Racist Labor?

Foreign Minister Penny Wong recently told an audience at King’s College in London that we should hear uncomfortable stories rather than stay ‘sheltered in narrower versions of our countries’ histories’. 

Taking Wong’s advice in the context of the Australian Labor Party’s virtue signalling over ‘the Voice’, it seems timely to recall the uncomfortable truths of Labor’s historical support for the White Australia policy.

To read more, please click here

https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/02/racist-labor/

• Image from https://www.naa.gov.au/learn/learning-resources/learning-resource-themes/society-and-culture/migration-and-multiculturalism/australian-labor-party-supports-white-australia-policy 

The Church in Ukraine

 I have co-authored a brief article with Senator Dean Smith about the Church in Ukraine.

It's amazing what role the Church has had in Ukrainian culture, going right back to the days of Kievan Rus.

To read, please click on

https://therecord.com.au/news/local/the-church-in-ukraine-at-the-forefront-of-relief-efforts/

Let's Cheer for Change: The Need for University Reform.

University reform is needed urgently to improve teaching standards, curricula, and academic freedom...... 

My first article for the IPA Review discusses the state of Australian universities and their need for serious reform.

https://ipa.org.au/ipa-review-articles/lets-cheer-for-change

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Image Credit, 

Jason Tong, Wikimedia Commons,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_Quadrangle,_University_of_Sydney.jpg 

Have ‘Catholic Gut’? That’s a Good Thing

"What is the “Catholic gut” that the now-former chief executive of Clubs NSW ascribed to New South Wales (NSW) Premier Dominic Perrottet? It is a set of values inspired by Jesus Christ. They include faith, hope and love, a sense of fairness, an abhorrence of hypocrisy, and the imperative to stand up for what is right, even when it means confronting powerful oppressors. ..." 

Fore more, please read my article Have ‘Catholic Gut’? That’s a Good Thing, at the Epoch Times. 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/have-catholic-gut-thats-a-good-thing_5035838.html

"Pharisees of the New Age: Environmentalists and How They Went Wrong."

 I have written a piece for the Dawson Centre, titled, 

Pharisees of the New Age: 

Environmentalists and How They Went Wrong. 

It's in the centre's newsletter (about 1/2 way down the page). I wrote it after it struck me that both the environmental and Pharisee movements started out with good intentions but they became corrupted and they neglected their original mission.

https://www.dawsoncentre.org/newsletter/summer-schools-2023/