It was Paul Keating who said, “When you change the government, you change the country”. For once, he was right. And uncharacteristically honest, for a politician, in contrast to the obvious lies of the likes of Kevin Rudd and Anthony Albanese, who promised “safe, minimal change” — and immediately proceeded to
Democracy is, above all else, the art of compromise. Short of the sort of hive-mind that the left can only dream of, citizens of a polity are going to have very different and often opposing needs, wants and opinions. You can’t, to paraphrase FDR, please all of the people,
One of the major reasons the sleazy, deranged transgender ideology achieved near-hegemony so quickly is the sheer gutlessness of those who very much know better. We shouldn’t expect anything less than prolix cretinism, of course, from social ‘science’ or ‘gender studies’ academics, but biologists, doctors, psychiatrists, pediatricians – all of
Alexander Plum Senior Research Fellow in Applied Labour Economics Kabir Dasgupta Research Associate Auckland University of Technology New Zealand has made substantial progress on promoting LGBTQ+ rights over the past 20 years, including legalising same-sex civil unions in 2004, legalising same-sex marriage in 2013, and banning conversion practices in 2022.
Sarah Cowgill libertynation.com The real girls showed up at the Rayburn Building [last] week to testify on behalf of women athletes to the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Former NCAA swimmer and now activist Riley Gaines and former Oberlin College women’s lacrosse coach Kim Russell
As I’ve written several times, if you want to picture an “institutional paedophile”, forget priests — picture a teacher, instead. Almost certainly, a female teacher approaching or in the throes of middle-age. That’s not to say that the churches don’t have a shameful record of past abuse and,
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over 10 books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com Tough Crowd: How I
familyfirst.org.nz Medical experts in Australia are calling for a halt and reexamination of ‘unproven’ gender-affirming treatments which have been heavily influenced by trans activist groups whose lobbying was aggressive and intimidatory. Gender-affirming treatments include a range of controversial medical interventions “designed to affirm an individual’s gender identity”
How do Australian taxpayers feel about paying for creepy male autogynephiles and faddish teenagers to mutilate and chemically sterilise themselves? It’s bad enough that we already have to fork out for gender-confused loons in the military. Now, activists are pushing for an all-out taxpayer-funded wave of woke conversion therapy.
Michael Cook mercatornet.com The Serbian urologist Miroslav Djordjevic, one of the world’s leading sex-reassignment surgeons, has a nightmare and a dream when he thinks about the estimated 1.5 million transgender people in Western Europe. His nightmare is throwing into the garbage the penises and testicles of 700,
Dr Yvette Alt Miller Dr Alt Miller lives with her family in Chicago, and has lectured internationally on Jewish topics. Her latest book Portraits of Valor: Heroic Jewish Women You Should Know describes the lives of 40 remarkable women who inhabited different eras and lands, giving a sense of the
Darryl Betts Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and Computation. darryllrbetts.wordpress.com
We are a group of parents with children at Mellons Bay School. In Term 3 2023, Mellons Bay School approved their “Inclusive Education” Policy which will require everyone to use preferred pronouns for transgender staff and students. When a parent wrote to ask, “Will children be disciplined for not using
familyfirst.org.nz An American surgeon dubbed “Dr Frankenstein” has revealed the significant downsides of performing genital re-shaping surgeries on transgender children and adults, saying that patients face lifetime of infertility, incontinence, sexual dissatisfaction, and other lifelong post-op complications. Dr Blair Peters, a plastic surgeon at Oregon Health and Science
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. newsbusters.
As Lewis Carroll’s Humpty-Dumpty famously said, “When, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less”. The whole point, he elaborated, is “which is to be master”. As history has regularly shown, authoritarian ideologies regularly twist the plain meanings of words in order to assert
