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In Huxley’s future, pleasure pacified the masses. In ours, the machines do it - one sycophantic sentence at a time.
by Binoy Kampmark - 5/11/2025 - 2 comments
When Queensland’s Revenue Office treated a husband and wife differently over the same property, it raised an unexpected question: has bureaucracy finally outpaced biology?
by John Mikkelsen - 3/11/2025 - 4 comments
Behind the March for Australia was quiet frustration — families struggling with rent, young men losing ground, and a country wondering who’s really being heard.
by Bettina Arndt - 20/10/2025 - 9 comments
Studies show most workplace bullying in Parliament and beyond is done by women - yet the feminist establishment keeps it quiet.
by Bettina Arndt - 6/10/2025
Pause the intake until housing, infrastructure and services catch up. That’s not xenophobia - it’s common sense.
by Graham Young - 11/09/2025 - 21 comments
Integration should not mean cultural erasure; it should mean civic belonging – understanding our history, respecting democratic values, and committing to a shared future.
by Aarushi Malhotra - 2/09/2025 - 21 comments
Movember is profiting from goodwill towards men—while diverting funds to anti-male programs run by people who don’t understand, or don’t care.
by Bettina Arndt - 5/08/2025
Interviewed July 2025 on his Australian book-tour, US sociologist Musa al-Gharbi waxed eloquent on wokeness and inequality, on US and China. Though I failed to subvert his next book.
by Stephen Saunders - 18/07/2025 - 15 comments
Under the guise of protecting girls, researchers exploit harmless male banter to incriminate boys and label them misogynists.
by Bettina Arndt - 25/06/2025 - 2 comments
Not since Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin has a work of fiction provided such a confronting and disturbing insight into the adolescent mind.
by Jean Yates - 21/05/2025 - 3 comments
Thanks to digital technology and social media, children no longer have the option of leaving their bullies at the school gate.
by Jean Yates - 15/05/2025 - 3 comments
What was more accurately on show were celebrity space marketers on an expensive jaunt, showing us all that women can play the space capitalism game as well.
by Binoy Kampmark - 23/04/2025 - 1 comment

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