Opinion
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In 2020 when Donald Trump was running for President, many believe that if he had said less, tweeted with more discipline, and not been so personal with his verbal attacks on others, he would have returned to the Oval Office for another...
Tragically, a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy was recently killed in a car crash in Canberra. The boy was ‘cognitively impaired’ and had escaped from out-of-home care. The teen’s family claims, ‘the system failed him’. How did this happen in Woke City?...
As initially seen with their haphazard campaign to implement an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in 2023, it has become clear that the incumbent ALP government’s legacy upon its departure from office will be characterised by no shortage of rhetoric but ultimately a...
It comes down to this - who do you trust more Anthony Albanese or Elon Musk?...
Will Aboriginal mathematics save Aboriginal people? Some think so. For example, Professor Rowena Ball from the ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute argues, ‘Students of … colonised peoples are starting to be more critical about accepting unquestioningly the cultural hegemony of mainstream European-based mathematics.’...
Is there anything the ABC management can get right?...
Radical Islam and a civilised, peaceful society don’t mix. ...
Does Anthony Albanese seriously want to reward Hamas for its horrific terrorism on Israel?...
There have been two defining moments thus far in the 2024 US Presidential election cycle which I’m sure the Democrats wish they could retract. But they can’t. They revealed themselves in the most transparent, and loathsome way. Voters won’t forget....
Never in the history of this country have we paid more in tax....
Governor General designate Sam Mostyn made her reputation, among other things, in human resources, now known as people and culture. The inimitable Janet Albrechtsen crowned her queen of quotas for the number of times she took a board role as the designated...
When I received an invitation to attend Nigel Farage’s 60th birthday party in London, I knew it would be a “don’t miss” event. The invitation had a cartoon drawing of Nigel, grinning widely, holding up a “pint”. The words were simply, “Please...
Radical politicians have launched the biggest coordinated public attack on the rights of parents and religious freedom in Australia’s history....
A women’s soccer competition has been won by a team in which five players are transgender....
Let me take you into the world of bad parenting and home-schooling, doctor shopping for an NDIS diagnosis, and children suffering....
You’ve heard it all now … Anthony Albanese thinks Chris Bowen is a visionary....
The Archbishop of Canterbury denounced at General Synod – the governing body of the Church of England – that the Church is institutionally racist. As a result, the state Church set aside £100m for reparations, and recent conversations suggest it may be...
For large swathes of Australia the countdown is on to lose almost all mobile phone coverage – and just about no-one in Canberra seems to care. ...
Paul Kelly recently asked in The Australian, “Who Do You Believe: Tony Abbott or Donald Trump?” I believe both – but I do not believe Paul Kelly. He is wrong in his analysis of Donald Trump being a threat to both America...
There are more Greens voters east of the Great Dividing Range than all voters west of it. Greens oppose irrigation and land clearing and promote the roll-out of renewables. People living east of the Great Divide bear some of the cost of...
ADH TV has received exclusive footage of the Clarke Creek wind farm in Queensland, called 'The largest renewable development in the southern hemisphere'. The video, revealed on Nick Cater's ...
The housing crisis affects not just young people....
Picture: Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs....
IT’S ELECTION WEEK in Tasmania, and former leader of the Australian Greens, Christine Milne, is clutching her pearls at the prospect of authentic Christians having a vote and a democratic voice in her home state of Tasmania....
How two people from opposite sides of the pandemic became friends, and realised that division is tyranny’s greatest weapon. By Melinda Richards. ...
Teenagers often go through a phase of self-discovery, which typically presents as rebellion. Usually it involves looking at their parents, declaring they have everything wrong, and vowing to blaze their own trail. That brave path eventually collides with reality when they begin...
Most Queenslanders are practical people and they have a great bull dust detector most every time they vote....
The odds of the highest political offices of the British Isles being occupied by people of non-traditional ethnicity are long. So how did this happen, and why are traditional Poms being left out? ...
A cannibal now rules in Port-au-Prince, a man named Jimmy Cherisier, or as he is known to locals, ‘Barbecue’. Barbecue is seemingly the last-standing political figure in Haiti, as gangs run Prime Minister Ariel Henry out of the country, stage a prison...
Politicians across the divide are pushing for longer Federal terms....
One of the last surviving Covid myths has been dealt a serious blow. ...
The ABC yet again tanks in the ratings in every market on radio and TV – and they just can’t work out why. ...
