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Mind Your Language

Mind Your Language

Bob Day Bob’s contribution to the Australian community has been reflected in a wide range of appointments including National President of the Housing Industry Association, Co-Founder and Inaugural President of Independent Contractors of Australia, Director of The Centre for Independent Studies and Senator for South Australia. libertyitch.com Everyone

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What Statistics Tell Us (2)

Tani Newton As I said last time, the statistics tell us much, but also little. They tell us that the Western world is in population decline and extinguishing itself. Some would say that immigration is temporarily propping up the population, but it would be more realistic to say that immigration

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Why Hitler Loved ‘Social Justice’

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the editor at large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In August 1920 in Munich, a young Adolf Hitler delivered one of his first public speeches before a crowd of some 2,000 people. During his speech, which lasted nearly

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Now It’s the Great DVD Revival

Now It’s the Great DVD Revival

It’s quite often said that people got rid of their records and bought CDs, now they’re getting rid of their CDs and buying records. I never did either. I kept all my records and bought CDs. In fact, I bought a bunch of records at bargain prices when

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The Power of a Name

Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer whose work has appeared in print and online worldwide. The author of over ten books, mostly about fringe beliefs and eccentrics, his latest title, “Hitler’s and Stalin’s Misuse of Science” exposes how the insane and murderous abuses of science perpetrated

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Love, Culture, and the Waitangi Tribunal

Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com For reasons I can’t fully explain, there was very muted reporting of the Court of Appeal

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Preaching Personal Pronouns in the Public Service

Preaching Personal Pronouns in the Public Service

Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com You would think that at this time, the Public Service Commission would be concerned about jobs being lost and redundancies and all that sort of important and urgent stuff. But nope – the focus is on counselling, safe spaces and indoctrination for incorrect use of personal pronouns.

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The Art Market

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last week I was shown a copy of the Listener from last year. The reason was a four page article in it on a Korean based Kiwi, Adam Ballin, who along with two colleagues has apparently built a very successful international renewable energy business and

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Who Did This to a Generation?

It’s not for nothing that social media has been dubbed “the Big Tobacco of the 21st century”. Like Philip Morris and Rothmans in the ’50s and ’60s, companies like Meta have done their internal research and know how harmful their products are. Especially to teens. Yet that’s just

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Welcome to the Current Welfare Mess

Welcome to the Current Welfare Mess

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com I’m not sure that it’s much comfort to anyone to know that the post-Covid surge in violent crimes, gang activity, ram raids, random shootings, thuggery and stabbings is occurring in other countries as well as New Zealand. These days, wagging school, out-of-control welfare and

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What Do We Say about Govt-Supported Artists?

What Do We Say about Govt-Supported Artists?

As AC/DC famously said, “It’s a long way to the top, if you wanna rock’n’roll”. Getting had, took, ripped off and under-paid: it’s all part and parcel of trying to make it in show business. As Spider Stacy of the Pogues once said to me,

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What Statistics Tell Us

Tani Newton Statistics tell us so much, and so little. These statistics are familiar to many of us: birthrates across the Western world have been below replacement level for decades. 45% of today’s young women will probably not have children, and societies which fail to replace their populations disappear

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It’s Just That ‘Oldest Living Culture’

It’s Just That ‘Oldest Living Culture’

Whenever Australians have to endure the dreary virtue signals of “Welcome to Country”, it’s highly likely that those waxing solemn about the so-called “world’s oldest living culture” have never had any real exposure to the culture they’re fawning over. Or, indeed, experienced anything other than some fatuous,

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Who Wants a 10-Day Work Week?

Who Wants a 10-Day Work Week?

History is littered with the corpses left behind by utopian revolutionaries. As Jordan Peterson points out, it’s pointless to condemn the grim toll of, say, the Maoists or the Stalinists, if we don’t forensically examine the ideologies that motivated their crimes and catastrophes. For instance, the Maoists insisted

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They Want to Play God

They Want to Play God

Do not cast me aside in my old age; as my strength fails, do not forsake me. Psalm 71:9 The American actress Patricia Clarkson has been around since around 1987: she’s 64 years old. I’ve been an admirer of her and her work for many years, though

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Maybe We Should All Be ‘Xenophobes’

What is it with doddering old left-wing politicians savaging their countries’ closest allies? OK, granted, Bob Carr is retired from active politics, but his influence in Labor politics remains immense. So, when Carr attacks the New Zealand government over its possible joining of AUKUS, you can bet people in Labor

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