While antisemitism convulses Australia, the Human Rights Commission runs dead. One reason is its pro-Hamas fifth column – on one estimate it totals more than 20 per cent of staff. They intimidate and insult their HRC President Rosalind Croucher (above) with impunity. Some turn up for work in keffiyehs. Imagine
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Much ado about nothing. Namely, the Sam Kerr affair. According to news reports, the allegation seemed at one point to turn on whether Ms Kerr called a policeman “a stupid white bastard” or “a stupid white cop”. Or did it? I am not sure. That apart, is the reported vomiting
Many people have personal concerns about the pursuit of green energy by governments, federally and state. The visual intrusion, the land-hungry windfarms and solar panels and the extensive enlargement of the transmission network required to accommodate them have a marked effect on individuals’ environments and livelihoods. But the more fundamental
‘Man must dig or die’ was a motif of Lang Hancock, a visionary Australian pioneer, pastoralist, prospector, pilot, producer, philosopher and philanthropist. His daughter, Gina Rinehart, blessed with every one of those attributes, has gone so much further than even her father could have envisaged, after she recovered the wreckage
Everywhere you look these days, there seems to be a ‘gender gap’. The ‘wage gap’ between women and men has been in Labor’s headlights recently, even though equal pay for equal work has long been a reality and the purported gap represents the differential preference between men and women for,
The crushing defeat of the recent Voice referendum, where every state in Australia solidly rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to provide privileged access by elite Aborigines to the Federal Parliament, is a powerful example of a cultural folly of the highest order. The overwhelming No result was not only a
Some disappointments fade from memory as the years proceed — many if we are lucky — while others sink only to rise as unwanted reminders of hopes dashed or fallen short. They can come at random, little belches of swamp gas from the rot of failure, and one such sour
Exactly the same news cycle, irony in print. One “filthy” CO2-spewing coal power station is to be kept operating beyond its scheduled closing date of August 2025. While, at the same time, one “cleaner” natural gas extraction project is delayed by the courts, yet again. Though, as for the latter,
If vaccines are of any interest to you, you would by now know of Queensland Supreme Court’s decision which held that Queensland police’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for employees was ‘unlawful’, and a similar policy by Queensland’s ambulance service was ‘ineffective’. Naturally, this will have ramifications for similar disputes that
Funny place to find oneself on Super Tuesday as the fog lifts, this ridgeline of hillocks and dips overlooking a broad swathe of pastures, fences and narrow tracks in the rolling ground of rural Pennsylvania. This is where they say — well, some say — the South’s defeat was sealed and
Who but the hardest of heart could fail to shed a tear at the tragic break-up of one of the great love affairs of our time, at the parting of soulmates who had defied convention and prejudice to plight their troth and are now rent asunder? I refer of course
Monash University lecturer Elliot Dolan-Evans, I’m pleased to report, is likely to have fewer enrolees in his courses next semester. The Herald Sun has highlighted the young academic’s recent social media activity, which, I suspect, is not part of any extracurricular load. On October 7, Dolan-Evans was joining in the
While antisemitism convulses Australia, the Human Rights Commission runs dead. One reason is its pro-Hamas fifth column – on one estimate it totals more than 20 per cent of staff. They intimidate and insult their HRC President Rosalind Croucher (above) with impunity. Some turn up for work in keffiyehs. Imagine
Much ado about nothing. Namely, the Sam Kerr affair. According to news reports, the allegation seemed at one point to turn on whether Ms Kerr called a policeman “a stupid white bastard” or “a stupid white cop”. Or did it? I am not sure. That apart, is the reported vomiting
Many people have personal concerns about the pursuit of green energy by governments, federally and state. The visual intrusion, the land-hungry windfarms and solar panels and the extensive enlargement of the transmission network required to accommodate them have a marked effect on individuals’ environments and livelihoods. But the more fundamental
‘Man must dig or die’ was a motif of Lang Hancock, a visionary Australian pioneer, pastoralist, prospector, pilot, producer, philosopher and philanthropist. His daughter, Gina Rinehart, blessed with every one of those attributes, has gone so much further than even her father could have envisaged, after she recovered the wreckage
Everywhere you look these days, there seems to be a ‘gender gap’. The ‘wage gap’ between women and men has been in Labor’s headlights recently, even though equal pay for equal work has long been a reality and the purported gap represents the differential preference between men and women for,
The crushing defeat of the recent Voice referendum, where every state in Australia solidly rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to provide privileged access by elite Aborigines to the Federal Parliament, is a powerful example of a cultural folly of the highest order. The overwhelming No result was not only a
Some disappointments fade from memory as the years proceed — many if we are lucky — while others sink only to rise as unwanted reminders of hopes dashed or fallen short. They can come at random, little belches of swamp gas from the rot of failure, and one such sour
Exactly the same news cycle, irony in print. One “filthy” CO2-spewing coal power station is to be kept operating beyond its scheduled closing date of August 2025. While, at the same time, one “cleaner” natural gas extraction project is delayed by the courts, yet again. Though, as for the latter,
If vaccines are of any interest to you, you would by now know of Queensland Supreme Court’s decision which held that Queensland police’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for employees was ‘unlawful’, and a similar policy by Queensland’s ambulance service was ‘ineffective’. Naturally, this will have ramifications for similar disputes that
Funny place to find oneself on Super Tuesday as the fog lifts, this ridgeline of hillocks and dips overlooking a broad swathe of pastures, fences and narrow tracks in the rolling ground of rural Pennsylvania. This is where they say — well, some say — the South’s defeat was sealed and
Who but the hardest of heart could fail to shed a tear at the tragic break-up of one of the great love affairs of our time, at the parting of soulmates who had defied convention and prejudice to plight their troth and are now rent asunder? I refer of course
Monash University lecturer Elliot Dolan-Evans, I’m pleased to report, is likely to have fewer enrolees in his courses next semester. The Herald Sun has highlighted the young academic’s recent social media activity, which, I suspect, is not part of any extracurricular load. On October 7, Dolan-Evans was joining in the