What were the Human Rights Commission’s attacks on Bill Leak but attempts to silence him? Why else apart from fear and cowardice do media outfits marginalise conservative content? How else other than dumb censors would you categorise the Press Council's scolding ninnies?

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Bill Shorten abused an Asian shopkeeper unable to satisfy his yearning for a pie. Today he's Mr Caring-Sensitive and that incident has gone down the memory hole, just as Turnbull's backers forgot his abysmal record as a leader and vote-winner

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The UN’s emphasis on per capita emissions tells us next to nothing about planetary survivability but a great deal about the world body's dishonesty. We’d be well rid of a corrosive organisation that is home to more criminals than Chicago in the 1920s. In per capita terms, of course.

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One doesn't like to cite oneself as an example to the youth of Australia, but in this instance I'll make an exception. If you want to land that job you've yearned for but can't figure how to get a foot in the door, here's a tip: turn up, forget about money and look eager. You'll be halfway there

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I once found myself in Kevin Rudd's company and mentioned, for want of something better to say, that Julia Gillard's poll numbers were holding up. Soon thereafter the PM's hand was about my throat, just not quite touching. It was the shortest, clearest message he ever delivered

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Said the ardent young socialist to the ABC, 'I was born when the Soviet Union still existed, but I have no memory of it and it doesn’t inform my politics at all.' It's frightening to realise how, even with a universe of fact and history just a  click away, the stupid are determined to stay that way

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When certain types insist something will go disastrously wrong, it invariably turns out just fine, so it is important when preparing for imminent doom to first acquaint yourself with its latest prophet's record of divination. Thai restaurants are far more reliable guides to the future

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When the Big Three couldn’t compete with nimble imports flooding the US, the automakers' first instinct was to grope for the taxpayer teat and suckle long and hard. Oh, how the mighty do fall, in this case from building one B-24 bomber every hour to the shamelessness of mendicant also-rans

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During a valedictory interview on the ABC, Gillian Triggs said of evidence that she had been a little imprecise when answering Senate inquiries: “To a high degree the allegations are false.” Is that not the most beautiful legalistic evasion you’ve ever heard?

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Sixteen years after September 11, the latest attacks in London, Manchester and the Melbourne suburb of Brighton might just be awakening a dormant fury. When even the ABC finds itself using "Islam" and "terrorism" in the same sentence, there is hope reality is finally making itself felt

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