The reason the Voice isn’t being waved through is that opposition has teased out its irrelevance to the task of improving the lot of Aborigines in remote communities. That's the way of things when the Left's grandiose schemes are exposed to the daylight of informed scrutiny, which makes me wonder how much longer the promoters of the great green swindle can get away with it

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Even if it could be established that disadvantaged Aboriginal people would benefit from the Voice, what about all other Australians? Would they benefit from paying reparations, from having their country geographically and racially split asunder? Fortunately, the main parties are poles apart, which has meant we have that rarest of things, a full-blown, hotly contested debate

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Assimilation is the only path to relieving the plight of a minority segment of the Aboriginal population. That’s not a cruel solution. The history of the modern Western world is full of assimilations. A genuinely cruel solution, implemented always with the best of intentions, is keeping people largely ignorant of the English language in circumstances and locations which foil their potential

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What things of substance did Trump do that were wrong? Getting NATO countries to stump up for their own defence? Moving America’s embassy in Israel? Here’s some more things he got right: creating a booming economy, calling out China, increasing defence spending, negotiating the Abraham Accords and, an enduring win, putting three brilliant judges on the Supreme Court

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Contain government spending, reduce taxes and winnow red and green tape. If governments fail to implement any of these three key measures of basic competence then productivity will suffer. If they have the nous to stick with the formula, productivity will soar. Everything else is disastrously delusional, Chris Bowen's mania for renewables and all things green being Exhibit A

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Try to imagine, to cite but one example of the West's derangement, deliberately and systematically destroying reliable sources of affordable power. That and the consequent hand-over-fist increases in our electricity bills would not have been possible without political unanimity. Both sides of politics , almost wherever you look, have signed the same national suicide notes

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The question is not whether those additional pages are formally part of the Uluru Statement, it is whether they are relevant in better understanding that document. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister waves a single sheet of aper and swears there is nothing more worth knowing. He should be selling used cars

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The march through institutions has produced a mindset among public officials, among politicians, among academics, among the great and good, which despises Western civilisation and capitalism. You can’t understand the joint support of governments, unions and corporate elites for a divisive racial provision in the Constitution grasping the osmotic infiltration and adoption of communism's perspective, methods and goals

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As newly deplatformed Nobel physicist and climate sceptic John Clauser puts it, the modern world is beset with irrational souls who put their faith in modern myths and slick marketing. Explain that net zero is impossible. Explain that wind, solar and batteries cannot replace a coal power station. Marshall the data all you like, but it will be to no avail. The inmates are running the show

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The Voice concept is ridiculous at its very core. Special representation in the Constitution for millionaires living in the inner city, provided they can point to a distant Aboriginal ancestor, really? Linda Burney should apply a laser-like focus to the actual problems she has witnessed while dropping in on troubled communities. Those dysfunctions don't need a constitutional addition so much as an intelligent, honest and proactive minister

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