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Australians may never embrace the use of guns for self-defence, but they also never agreed to being rendered defenceless.
by David Leyonhjelm - 27/03/2025 - 19 comments
Most people talk about the positive aspects of DEI while avoiding a critical assessment, and it has become taboo to public debate so as not to offend anyone.
by Mamtimin Ala - 13/03/2025 - 5 comments
Our media was agog at the recent NSW police announcement that they had exposed a $1.3 billion scheme for making fraudulent child sexual abuse claims.
by Bettina Arndt - 7/03/2025 - 2 comments
Anyone who denies that the brutal occupation of the West Bank and war in Gaza has not fueled the rise of antisemitism is willfully naïve.
by Alon Ben-Meir - 4/03/2025 - 15 comments
Capital punishment is a moral travesty, and Trump's hunger to not only reestablish executions but expand their use is a clear signal of his deepening depravity.
by Kimberlee Hurley - 10/02/2025 - 12 comments
A humanitarian catastrophe of staggering proportions has been brought on by the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which intensified in February 2022.
by Yuri Koszarycz - 3/02/2025 - 4 comments
The Convention's nine chapters provide a detailed approach of modalities to prevent and combat the global problem of cybercrime while also including appropriate human rights safeguards.
by Ioan Voicu - 29/01/2025 - 1 comment
The very idea that speech requires ordering and control is the first step to preventing its exercise. Death, in this case to freedom of thought and political expression, is bound to follow.
by Binoy Kampmark - 17/12/2024 - 2 comments
While this proposed legislation will prove ineffectual in achieving its intended purpose – here, protecting the prelapsarian state of childhood from ruin at the hands of wicked digital platforms – it will also leave the apparatus of hefty regulation.
by Binoy Kampmark - 25/11/2024 - 14 comments
For libertarians, maintaining a criminal justice system, of which the police are a major component, is viewed as one of the few legitimate roles of government.
by David Leyonhjelm - 1/11/2024 - 9 comments
Recently, the chair of Queensland's government's Truthtelling and Healing Commission publicly attacked the leader of the Liberal National Party and opposition, David Crisafulli, for his party's stated policy.
by Scott Prasser - 25/10/2024 - 10 comments
Far from being effective, the body's role is intended as impotently symbolic, an annexure of the corruption consensus that rots at the capital's centre.
by Binoy Kampmark - 23/10/2024 - 1 comment

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