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The referendum gay activists can't risk

by Christopher Akehurst

May 7, 2013

It seems a reasonable proposal, actually testing claims that the majority of Australians support same-sex marriage. Trouble is, though, ABC and Fairfax types would get to vote only once, the same as everyone else

The sun shines bright on Planet Julia

by Philippa Martyr

May 6, 2013

That notion of parallel universes, so beloved of science fiction writers, is no longer a mere theory. If we are to judge by Julia Gillard's assertion that her party will carry the day on September 14, the one she inhabits must be a wonderful place indeed

To pay for the NDIS, kill the waste

by Will Dallas Brooks

May 5, 2013

The author's research demonstrated that 56 cents of every NSW hospital dollar was spent inefficiently, with 30 cents of that sum totally squandered. If the past is any guide, taxpayers are about to be hit with another gold-plated bureaucrats' delight

Deafened by terror's distant rumble

by Des Moore

May 4, 2013

As the echoes of the Boston bombings continue to reverberate in the US and also in Australia, the leaders who should heed them most have been overcome by a galloping deafness

How did she get away with it for so long?

by Philippa Martyr

May 1, 2013

A multiple-personalities diagnosis has not stopped a Melbourne embezzler being sent away for a stretch of hard time. Many voters will wish to see the same legal principle observed in September

Jihad! What jihad?

by Des Moore

May 1, 2013

If yet another bombing by Muslim extremists cannot focus US authorities' attention on the threat of domestic terrorism, what hope that their Australian counterparts will recognise the threat within 

What David Gonski can't quite understand

by Michael Galak

April 30, 2013

The plan to pour billions of dollars into our failing schools is just one more example of a blinkered educational establishment elevating wishful thinking to an art form. A good education begins not in the classroom but at home

Prints of The City and other royal pains

by Peter Smith

April 29, 2013

Stock-picking gurus take liberties with the language while economics commentators make the case for remedial education. It's enough to make a fellow forget where he put his "buy" orders

All that sex ed and we still need RU486? Go figure

by Philippa Martyr

April 27, 2013

With the cost of so-called 'morning after' pill poised to be underwritten and all the usual suspects cheering, recall all those assurances that sex ed would greatly reduce unwanted pregnancy. It didn't and this won't

How the left colonised the ABC

by Geoffrey Luck

April 27, 2013

It is hard to believe, but there was a time when the national broadcaster played its news coverage with a straight bat. Geoffrey Luck was there to witness the corridor feuds and turf wars that saw reporting subordinated to groupthink, advocacy and exclusion

Beach Burial

by Kenneth Slessor

April 25, 2013

The Anzac Legacy

by Roger Franklin

April 25, 2013

What's wrong with a minute's silence for those fell? To revisionist academics, it is 60 seconds when their voices cannot be heard.

Hypocrisy, thy name is feminism

by Christopher Akehurst

April 23, 2013

There are feminists like Margaret Thatcher who achieve, and then there is the other variety, the sort whose mourning for Britain's former leader was conspicuously muted. Perhaps they were too busy excusing Julia Gillard's incompetence to notice their own selective misogyny

The nameless peril of Muslim terror

by Des Moore

April 23, 2013

First, the pundits and politicians preferred to blame white, homegrown "patriots" for the Boston bombings. When the identity of the killers emerged, the silence was deafening

A fork in our road to Greece

by Peter Smith

April 22, 2013

While an Abbott victory would be most welcome, come September 14, that date will mark a challenge much greater than the replacement of an incompetent leader with a steadier one. Simply put, government spending as a percentage of GDP must be brought to heel

How Thatcher made peaceniks' dreams come true

by Daryl McCann

April 22, 2013

The protesters wanted the world to step back from the brink of nuclear war. They will never admit it, not even now, but that is precisely what Britains then-PM achieved -- with a little help from Ronald Reagan, of course

Gillard's Very Farce Train

by John McLean

April 20, 2013

The numbers don't add up, discounted airfares aren't taken into account, and it won't be any faster than flying on some routes. About the only thing going for Gillard & Co.'s High Speed Rail proposal is that modern journalists cannot bring themselves to question "expert" appraisals

Their ABC, for now

April 20, 2013

Another day, another exhibit in the case for sweeping reform at the national broadcaster, this time courtesy of Virginia Trioli

Rupert Murdoch's outstanding address

by Gina Rinehart

April 18, 2013

It was worth the long-haul from Japan to hear Rupert Murdoch demolish the key and most costly misconception of our time: that "caring" socialism is moral and free markets are not

A sorry excuse for a Royal Commission

by Dr. Murray Walters & Dr. Alston Unwin

April 17, 2013

It will generate acres of headlines and prompt tears, but is the judicial inquiry into institutional child abuse likely to achieve anything? Two psychiatrists think not, unless the sideshow of a largely pointless spectacle is reckoned a public good