At what point should politicians and bureaucrats be held to account for the blood on their hands? Surely, when their decisions lead directly to the death of innocents, something stronger than merely being allowed to resign and shift sideways is merited? The Victorian Labor government, after all, introduced its Industrial
Kiri Allan told us all that she’d defend her charges, that there was a ‘technical point of law’ that needed to be explored in a trial, that she was innocent and that her case would prove that out. And then on the morning of the trial after months of
In Philip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass, a would-be assassin attempts to excise his soul from the stain of murder by “pre-emptive penance”. Every day of his life, Father Luis Gomez performs intense penance for sins he hasn’t committed. The idea is that doing so builds up a “credit
One of the most persistent tropes in fiction, from Sherlock Holmes to superheroes, is the ‘criminal genius’. In real life, though, criminals are almost always far from geniuses. If they were that smart, they’d find legal ways to make buckets of money. And geniuses often make pretty lousy criminals.
For all that we’re finger-wagged that transgenderism isn’t a fetish or a mental illness, there seem to be an awful lot of trannies behaving like, well, mentally-ill fetishists. It would be one thing, though, if they were just getting off on cross-dressing in the privacy of their own
The ability of people to deafen themselves to what they don’t want to hear is astonishing. Hence, when debating with rainbow groomers, they will invariably respond with ‘those things never happen’. Similarly, they invariably steadfastly refuse to countenance that public school teachers might be more prolific abusers than even
Teresa Pirola Dr Teresa Pirola is a Sydney-based freelance writer and faith educator, and author of Catholic-Jewish Relations: Twelve Key Themes for Teaching and Preaching (Paulist Press, 2023). mercatornet.com Screams Before Silence is a harrowing, yet sensitively crafted and ultimately viewable, documentary film about the weaponisation of rape by
Many years ago, my wife and I were called to a meeting with the school principal, over an “incident” involving our son. He’d laid out another kid. Except, as it turned out, our son had been repeatedly bullied by the kid, given him plenty of warnings to back off,
An author acquaintance of mine recently put out a call for help: she’d been increasingly subject to decidedly creepy inquiries from ‘fans’. Put broadly, these covered everything from questions about her sex life to requests for photos of her young children. At the time, we thought she might have
Kimberly Ells Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. mercatornet.com For many parents, the day they find out their child is being approached, targeted, educated, and manipulated by strangers on his or her digital devices is the day they finally take
Jude McCulloch Jude is a criminologist whose research investigates the integration of war and crime, police and the military, and security and crime control. Her recent research projects focus on crime risk, prevention and family violence. JaneMaree Maher JaneMaree is a feminist social scientist whose research is focused in two
Dave Pellowe Dave Pellowe is a Christian writer & commentator, founder of The Good Sauce, convener of the annual Australian Church And State Summit and host of Good Sauce’s weekly The Church And State Show, also syndicated on ADH TV. goodsauce.news I think it’s entirely uncontroversial to
Rarely has Labor’s doublespeak been so baldly exposed than this week. At the very same time that Anthony Albanese and his minions were blatherskiting about violence against women, yet another of the foreign criminals they turned loose on the Australian community bashed an elderly woman within an inch of
Why would anyone trust police in Victoria any more? Politicised, corrupt and hypocritical, VicPol’s reputation has been battered on all fronts over the past few years. It wasn’t just the naked brutality of the Covid era, when Victoria Police rolled out assault vehicles and locked down the skies,
They’ve spawned books by the thousands and movie and true-crime documentaries by the hundreds, but is the Golden Age of the Serial Killer coming to an end? Serial murder is nothing new, of course. Records of what are now recognised as serial killings go back as far as Chinese
