Paul Hogan, the larrikin legend behind Crocodile Dundee, has weighed in on Australia's multiculturalism debate from his primary home in Los Angeles, calling Pauline Hanson a "pelican," "outrageous," and "racist," accusing her of living in the past, and declaring his desire to die in a "multicultural Australia." Prime Minister Anthony Albanese quick...

With a 5-4 decision that should alarm every Westerner concerned with borders, citizenship, and the long-term survival of the American republic, the U.S. Supreme Court has once again entrenched a maximalist interpretation of birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, in powerful dissents, cut th...

 In the outer suburbs of Melbourne where the gum trees stand sentinel over decades of family life, one notices patterns that the glossy pages of The New York Times only hint at. A recent article in that outlet, "Older Adults Are No Longer Staying in 'Empty Shell' Marriages," captures a real phenomenon: the sharp rise in "gray divorce": splits ...

There was a time when the weather was one of the few things capable of uniting humanity. Rain fell on conservatives and progressives alike. Heatwaves ignored political affiliations. Storms paid no attention to race, religion, or gender. Mother Nature, despite the name, was gloriously impartial. Apparently, that is no longer good enough. Recent comm...

A Dutch professor has declared that time is racist. In a paper that sounds like a parody but is depressingly real, the academic argues that Western concepts of linear time, punctuality, schedules and deadlines embody "whiteness" and colonial oppression. "White time" supposedly marginalises non-Western, more "relational" or cyclical understandings o...

 Verena Brunschweiger, the German feminist author and self-proclaimed "childfree icon," has made a career out of urging people, mainly white Westerners, to stop having children. Her slogan "My bloodline ends with me" is presented as responsible, enlightened, and morally superior. In recent interviews she doubles down: pro-natalist voices like ...

 Australian universities, once proud institutions dedicated to the pursuit of truth, rigorous scholarship, and the transmission of Enlightenment values: reason, evidence, free inquiry, and intellectual excellence, are in steep decline. They are getting dumber, and dumber still. Standards have eroded, basic English proficiency among graduates i...

Australia is now in the grip of bird flu hysteria. Reports of avian influenza outbreaks have triggered mass culling orders, movement restrictions, and biosecurity crackdowns that treat backyard flocks and commercial operations with the urgency of a national emergency. Healthy birds, productive layers and prized breeders, are being preemptively dest...

 Modern medicine regards organ transplantation as one of its greatest triumphs. Hearts, lungs, kidneys and livers routinely save lives; yet alongside this remarkable success an intriguing body of anecdotal reports refuses to disappear. Some transplant recipients claim that after surgery they developed new tastes in food, altered emotional disp...

 Feminism sells itself as liberation, a path to empowerment, equality, and fulfillment. In reality, it has produced generations of angry, discontented, and often deeply unhappy women. As Janice Fiamengo compellingly documents in her recent essay "Bad Choices, Anger, and Mental Illness," the movement's leading lights have long exhibited pattern...

Here is a proposal for a right to bear arms for Australia, via constitutional amendment, and also for America to. There is little chance of something like this getting up in our hyper-liberal woke feminist society, but it is still an interesting thought experiment see if one can draft a piece of legislation that escapes the usual attacks, like the ...

An ABC program called Stuff the British Stole has now stooped to recruiting high school students to redesign the Australian flag, stripping out the Union Jack and replacing it with green and gold, kangaroos, indigenous suns, and ocean symbols, all in the name of being "more inclusive" and "more multicultural." One student explained they removed the...

Imagine transporting four figures to a typical Western city in 2026: a farmer or tribal leader from around 1026 BCE in the ancient Near East or early Greek world; a Roman paterfamilias or citizen from the Republic era two and a half millennia ago; an American founder or contemporary from 1776; a veteran or citizen from 1926; and your own grandfathe...

The standard defence of gain-of-function research runs something like this: nature is already churning out dangerous pathogens, so scientists must deliberately engineer more dangerous versions in the lab to understand their weaknesses and prepare defences, just in case one emerges naturally or, heaven forbid, leaks from the very laboratory where it...

The New York Times has once again revealed the trembling anxiety at the heart of progressive elite opinion. A recent style-section piece (masquerading as serious journalism) fixates on the simultaneous pregnancies of three prominent women connected to the Trump White House: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Katie Miller (wife of Stephen Miller), an...

"Far from being the tale of near-genocidal oppression, the better story of Australia is how a convict colony, within a century, not only had the world's highest standard of living but was actually the world's leading pioneer of liberal democracy." The history of nations, how it's presented, and how it's thought of, matters to countries and their ci...

For decades we have been told that adults need eight hours of sleep each night, almost as though nature handed Moses a second set of tablets specifying the correct bedtime. The advice has become one of those pieces of conventional wisdom repeated so often that few people stop to ask where it came from or whether it applies equally to everyone. Yet ...

NSW Premier Chris Minns recently offered a remarkably candid window into the governing philosophy of modern Australia's political class. Speaking on free speech restrictions, he stated: "I acknowledge that we don't have the same free speech rules that they have in the United States and I make no apologies for that, we have got a responsibility to k...

Doomscrolling has become one of the defining habits of the digital age. It describes the seemingly endless process of swiping through social media feeds, news websites, X posts, podcasts, and video clips filled with war, economic instability, institutional failures, cultural conflict, scientific controversy, political dysfunction, and predictions o...

Mary Holland's recent guest editorial in The Defender makes a compelling case against the growing practice of scientific retraction. She argues that retraction often operates less as a safeguard for truth and more as a modern form of censorship, a collective "stoning" by journals that removes inconvenient findings from the record rather than allowi...