The growing threat of political correctness
Brendan O'Neill, the editor of online magazine Spiked Online reckons that Australia is becoming too PC. Furthermore, that increasing political correctness is stifling freedom of speech.
O'Neill's views on this current state of affairs can...
At a book burning soon, on a campus near you…
Students are such delicate petals these days. I fondly recall the tutorial in my University heyday in which a fellow male student used the term 'carnivorous vagina' twice in a discussion on Nietzsche with...
The positive impact of European Colonialism
We are used to hearing, fairly constantly in the media from academics, activists and educators about the devastating effect that European colonialism has had upon indigenous cultures. Those of European decent are made to...
The Guardian does Border Farce
So I wandered over to the Guardian Australian website again last night, for a distraction mainly. I've gone all year without watching a single episode of Q&A and the strain is showing. I would...
The Keating Budget: The Dysfunctional will rob the Functional
This is horribly predictable:
"A currency union without financial equalisation - that's impossible! The strong must help."
Or to put it simply:
The dysfunctional will rob the functional.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/world/a/29389113/frances-economy-minister-calls-for-euro-zone-government-with-fiscal-transfers/
Maybe Gayby
There were two interesting decisions by State governments in the past week or so regarding religion (or at least preaching) in schools.
In the southern State of Victoria, the still relatively new Labor government moved...
The winter of our discontent
The City of Melbourne has experienced its coldest winter in 26 years.
The news was eagerly anticipated by the scientific and environmental activist community, who had been monitoring the trend with growing alarm.
'It was a...
Free to protest – except if you’re Christian or on the wrong side of...
This item caught my attention as I was scanning the news today:
Sex Party MP Fiona Patten seeks to establish new laws in Victoria that would establish a 150 metre 'safe access zone' around abortion...
Bill Whittle Video: Happy Warriors Fighting ISIS
Bill Whittle, of the inspiring PJTV, has a gift for words. In this video, he talks proudly about the good character of the people who are fighting against ISIS.
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