CANCEL CULTURE is the social phenomenon of keeping a permanent record of wrongs and punishment with no option for forgiveness. Consequences usually include never being able to work in your profession ever again, and never being acknowledged by anyone in that...
Close to a century after Augustus seized power and made himself emperor, the common Roman citizen still believed their State remained a republic.The Roman senate continued to hold sessions and the Roman emperors continued to speak of themselves as consuls.Today,...
I found it. The most ridiculous thing you’ll see all week. TNL candidate for North Sydney, Victor Kline, filmed himself walking out into Sydney Harbour to complain about the water level which (weirdly) only rose as he trudged further out to sea. This is the same...
The issue of election fraud faced intense scrutiny following the 2020 United States’ presidential election. Though Donald Trump was unsuccessful in proving his now infamous allegations, some polls indicate that half of American voters remain suspicious that voter...
Senator Eric Abetz is a former Parliamentary Secretary for Defence, Chair of the Senate’s prestigious Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee and a member of the Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. Shelling facilities where mothers are giving birth is a...
In one of the more memorable scenes from the film Amazing Grace (one of my favourite movies), William Wilberforce, the famous anti-slavery campaigner, stands on the deck of a slave ship trying to convince a boatload of aristocrats of the evils of the slave-trade....
If there was any part of the Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) agenda that I could support, it would be Inclusion. Unlike Diversity and Equity, which are logically flawed ideals that pit themselves directly against undeniable realities about life on planet earth,...
In January President Joe Biden announced that he would be nominating a black woman to fill a vacancy on the US Supreme Court. When I initially heard that, I thought he was starting a game of ‘who am I?’ and was listening eagerly for the next clue, but it soon became...
I was waiting in the foyer of a multinational oil and gas company’s Australian headquarters, the twenty-seventh floor of a high-rise in Brisbane. There was plenty to look at while I waited. Artful displays of early-era petrol bowsers acknowledged the past, and a...
“The first person to speak in court always seems right until his opponent begins to question him.” We should hold onto this profound wisdom which is the foundation of the right to examine witnesses. It is found in the Good Book at Proverbs 18:17. The capacity to test...
A friend of mine recently openly scoffed at me when I mentioned that eugenical thinking was animating the current pandemic response. And because her thinking is likely to be shared by many others, I thought it might be worth explaining why I think this is so. If you...
It has been a long time since a bloke walked into a Chinese wet market and purchased a serving of bat soup. Two years into the Covid saga and the world has sunk into the worst possible version of itself. I hope cosmologists are right about there being parallel...
Irrational fear is quite something to behold. I continue to be amazed by how many fully vaccinated Australians remain ‘so terrified’ of the unvaccinated that they have demanded workplaces sack them. That’s right, the person you sat next to for eight years is suddenly...
Limited Government and Civil Disobedience in the Western Legal Tradition The idea that laws must protect the basic rights of the individual was first advocated by medieval scholars, then reshaped by the likes of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson, and then invoked in the...
Senator Alex Antic is a member of the Morrison Govt and has demanded the PM stop the vaccine mandates, & will not support any Govt bills until he does. Dave Pellowe chatted with Senator Alex Antic this afternoon about what the Federal Govt could and should do to...
Former Premier Campbell Newman joins Dave Pellowe live to discuss Annastacia Palaszczuk's generous gift of freedom to selected people she won't further imprison.What a gal'! You can enjoy more Good Sauce articles and shows by subscribing to the Good Sauce podcast on...
The law. It is an ass, according to an old saying, usually employed to give expression to our frustrations when we don’t or can’t understand its ways.As someone who enjoyed the practice of law in a former life, the law still holds a deep and profound interest and...
Identity politics is intellectual bludging.I did a quick search to make sure I was using that correctly and: yep, I am. To bludge is to shirk responsibility and live off the efforts of others.But before I point the finger at the usual perpetrators of identity politics...
With the end of Gladys Berejiklian’s reign as Premier of NSW comes a new era, one that will centre on a man named Dominic Perrottet. Perrottet, who has to this point been the Treasurer of the State, has emerged as the strongest contender for the Premiership, a...
Every eight minutes, Australia records a cybercrime. In total, 67,500 cybercrimes were reported last year. One assumes others go unreported. None of us is immune from this criminal activity. Last year these attacks increased by 13%. It costs us. Lots. $33 billion last...
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One of the most tiresome arguments I have been hearing from Christians of late is the invocation of God to justify taking the COVID-19 vaccine. There have been people using Biblical passages and crafting them into a means of persuading other Christians who do not wish...
I knew this day would come. I just didn’t think it would come so soon. It has now been announced by the New South Wales government that, once we reach the threshold of 70% fully vaccinated, places of worship will be permitted to reopen, but only to those who are fully...
On 3 August 2021 , Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an alleged victim of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, filed a lawsuit against Prince Andrew in the Federal Court in New York. Ms Giuffre now resides in Australia. She accuses Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her at...