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Manufactured guilt

2 March 2013

‘I was trying to prove a point that Europeans had colonised the world, and as a result of that, we see a lot of evil today.’ So said African-American student… Read more

Watch what you say

15 December 2012

‘Imagine being made to feel like crap just for being born left-handed’, exhorts a poster at the tram stop, neatly illustrating not only the delicate sensibility of advertising agents but… Read more

Imitation without flattery

7 April 2012

In the days when Australia’s gratitude to the United States for defending us in the second world war was still undimmed, Australians did not call each other ‘guys’. They didn’t… Read more

Relax: leftist media bias never made a difference

14 January 2012

‘The ABC is biased to the Left.’ ‘Q&A is stacked against the Right.’ ‘The Fairfax press is irredeemably Green.’ All very true, no doubt, but does it matter? Are all… Read more

Put back that picture of the Queen

5 November 2011

The popular success of the Queen’s visit and the decline, as indicated by recent polling, in support for an Australian republic raise the question of whether it’s time to restore… Read more