When Mental Health Education Makes Us Sick There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis. Clare Rowe 7 Jun 2022 · 7 min read
Direct Instruction Works. So Why Is It Controversial? In 2016, I was sitting in the classroom of a Melbourne school as Dr. Kerry Hempenstall described the early stages of a reading program. He projected a series of letters on the screen. First, he displayed an “f.” “This is an ‘f’,” he said. Then he displayed an “f” written Greg Ashman 14 May 2022 · 7 min read
A Better Way to Lead Christians Away from Intimate Partner Violence Of those surveyed for the IPV report, 17 percent of self-described Anglicans said they’d experienced IPV in the last 12 months, as compared to 18 percent for the general population. Andrew Judd 18 Oct 2021 · 8 min read
Why Australia Opted for AUKUS While Reuters reports that the French had ample warning the project was in trouble, the AUKUS announcement and the cancellation of the submarine contract nevertheless took them by surprise. Sean Welsh 2 Oct 2021 · 10 min read
A Peculiarly Australian Kind of Hell—Revisiting ‘Wake in Fright’ Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart. Ryan Anderson 28 Sep 2021 · 16 min read
Podcast #166: Josh Szeps on the Myth of Australia’s COVID ‘Concentration Camps’ Quillette / Jonathan Kay 19 Sep 2021 ·
COVID-Zero: Was It Worth It? If COVID-19 was your ancestor’s saber-tooth tiger, then the lives lost every day to COVID-Zero is the cost of running away. James Newburrie 9 Aug 2021 · 10 min read
Australia's COVID Catch-22 Australia has every advantage under the sun: plentiful economic resources, a highly skilled workforce, and traditionally competent governments. Matthew Lesh 30 Jun 2021 · 8 min read
Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about. Quillette 24 Jun 2021 · 9 min read
Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism. Edie Wyatt 19 Apr 2021 · 7 min read
Australia’s Population Ponzi Scheme The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim. Kelvin Thomson 28 Oct 2020 · 4 min read
Something is Rotten in the State of Victoria Overly harsh enforcement of the law can paradoxically act to undermine it. Katy Barnett 2 Oct 2020 · 14 min read
Analyst of Totalitarianism—Reading Simon Leys Today One general conclusion from reading Leys is that although totalitarian movements are immensely dangerous, that doesn’t mean we should give the theories behind them much intellectual weight. David Adler 28 Sep 2020 · 15 min read
Captain Cook and the Colonial Paradox Cook is best understood as a quintessential figure of the European Enlightenment, with all the consequences flowing from that, positive and negative. Adam Wakeling 25 May 2020 · 21 min read
Pell’s Pyrrhic Victory Pell became a public target onto which a deep well of private resentment—much of which was wholly irrelevant to his own conduct—could be directed when the opportunity arose. RJ Smith 7 Apr 2020 · 5 min read
