Category: Social Commentary
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Think they just want to change Australia Day? That is just the start…
There’s an old saying that rings true when I think about the annual Australia Day debate: ‘give them an inch and they will take a mile.’ Year upon year Australia endures its annual Groundhog Day of activist guilt tripping and grievance mongering. Shrill screams of ‘Invasion Day’ and ‘No Pride in Genocide’ pollute the streets…
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Why there needs to be more stigma around letting young kids use mobile phones
If you were out in public and saw a parent giving a cigarette to a toddler you would likely be calling the Department of Human Services, and rightly so. Yet there is pervasive use of another toxic item that most of us simply do not question enough: the smartphone. To be frank, it is…
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Make Australia Day the last Friday in January – long weekend every year!
Every year it is like Groundhog Day. January 26th draws nearer, and as the days count down, Australia undergoes its yearly ritual of shouting at each other from two camps. Australia Day versus Invasion Day. Scheduled January 26. Pick your side. I have previously advocated for Australia Day to remain where it is, but really,…
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Free speech or free market? The dilemma for conservatives after Trump’s Twitter Ban
For right of centre political thinkers, the debate about Donald Trump’s Twitter ban raises contradictory dilemmas that need careful thinking to be reconciled. On the one hand, there is the free market argument that Twitter, as a private company, has every right to ban whoever it wants from its own platform. On the other hand,…
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Debunking the left’s unhinged obsession with Murdoch
Sooner or later, like an inevitable sundown, a political argument with a leftist will end up with them sooking about the Murdoch media and how ‘evil’ it is. That name, Murdoch, has become the punching bag, the bogey man, the convenient hate figure for which all evil resides and all blame can be attributed to.…
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Should we make Google and Facebook pay for our news?
This may seem ironic and counterintuitive, but as an online content creator I completely support the proposed News Media Bargaining Code. For the uninitiated, the code will force Facebook and Google to pay news media businesses for using their content and be more transparent about their data and changes to algorithms. The downside for…
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Australia is wasting its opportunities around electric vehicles
Which country is the number one producer of the world’s lithium but has no national strategy for the electric vehicle industry? Which country has the world’s third largest deposits of lithium but no thriving battery manufacturing hub? That country would be Australia, and it is a national travesty. It is simply inevitable that the demand…
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Four policy ideas for Australia post COVID-19
Australia will not be the same society after COVID-19. No society will. In fact, framing the future as ‘post-COVID-19’ is perhaps too hopeful, since in all likelihood societies will just be learning to live with and manage the virus, as we do with other virulent threats to our wellbeing. But as we transition to a…
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Australians are learning how valuable teachers really are
Well that did not take long, did it? A couple of weeks and already many parents want schools re-opened because, shock horror, they have discovered that educating is not as easy as it looks. Take this contribution from an anonymous reader on The Age when asked about how homeschooling is travelling: An absolute nightmare! Three…
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Why you should download the coronavirus tracking app
Want the lockdown restrictions lifted within weeks? Then download the government’s COVID-19 tracking app. It is that simple. The app will be live tonight, and paradoxically, if Australians want their freedom back, they will need to be willing to allow the government a tiny window into their movements. This article explains why you should download…