On 1 July 2014, my first day as a Senator, Adelaide’s Advertiser newspaper published an opinion piece I had submitted titled, Shedding the ‘Bludger State’ tag, in which I implored the SA State Government to stop bludging on the other states and start...
Bob Day
There are two sides to every story – except when there aren’t
It’s been said that whatever is done to the Jews, is done for the Jews. In other words, when they come out of this current crisis, they will be stronger than before. Or to paraphrase an old Randy Pike quote: Throughout history, many have tried to bury the...
No Laffing Matter
An Australian was on holidays in the south of France. Strolling along outside his hotel, the Aussie was suddenly attracted by the screams of a young woman kneeling in front of a small child. The Aussie knew enough French to determine that the child had...
Aborigines here have the eternal key to reconciliation
One hundred years ago this year, four young Indigenous evangelists first preached the Gospel at Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) 200 km west of Alice Springs. Ikuntji is the home of the Western Arrernte, Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara people. The evangelists’ aim was to...
Prison Break
In 1946, Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and renowned author of the book Man’s Search for Meaning, proposed that the Statue of Liberty on the east coast of America be complemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the country’s west coast. He was later...
Oppenheimer
On the 14th of August, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was interviewed by Neil Mitchell on Melbourne’s 3AW. Part of the interview went like this:“Mr Albanese, if you were dictator, what’s the first thing you would do?”“Ban social media”, he replied....
Israel
From 1946 to 1948, my father served as a medic in the British Army in what was then known as British Mandate Palestine.Enacted by the League of Nations in 1919, the mandate was assigned to Britain at the end of World War 1 following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire....
Beam Me Up, Scotty
It is two years since we launched our ‘Family, Faith & Freedom’ campaign invoking that iconic TV series Star Trek.Since that time, each of these three foundational principles of Western Civilisation has been relentlessly attacked by three destructive and sinister...
The New Gulag
In his famous three-volume masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described the frozen wastelands of Siberia where political prisoners and dissidents the Soviet state considered dangerous were held (for their speech, not their actions). A gulag was...
Remembering Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (1817–1895) is considered by many to be America’s greatest African American. Along with Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King, these make up their top three.Born into slavery, Douglass became a free man and rose through the ranks to eventually...