NSW Police Commissioner sacks another spin doctor but the problem is a culture of talking in riddles to the public and people have had enough. ...
We are in the middle of another Stolen Generation – only this time it involves millions of children and the consequences will be catastrophic....
Governments always have their secret agendas but this one is frightening. ...
Australians governments are spending fortunes on domestic security while brazenly allowing threats to increase, says Fred Pawle....
ADH TV cameras captured the moment that protesters at Sydney University attempted to bang down the doors at an event held by the university's Conservative Club. The agitators were protesting the presence of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott and British social commentator...
Anthony Albanese rolled out his strategy to win a second term this week. Sadly, it won’t include a credible response to inflation, rising mortgage rates, soaring power prices or anything else that’s being anxiously felt around kitchen tables across the country....
Boris Johnson’s political death should have happened a decade ago when, as London Mayor, he agreed to take part in a stunt from which any other politician would have fled....
Stories about “men” giving birth are becoming passé, despite their inherent untruth. We are either no longer shocked or we are simply fatigued....
You might have missed it, but professional surfer Mikey Wright released a new surfboard model this week. It’s called the ‘Schooner’, and is made by JS Industries of Queensland, one of Australia’s top manufacturers....
Our schools teach children that their country has been a hotbed of racism, misogyny, homophobia and environmental destruction ever since it was founded by colonial tyrants 244 years ago....
Why anybody is surprised that Senator Lidia Thorpe’s admission that she became a senator to “infiltrate the colonial project” is, in itself, surprising. The same goes for the reaction to Adam Bandt’s refusal to stand in front of the Australian flag at...
In the inevitable and badly needed federal election post-mortem, the most repeated cliché seems to be that all the players lost – except for the Teals and the Greens. Let’s put all the parties and candidates to one side and have a...
Despite talk about integrity, Anthony Albanese should remember he would not be Prime Minister but for the fact that, alone among comparable countries, Australia has not only one of the most perverse and complicated electoral systems, but also one more open to...
While the Liberal Party agonises over the loss of seven Federal seats to Teal independents, a bigger question is being overlooked....
What a strange outcome the election was. I thought Scott Morrison might hang on, mainly because the Australian people wouldn’t elect the error-prone, bumbling Anthony Albanese. But Albo’s errors made little difference. ...
Mick Mulvaney, adviser to former President Donald Trump, says he thinks the Covid lockdowns in America will go down in history as “one of the worst mistakes of the 21st century”. Lockdowns, masks, early treatment and the safety and efficacy of vaccines...
The fact that one of the key election issues of 2022 was whether biological males who identify as female should be allowed to compete against biological females in sport is a warning that something is severely amiss in Australian society. What is...
There is a values vacuum at the heart of the Morrison Government. But first, let’s start in the US. The Biden Administration has created a Disinformation Governance Board. Its stated goal is, I kid you not, ‘to combat misinformation ahead of the...
We probably wouldn’t be talking about transgender rights in this election if the campaign managers had their way. The fault-line in this polarised debate does not run along neat party lines and discussion is not easily controlled. Nevertheless, the question “what...
Ever since Peter Costello excoriated Ros Kelly, the then Minister for Sport in the Keating Government in 1993-94 for so called ‘Sports Rorts’, the scrutiny of public funding of government projects in Australia has never been the same. ...
The first one of these statements is well known. ...
The first one of these statements is well known. ...
All governments do it but in no way that validates what is done....
Almost every day, millions of Australians must ask if the Australia we once knew is gone forever; if what is called, the fabric of Australian society, isn’t being ripped to shreds....
Whole forests have most probably been cut down to write about the bizarre performance of Anthony Albanese on the opening day of the election campaign....
The Australian sporting story of the week has to be the extraordinarily dominant victory by the Australian Women’s Cricket team in the final of the World Cup....
There is no doubt that the Liberal Party in NSW is in disarray....
Australians are familiar with people marching in the streets over climate change, black lives matter and teachers’ salaries; but I wonder when parents are going to start marching in the streets over what is essentially a failed education system; and government is...
In a normal year, it would be called Budget Week; but, in reality, it is Election Week and everything in what Josh Frydenberg said on Tuesday night and what Anthony Albanese will say tonight is focused not on you or me or...
An interesting result at the South Australian election....
Next Monday, March 21, at St Patrick’s Cathedral, East Melbourne, overwhelming sadness will meet the hypocrisy of the Labor Party head-on....
It is federal election time and we will approve of some candidates and disapprove of others....
