Guest post. David Leyonhjelm on banning donations from “bad” people
Various people, the Greens among them, are cheering at the defeat of former Newcastle Lord Mayor Jeff McCloy in the High Court. He had sought to overturn a New South Wales law banning property...
View ArticleBreaching ministerial guidelines
At the same time that Bill Clinton’s depraved behaviour has entered the American political debate, we have “the Jamie Briggs affair” to consider. This is the part-sentence from the story in The Oz that...
View ArticleEconomics for Infants
My granddaughter had her first birthday today. I therefore wrote for her an instructional on all things economic, which I have titled Economics for Infants. There will be a new one every year and one...
View ArticleBushfire control: Green sabotage
A letter from Roger Underwood, published with permission. He wrote a lengthy paper on fire control which I also have permission to publish but I cannot transfer the file onto my website and I will have...
View ArticleThat’s a bit rich
So Australian ex-pat David Glasgow makes a good point: Don’t get me wrong; there is nothing helpful about the use of sweeping generalisations and epithets to dismiss political opponents, no matter what...
View ArticleThe attacks on Pell are the terrible symptoms of a much worse disease
I am with Andrew Bolt on this, Defend justice. Oppose this lynching of Pell. But for as much as I deplore every bit of it, this is now par for the course. The very essence of left ideology is an...
View ArticleParents don’t have to consent
This morning the Australian newspaper is reporting: Vulnerable teenagers as young as 14, including some who had suicidal thoughts, were secretly interviewed without parental knowledge about their...
View ArticleThe rabbit shall lie down with the fox
My son recommended I see the film even though he said I wouldn’t like the storyline. And we weren’t going to go but the review of Zootopia in the Herald-Sun finally did do the trick. This bit of...
View ArticleBelieve what you’re told, peons.
The La Trobe Vice-Chancelor has an op-ed in the Australian this morning defending the research that underpins the Safe Schools program. The research however does not, in itself, indicate a policy...
View ArticleYour chance to hear the only man in the world to rival Mark Steyn
This is from the incomparable Theodore Dalrymple, the only man on the planet to rival Mark Steyn for saying the most important things in the most readable way. Interestingly, I discovered them both at...
View ArticleA case study in media deceit
Showing Trump’s virtues. Stood by his man. For the history of this bizarre attempt at a set up, you can go here. If you would like a longer, more extended version of these events, Stefan Molyneux is...
View ArticleThe greatest moral challenge of our time
It’s all excellent, but the best part may be where one of those scientifically-ignoramus politicians sneers at the speaker for being a philosopher. Her answer is quite instructive as well: “try...
View ArticleThe Great Dictator returns
Charlie Chaplin’s grand-daughter is alive and attacking Merkel. This is The Great Dictator brought back to life: Jan Böhmermann faces up to five years in prison for insulting a foreign head of state,...
View ArticleThe rapture is upon us …
From last weeks Q&A: GERMAINE GREER: … and we’re actually forgetting something about them – the first responsibility of a company is to its shareholders. They’re not allowed to just give away money...
View ArticleGillian Triggs and the UN review of Australia’s human rights record
Just the introduction to this interview with Jillian Triggs is enough to make the skin crawl: After the government’s attempts to trash her reputation and to ignore most of the 16 recommendations in The...
View Article“Illogical, irrational and patently bizarre”
From The Australian today: QUT students demand apology from Human Rights Commission in race case. Two students accused the Human Rights Commission yesterday of “recklessly” breaching their human rights...
View ArticleWhere the triumphs of human genius may lead
I’ve been reading my way through at a leisurely pace an entertaining and instructive book by John Simmons with the title, The 100 Most Influential Scientists: a Ranking of the 100 Greatest Scientists...
View ArticleThe petty bourgeois scum of the Yarts Council
The petty meanness of the left goes hand in hand with its macro cruelty and disregard for human life. Their political views have caused immense harm to hundreds of millions of human beings over the...
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