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It’s Different When They Do It

It’s Different When They Do It

If you’ve never been to Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), well… you’re not missing much. Well, that’s not entirely true: you’re missing an architecturally stunning building — filled with absolute, overpriced tat. I’ll give owner David Walsh credit for giving back to

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Both Courts Should Protect Victims

Both Courts Should Protect Victims

Carrie Leonetti Associate Professor of Law, University of Auckland Victims who experience family violence in New Zealand are treated differently, depending on which part of the justice system they turn to for help. But a new member’s bill before parliament could change all that. Currently, our law guarantees special

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Why Julian Assange Must Be Freed

Why Julian Assange Must Be Freed

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at FEE. fee.org John Joseph Mearsheimer recently summed up in a single sentence why Julian Assange should go free. “Journalists don’t go to jail for publishing classified information in the United States,” Mr Mearsheimer, a political

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Can We Fight Critical Race Theory?

Can We Fight Critical Race Theory?

Hello, it’s John Porter on Bay FM and today I’m talking about Critical Race Theory (CRT). No, not heard of CRT? Well, it’s a significant issue around the world these days and seems to be becoming embedded in the thinking of certain sectors of our society. Critical

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What Was That Judge Thinking?

What Was That Judge Thinking?

Peter Allan Williams peterallanwilliams.substack.com Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week That Golriz Ghahraman and District Court Judge Maria Pecotic were once lawyer colleagues is incontrovertible. There is published evidence that

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ABC Omits Key Facts to Protect Its Pal

ABC Omits Key Facts to Protect Its Pal

The leftist echo chamber continues to shill for its own. Just last week, The BFD reported that disgraced former Canberra top prosecutor Shane Drumgold is now teaching law students at Canberra University. Even more galling, the lawyer who was found by two inquiries to have withheld evidence, and knowingly lied

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A British Media Cover Up

A British Media Cover Up

Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His latest is Hitler’s and Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past. mercatornet.com Scarlet Blake is a 26-year-old female British murderer who

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Free to Believe What They Let You

Free to Believe What They Let You

Many years ago, I found myself “between jobs”, as they say. Mrs Brady, diligently scanning the job ads, found a position open in a health food store. “Must have a commitment to sharing organic and vegan lifestyles”, the ad specified. I pointed out that I was, if anything, diametrically opposed

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How Low Can Canada Go?

How Low Can Canada Go?

Maria Kulp Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University Imagine that you have lived with an illness for years. The suffering this illness has caused is devastating – so much that you wish to die. You no longer feel like the person you were before. You have been to see specialists, have

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What Will Canada’s Online Harms Bill Do?

What Will Canada’s Online Harms Bill Do?

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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Our Justice System Failed Her

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 The recent decision to let a violent activist go free and with name suppression after repeatedly attacking

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A Fox Teaching Chickens to Count Eggs

A Fox Teaching Chickens to Count Eggs

Even by the standards of the Canberra Bubble, this one’s a jaw-dropper: disgraced former ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold has been appointed as a lecturer at Canberra University. Even more astonishing, he’s teaching a unit on the law of evidence. Which makes about as much sense

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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Herald reports Auckland University Associate Law Professor, a Carrie Leonetti, saying she’s never seen any evidence to suggest banning gang insignia and consorting had an impact on gang membership and violence. That’s about as logical as me saying I’ve never seen

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Politicians in Government Today Cannot Be Trusted
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Politicians in Government Today Cannot Be Trusted

The Labour-Greens Government wasted precious time and money on Covid when the country needed relief from the high cost of living, poorly maintained roads, hospital staffing shortages, high truancy rates, the explosion in youth crime and rising welfare dependency. The politicians in government today cannot be trusted. Some were in

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Supreme Court Rules That Vaccine Coercion Is Unlawful

Supreme Court Rules That Vaccine Coercion Is Unlawful

Augusto Zimmermann mercatornet.com Augusto Zimmermann is professor and head of law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education and served as associate law dean at Murdoch University. He is also a former commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia. He is the co-author with Gabriël Moens AM of

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