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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 · 10 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 · 8 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 · 22 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 · 6 min read

Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell

Several factors cast doubt on the accuracy and/or veracity of the complainant’s account.

RJ Smith

10 Feb 2020 · 14 min read

Derailing Australia’s Campus Rape Panic

Universities Australia has just commissioned a new survey on sexual assault intended to cook up more impressive rape statistics after the failure of the AHRC to produce the desired results.

Bettina Arndt

21 Dec 2019 · 6 min read

Equal Pay for Unequal Work—A Symptom of Prosperity

The Matildas’ landmark deal may actually prove counterproductive for the pay gap movement.

Luke J. Graham

24 Nov 2019 · 7 min read

Why Is a Top Australian University Supporting Indigenous Creationism?

The message in Appropriate Terminology, Indigenous Australian People is that the UNSW now regards its core mission—the pursuit of truth—as negotiable if it conflicts with the postures associated with social justice.

Andrew Glover

23 Jul 2019 · 5 min read

At Australian Ballot Boxes, the Left’s Empathy Deficit Came Home to Roost

Progressive politicians like to assume that, on election day at least, blue-collar workers and urban progressives will bridge their differences, and make common cause to support leftist economic policies.

Claire Lehmann

20 May 2019 · 5 min read

The Market for Virtue: Why Companies like Qantas are Campaigning for Marriage Equality

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has said he will “be out there strongly campaigning for a Yes vote” in the upcoming marriage equality postal ballot.

Carl Rhodes

29 Aug 2017 · 4 min read