Opinion Australia

Free speech and freedom of thought are at the bedrock of our democratic society, so it is outrageous that the Bill could challenge them.

The Solomon Islands election could have hailed a major change of fortune for Australian and US leaders in the region, except things appear to remain the same.

The issue of domestic violence dominated headlines this past week, but is there more to the story?

France has embedded abortion in its Constitution. How can we tolerate the disintegration of moral boundaries when we allow babies to be killed.

The allegation that maths is racist and therefore needs to be ‘decolonised’ is not unique to ANU.

The demand to do more to protect vulnerable women is understandable. But there’s also a price we pay for knee-jerk responses.

Anyone who has studied a skerrick of history knows that protecting free speech is about giving voice to the powerless against the more powerful.

There can’t be many countries whose patriotic focal point is a military loss, yet that is true of us.

According to a YouGov survey, most Australians don’t enjoy their job.

The Brazilian church has prostrated itself to totalitarianism.

Our ANZACs stormed the shores of Gallipoli in a battle that etched the Cooee echo of our soldiers forever in the history pages of the world.

In the 1980s, Australians fought hard against a similar national ID program, what has changed since then?

If high-sounding rhetoric could deter our adversaries, then the Albanese government’s new defence budget was a resounding success.

Given the way that non-Israeli governments in the Middle East treat their citizens, I don’t think the Palestinian people, especially women, would be truly free.

As G. K. Chesterton pointed out, ‘When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.’

Not a lot, it seems.

The Labor Party is now caught in a political pincer movement that is threatening its support base no both sides.

Time to say ’my bad' for the vaccine mess, the eco-dreams turned eco-nightmares, and the digital IDs that nobody asked for.

I was trending all day on X after media articles attacking me for daring to include Bruce Lehrmann in a conference appeared.

‘We will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there. But principles matter more than profit,’ Musk said.