Where are the university vice chancellors? "Vice Chancellor" is the Australian term for a university CEO. They appear to have no principles other than their own survival in their jobs. They are utter cowards. JANET ALBRECHTSEN below outlines what men of principle would be saying Australian vice-chancellors have been speaking in platitudes, desperate not to upset anyone. Here is a speech they should give. We, vice-chancellors who are now trying to manage the pro-Palestinian protests on our university campuses, had this coming. For many years, when it mattered, we squibbed the importance of ..read more

Could age verification for porn actually work? I think the answer is a clear No. Censorship of various sorts is already widely practiced by the Left and people have got used to evading it -- by VPNs and other means. And if a kid is not up to evading it themselves a smarter classmate will be able -- and will enjoy the prestige of sharing that wisdom and its product In a way, it's weird that it's taken this long for age verification to catch fire in Australian politics. Stopping literal children from accessing porn online, something they're not actually allowed to do anyway, seems like a sla ..read more

How mindfulness and therapy may be making our children MORE depressed and anxious In a time when mental health is talked about more than ever, there is a camp of experts who are afraid we may have gone too far. Schools across the country are implementing mental health awareness campaigns and pushing mindfulness and meditation techniques in classrooms. But, there is some evidence heightened awareness and focus on mental health is having the opposite effect and isn't helping children at all, but is making anxiety and depression worse. The My Resilience in Adolescence, or MYRIAD, trial follo ..read more

Anti-Semitic mobs thrive on old campus hatreds There is much truth in what Greg Sheridan says below. Where he goes wrong is his attribution of problems to "our society". It is nothing of the sort. "Society" is not uniform or homogeneous. The Left is seriously sick with hatred of everything normal but that does not mean everybody else is. The Left will eventually mismanage its way out of power, perhaps at the hands of Donald Trump, and the pendulum will swing back, erasing the worst atrocities of Leftism From Marx onward, the Left have always hated success in others and Israel is a shining ..read more

The causes and cures of lethal male domestic violence Ms Van Badham below recognizes that lethal male domestic violence has increased in recent years but has only vague generalizations and a call for more talking about it to offer as a solution. She ignores the fact that the broadly feminist value-set that she promotes has never been more widespread and accepted than it is now . To put it crudely, more feminism has been accompanied by more domestic violence. That is the correlation that is being ignored. Correlation is not always causation but correlation is always a feature of causation, a ..read more

The one group of Australians cruising through the cost of living crisis - and how they are driving up inflation for the rest of us The idea that the elderly are financially privileged is nuts. They are often in worse health so usually have big health-related costs that more than cancel out savings in other areas. Baby boomers appear to be cruising through the cost of living crisis - and risk pushing up interest rates as they continue to spend. The older generation that lived through 18 per cent interest rates in 1989 are now the ones suffering the least from the Reserve Bank's 13 interest ..read more

Dr Jim’s economic elixir has left us with a hangover Typical Leftist folly The story, possibly apocryphal, goes that protectionism ended for the Australian economy when Paul Keating went out to buy an Italian knit cardigan and discovered it cost more than a Holden Commodore. The tariff wall had to come down and the nation joined other free traders such as the US, the EU, China and Russia. If you believe that, I’ve got a poorly made pair of underpants to sell you at a wildly inflated price. Last year alone, the International Monetary Fund detailed more than 1500 cases of what it euphemisti ..read more

Indigenous ‘carve out’: Is this a return to the ‘reading wars’? Aboriginal children can undoubtdly reach higher standards than they do but to do that, they need good teachers not second-rate ones. Guess which they are going to get Two cheers for recent moves to ensure trainee teachers are better equipped to teach English and literacy. Not three. Not yet anyway. As this newspaper reported last week, all non-Indigenous trainee teachers must pass a test known as LANTITE (Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education students) during the first year of their degree. Why this hasn’t b ..read more

Australia’s manufacturing decline is a story of broken promises and failed industry welfare programs Trying to make everything in your own country is called autarky. North Korea tries to be autarkic. Their average national income per head is about one tenth of what South Koreans earn. A pretty clear lesson that Albo seems not to have learned NICK CATER In his first speech to the National Press Club after the 2022 election, Anthony Albanese boasted that his reforming Labor government would transform Australia into a clean-energy superpower. How so? asked a sceptical journalist from Bloombe ..read more

ANZAC DAY ANZAC DAY is the High Holy Day for the entire Australian people. The Left try to portray it as a celebration of militarism. All the troops marching through the streets can give that impression. But they overlook that on this day we actually celebrate a military DEFEAT. Pretty poor militarism. Two typical ANZAC day scenes below. Note the big crowd turnout. ANZAC commemorations are stlll widely embraced in Australia. To the undoubted chagrin of the Left, there are marches in most of our cities and crowds turn out to watch them and applaud. What we are really doing on ANZAC day i ..read more