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Claire Lehmann is an Australian journalist, publisher, and the founding editor of Quillette. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and English and is considered one of the leaders of the intellectual dark web.

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(FILES) Dr. Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. Hundreds of Harvard faculty have signed a letter backing the university's president after her testimony at a congressional hearing on the rise of campus anti-Semitism ignited pressure for her to resign, a US newspaper reported December 10. The letter backing Claudine Gay, which was reported on by the Boston Globe, came after her counterpart at another Ivy League university stepped down on Saturday in the face of withering criticism and political pressure over their appearance at Tuesday's hearing. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

University elite caught playing ‘selective free speech’

The Ivies need to understand the principle of free speech is not one that can be applied selectively. It applies to everyone, or it does not apply at all.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 30, 2023: Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young and Senator Barbara Pocock hold a press conference on the MurrayÃ¢â¬âDarling basin at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Women’s rights a selective cause for loudest of the left

The freedoms of non-citizens with criminal records have come into conflict with the right of female and child citizens to be kept safe.

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Flames rise from a car and a bus, set alight at the junction of Bachelors Walk and the O'Connell Bridge, in Dublin on November 23, 2023, as people took to the streets in protest following the stabbings earlier in the day. Protesters in Dublin on Thursday torched a car and fought police, an AFP journalist reported, after three children were injured in a suspected school stabbing that social media rumours attributed to a foreign national. (Photo by Peter MURPHY / AFP)

Housing crisis will only fuel immigration backlash

Australia’s housing crisis has been building for decades. Record-smashing immigration is turning the crisis into something we have never seen before.

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This photo taken on November 21, 2023 shows members of the Australian Palestinian community holding flags and placards during a protest at the Port Botany terminal in Sydney. Police have announced on November 22 they have charged 23 people from the protest, claiming they tried to block a road leading into the port facility. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Mid-East war drives global schism on the left

Centre-left politicians, who stand firm against the extreme views on their left, deserve recognition, even when we might disagree with them on other matters.

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For the sake of the kids, it’s time we delete TikTok

Australian politicians have the opportunity to achieve an easy win. The curtailment of TikTok will be welcomed by almost all parents and even kids.

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Penny Wong with Mashni from the Paletinian lobby.

New wave of anti-Semitism rolls in from the left

Penny Wong’s tendency to draw moral equivalences seems to be increasingly habitual.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 08, 2017 Activists protest the Trump administration and rally for women's rights during a march to honor International Woman's Day in Washington, DC. - It's that time of year when radio stations across the United States are playing Christmas music nonstop. But one classic holiday song is proving too controversial for some stations in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Feminism is no guarantee of women’s happiness

The problem is not the sexual revolution, but the refusal to acknowledge our inherent differences.

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Members of the Syrian Civil Defence (White Helmets) survey the area following a Russian air strike, at a camp for those displaced by conflict on the outskirts of the rebel-held village of al-Hamamah in the district of Jisr al-Shughur in thr west of Syria's northwestern Idlib province on October 24, 2023. Six people, including two children, were killed on October 24 in Russian strikes on a displacement camp in Syria's northwest, the country's last main rebel bastion, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Tensions have soared in the rebel-held area since a drone attack on a military academy graduation ceremony in Homs earlier this month killed dozens of people, with the government blaming

Selective outrage exposes ignorance, contempt for Israel

The pro-Palestinian movement claims it marches in defence of Palestinian life. But what we’ve learned is the only deaths that matter are those that can be blamed on Israel.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. OCTOBER 14, 2023: The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Linda Linda Burney hold a press conference after the Voice to Parliament was defeated in the referendum at Parliament House in Canberra VOICEREF23. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Get these four things right, PM, then we’ll talk legacy

Now that the proposal to change the Constitution has been defeated, the Albanese government stands at a critical juncture. Its priorities from this week onwards will determine its legacy.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY 22, 2021: Photo of people rlly in support of the Palestinian people in Melbourne Picture: NCA NewsWire / Luis Ascui

Silence over Hamas hate shames our politicians

For those of us who are not well versed in Islamist ideologies or in anti-Semitism, absorbing the scale of the violence and the subsequent celebrations in response to it has been difficult.

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