religious purity commission headed by someone with a freewheeling moral compass and no outdated attachment to freedom of speech. Oh, and they will need to be very brave as well

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To remedy the lassitude afflicting the economy we need patriotic capitalism freed from the dead hands of governments, from environmentalists and from union leaders stuck in the cloth-cap mindset of yore. Most of all we need economic experts who understand and preach that consumer-led stimulation is a pernicious myth

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'We're against bigotry,' cry the bigots who demanded Israel Folau's head on a platter. Their wish was granted to the accompaniment of secular hymns praising the hollow gods of Acceptance, Empathy and Inclusion -- mercies extended only to members of the progressive choir. For the non-anointed there can be only the wilderness of exile

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