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What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (part 2)
Greg Sheridan (“Brexit would give Britain control of its borders again”, 28/5) expertly dissects the reasons for Britain leaving the EU. But he forgot the most important fact that shows the EU madness at its most inefficient — that in 2000, after 15 years’...

What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
I suspect that most people have probably never heard of the Lebanese Concession of the mid 1970's. This was a Malcolm Fraser immigration screw up and we are still paying the price today. The Lebanese Concession is the root cause of much of the crime, violence and...

Identity Theft

Random note #164,341— The Politics Of Inclusion. Who Could Possibly Argue With That?
With gender bending now reaching into Australian schools and teachers being told not to refer to girls as, well, um, er, girls and with the gender minority tail wagging the majority dog and forcing the majority to subscribe to the values, views and predilections of...
How about some chronology and context Obama?
In the 24/7 rolling and roiling fog of news and information these days it's very easy to lose track of the facts. The US would have continued to hit the snooze button through WW2 had it not been for one rather significant event, conveniently overlooked by Obama. The...
Their Silence Betokens Their Consent
To borrow and rework a line from Sir Thomas More in the 1966 movie Man For All Seasons, the silence of the political class be tokens their consent. The ramped up, aggressive, concerted and so far, successful attempts at family and general social dislocation,...
It’s Sunday In Mackellar

A Minister For Time
“the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” HL Mencken

You Couldn’t, Could You?
The choice is no choice but on July 2, you really, seriously couldn't, could you?

Ya Gotta Laugh. Enid Blyton’s Famous Five spoof books to be published
Ya gotta laugh.. Enid Blyton's Famous Five spoof books to be published