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Secular world has a Christian foundation
The contemporary atheist movement has a scorched earth strategy - chop down Christianity, root and branch. I don't believe in God either, but this...
Premiers, state your case
Four of Australia's six state governments are now conservative, but you'd hardly know it. In Queensland it's early days. But in NSW, Victoria and...
Not such a super idea
The Federal Government's plan to increase compulsory superannuation contributions from 9% to 12% is economically dubious and morally questionable....
Earth Hour: the Majesty of Failure
All those darkened buildings, all that hype about switching off to save the planet! How successful is the tidal wave of support demonstrating our...
Regulatory failure of Titanic proportions
In one scene of the 1958 Titanic film A Night to Remember, Captain Smith is consulting with the shipbuilder Thomas Andrews. After the two realise...
State debt will rise despite budget cuts next month
Next month will see the release of state and federal budgets with both focusing on lower deficits. The Commonwealth's spending cuts will include...
Offence against free speech
No question: in the Western world, offence is gradually trumping free speech. Consider four separate incidents, all of which occurred in the last...
Counting the costs of higher taxes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, jnr famously said that he liked paying income tax: it was the price of civilisation. Sure, he bought his civilisation at...
Westerners consumed by tech toys wallow in misplaced guilt
Concern for Chinese factory workers is patronising and simplistic. Nothing demonstrates how self-absorbed Western moral sensibilities are than the...