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Mental Health and Therapy’s Victims
When the language of mental health becomes ubiquitous, imbued with victimhood, and accompanied by a loss of confidence in objective truth, the protective discipline of morality and the importance of character tend to be superseded.
Labor Come in like a Wrecking Ball
Albanese’s tax-and-spend socialism is flattening the only asset most Australians have.
To Be a Compliant Citizen
Aussie magpies decided surveillance is definitely (not) for the birds.
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Yes, Trans Science Is Pseudoscience
Lawyers, when they are about to diplomatically call an opponent an idiot, will first say, ‘in all due respect’. In this case, not only is ‘in all due respect’ not used, but you may as well preface everything with ‘Your Honour, my opponent is a retard.’
Would We Be In Bad Company?
Is this another of Chris’s ‘big time outbursts’ that just might end up inflicting pain on his posterior.
The Prime Minister’s Tips for Keeping Kids Safe Online
In a little-known addendum to the National Party manifesto, our dear leader has penned a guide for parents dealing with the scourge of the internet. I have reproduced it in full below:
We Must Win the Right
Play the system with tactical voting and spread the word by printing a hard copy.
She Was Silenced for Asking Questions
When local councils decide that keeping smooth relationships with activist groups matters more than democratic accountability, the system is broken.
Quick Hit: He Kept the $1.5b. He Hid the Invoice.
He kept the $1.5b. He will not name the hole. PREFU is 29 September.
Hung. And Hipkins Still Has a Job.
Eight-point lead. Hung parliament. Opportunity at 9.5% and holding the knife. The gallery built the Trojan horse. Labour on 24. Hipkins still has a job.
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