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Decades of Abuse in Schools Covered Up

When are education bureaucrats going to be held to account, like churches? Are the media going to start smearing all teachers as paedophiles? The Christian churches, Catholic especially, have been excoriated, legally and in the public eye, for their decades of failure to act when they knew a small number

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Religious Freedom Bill Chokes Free Speech

Religious Freedom Bill Chokes Free Speech

The difference between “freedom to” and “freedom from” may seem trivial and academic. To use its technical term, “Positive Freedom” (freedom to) may sound benign, compared to “Negative Freedom” (freedom from). In fact, the difference is critical, and it’s regimes which promulgate “Positive Freedom” which have been more responsible

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First Dan, Then Dom Caves

First Dan, Then Dom Caves

Well, it’s certainly been a tumultuous few days in Australian pandemic politics. At the start of the week, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews was all-but-guaranteed to pass his pandemic bill, described by that state’s Bar Association as “a blank cheque to rule by decree”. At the same time, NSW

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Disgraced MP Disrupts Dan’s Dictatorship Plan

Disgraced MP Disrupts Dan’s Dictatorship Plan

Oh, how the worms of Victorian Labor politics turn! One moment, Dan Andrews is set to pass his pandemic dictatorship bill as a matter of utmost urgency, the next, he’s rushing to delay the final vote in parliament. All because of one of his own disgraced MPs. In a

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(Yet More) MSM Lies About Freedom Protests

(Yet More) MSM Lies About Freedom Protests

As the Freedom Movement grows and thousands of peaceful protesters take to the streets of Melbourne, what are the media to do? They can’t just pretend that tens of thousands of people didn’t march on Melbourne’s parliament. They can’t even find a few isolated nongs to

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Morrison Chickens Out on Free Speech

Morrison Chickens Out on Free Speech

Once again, Scotty from Marketing is showing his mile-wide yellow streak when it comes to domestic, culture-war issues. And so are the rest of the so-called “Liberal Party”. Scott Morrison’s latest changes to his proposed religious discrimination bill do nothing to allay concerns that it’s a dog of

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Mining Company Threatens to Sue Bob’s Army

Mining Company Threatens to Sue Bob’s Army

In 2013, forestry company Gunns tried to sue environmental protesters, ultimately unsuccessfully. Earlier this year, the Tasmanian government lost its second bid to enact laws aimed at stopping protesters invading workplaces, including working forests. So, for the time being, environmental activists retain their almost free reign to disrupt Tasmania’s

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Coalition Voters Wonder Why They Should Bother

Coalition Voters Wonder Why They Should Bother

An Australian federal election is not imminent, but it is clearly on the horizon, with both major parties putting out their first pre-poll feelers. But if Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to stage a repeat of 2019’s miracle win, he needs to give even his party faithful a reason

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Coersive Care

Coersive Care

Nick Cater mercatornet.com Nick Cater is executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre in Canberra. Since arriving in Australia from Britain in 1988, he has risen to become one of the nation’s leading political commentators. His CV includes stints as deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph in Sydney

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Dan Gets His Dictatorship for Christmas

Dan Gets His Dictatorship for Christmas

To the surprise of absolutely no-one, the three “independent” micro-party senators in Victoria’s parliament have given “Dictator Dan” Andrews the green light to become an elected dictator, by law. Andrews’ pandemic legislation, described by the opposition as “the most dangerous legislation to come before an Australian parliament”, has been

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Time Untouchable ABC Was Held to Account

Time Untouchable ABC Was Held to Account

It’s no secret that Australia’s taxpayer-funded left-wing propaganda machine broadcaster is implacably hostile to the Coalition. Which makes it even more bewildering that no conservative government ever dares do anything about it. Even worse, PM Scott Morrison seems determined to do everything in his power to keep enabling

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Keating Does His Paymaster’s Bidding

Keating Does His Paymaster’s Bidding

Tyrants never lack for apologists and appeasers in freer countries. The appeasement movement in the 1930s practically gifted Europe to Hitler. The Soviets reputedly called them “useful idiots” during the Cold War. Now, they’re flocking to the banner of China. As the communist dictatorship increasingly flexes its might and

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