Dark Emu’s feel-good factor trumps academic rigour
The rush to acclaim Bruce Pascoe’s book as a historical text, overlooking its fundamental flaws and inaccuracies, has also involved vilifying those who question its claims.
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Don’t blame podium-loving Palaszczuk for exacerbating the problem of over-50s holding out for the Pfizer vaccine. That fault lies solely with Winton.
Why would you feel sympathy for Folau?
Thanks, ABC, for reminding us Israel Folau is guilty of the worst crime … causing great offence while not actually committing an offence.
Victimising vaccine-hesitant won’t work
Harangue them your hardest, sneer at them – even threaten to curtail their rights – but you will achieve nothing, other than exacerbate the problem.
Gender quotas and an emasculated police force
Queensland embraced making half its recruits female. Nowhere in the resulting report are the words ‘policing is better for it’.
Fighting white privilege from the Chairman’s Lounge
Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe has taken her battle against oppression and colonisation to the mean seats of Qantas; Plus, Disney goes Snow Woke.
Q+A spreads mistruths on Indigenous history
To assert that patriarchy, misogyny were unknown in Australia before European settlement contradicts scientific findings.
A middle-finger salute to angry ideologues
Those who incessantly and noisily demand the world be adjusted to suit their wants and needs deserve a short reply.
Christians trigger the tolerati
After Nine’s sympathetic interview, it’s worth remembering Jenny Morrison was not the one who donned blackface in the 1990s.
League great’s death a reminder of a game now gone
No longer are NRL players the faces of what was once called the working class, but gone too is the humility that endeared footballers to supporters.
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