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Scotty's Jab
Is Australia the champion of Covid management, or did we - despite the current furore - just get lucky with a low number of deaths from the not-so-killer virus? Explaining Australia's performance is important for many reasons, not least because what has been achieved has come at a great cost. And on close inspection, our performance is nothing about which to write home.
Australian Parliaments Abrogate Their First Duty as Governments
The first and principal duty of government is to protect the nation's citizenry. Political philosophers back as far as Thomas Hobbes have understood this. When governments embrace the culture of death, epitomised by abortion and euthanasia, they abrogate their most basic responsibility. Worse, they abandon the most vulnerable in society. No amount of post-modernist sophistry will ever change this.
Why Christian Porter May Lose His Defamation Case
The Christian Porter defamation case against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is all over the media. While some legal pundits are confident Porter will prevail against chief Cardinal Pell accuser Louise Milligan, others are not so sure. The John Fleming case may portend an unfortunate legal precedent. This article appeared originally in The Epoch Times.
The Covid Reich and the Epic Fail of the Australian Media
At a time of epic fails by political leaders, oppositions, bureaucracies, and, alas, churches, we need an epic fail by our media like a hole in the head. Yet that is what we have now. Amid all the Covid disasters, our media have lost the plot. They are not doing their core jobs of speaking truth to power and calling out stupidity, and we are all the poorer for it.
The Failure of Public Policy
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. (Philippians 2: 3-4) How has our society arrived the point where wide-spread abortion is not only tolerated but promoted, and a beneficial view of euthanasia is endorsed in parliamentary bills? Why was a romantic view of same-sex marriage given media endorsement and such a prominent focus in the marriage plebiscite and in politics? Why is sexual experimentation promoted, often in the context of unwittingly promoting violence against women through the implicit endorsement of pornography?
Our elites just aren't that serious about stopping pedophiles
We've all heard more than we ever care to about child grooming and abuses occurring in our institutions. The crimes in and around Rotherham, for example, are well-documented, and cause us to shake our heads in dismay. Our hands are clenched - if we're human beings - at the injustice and inaction of those who are charged with keeping children safe. This surely causes us to wonder exactly how serious our political elites and judiciary are about protecting children. While authors such as sociologist Gabrielle Kuby, Dr. David van Gend, and Jonathon van Maren expose sinister ideologies behind the global ascension of gender revisionists, it is cause for wonder why so many people continue to elect vastly inappropriate politicians or keep their children in harmful school environments.