Kurt Mahlburg
Kurt Mahlburg is a husband to Angie, a father, a freelance writer, and a familiar Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He is the Senior Editor and a regular columnist at The Daily Declaration. More of his writings can be found at Mercator, Intellectual Takeout, The Spectator Australia, The American Spectator and Caldron Pool.
A published author, Kurt’s breakout title Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? explores the social and spiritual challenges facing Western nations and the hope Jesus offers in our crisis. Along with Warwick Marsh, Kurt has co-authored several other books, including Great Southland Revival, Power of Prayer, and Jesus: The Centre of It All.
Kurt is passionate about speaking the truths of Jesus into the public square in a way that makes sense to a secular culture and that gives Christians courage to do the same. He has previously studied architecture, worked as a primary school teacher, and served as a missionary and a young adults pastor. Among Kurt’s other interests are philosophy, history, surf, the outdoors, and travel. He hosts his own blog at Cross and Culture.
Articles by Kurt Mahlburg:
14 August 2023
4.1 MINS
Britain's speech laws are absurdly censorious. After this week's viral 'lesbian nana' video, the whole world is talking about the state of policing in the UK. The streets of Leeds are now safer thanks to seven brave UK police officers. Before dawn last Monday, the [...]
11 August 2023
3.7 MINS
In the latest embarrassment for Labor’s Voice referendum, the WA government has scrapped its toxic cultural heritage laws. In a spectacular backflip, the Cook Labor government has scrapped Western Australia’s contentious cultural heritage laws just five weeks after they came into effect. What began as [...]
11 August 2023
6.9 MINS
Canada’s euthanasia industrial complex provides a cautionary tale for other nations considering legalised assisted suicide. Canada legalised euthanasia in 2016. The law originally allowed assisted suicide only for people facing imminent death. Now anyone suffering severe pain or a disability can opt for euthanasia. Canada’s [...]
10 August 2023
4.6 MINS
The Uluru Statement is 26 pages long, but the Prime Minister hopes his referendum will pass by hiding its radical pages from the public. The Uluru Statement from the Heart is 26 pages long, not one. That is a fact, notwithstanding insults from the Prime [...]
10 August 2023
2.9 MINS
The writing is on the wall for Captain Cook’s Cottage in Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens. And I’m not referring to the graffiti that was applied to its historic facades in 2013: “Cappy Cook was a crook killer liar theif (sic)” — or again in 2014: “26th [...]
9 August 2023
3.3 MINS
The Prime Minister has told Australians the Uluru Statement's call for a Voice will unite Australia. An FOI request has revealed the opposite. The Uluru Statement — the document behind the Labor Government’s Voice Referendum — is actually 26 pages long and may require a [...]
7 August 2023
3 MINS
More revelations surface of the Biden White House abridging the freedom of speech of Americans, paralleling events in Australia. First there were the Twitter Files, now we have the Facebook Files. The Biden White House repeatedly pressured Facebook, in secret, to censor conservative news outlets [...]
4 August 2023
3.7 MINS
How should the church respond when health edicts try to close its doors? The way it always has, according to The Essential Church, a new film on Covid-era abuses.
2 August 2023
2.6 MINS
Yuval Noah Harari, a World Economic Forum luminary, claims that humans are 'hackable animals'. He is a man with dangerous ideas and friends in high places. “We humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls. We are now hackable [...]
2 August 2023
3 MINS
President Joe Biden’s election prospects look dim after further revelations he was directly involved in his son's alleged criminal activities. Hunter Biden sold direct access to his father Joe Biden who was Vice President at the time, according to bombshell testimony on Capitol Hill this [...]
1 August 2023
4.7 MINS
In public, top scientists said Covid-19 came from nature and called the lab leak a “conspiracy theory”. In private, they feared otherwise.
31 July 2023
2.4 MINS
Swiss researchers have discovered what no one is allowed to say out loud: the Moderna mRNA agent is far more dangerous than we were first told.
28 July 2023
5 MINS
Ahead of the controversial Voice Referendum, Australians have been given reason to doubt the integrity of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), thanks to its frivolous lawsuit against Craig Kelly.
28 July 2023
5.3 MINS
Transgender ideology is not going away. Understand the movement and how to respond by checking out this brand new documentary. Transgenderism was a fringe idea just a few years ago. Now it is a booming industry. It has been tempting — for Christians especially — [...]
27 July 2023
3.5 MINS
Australians were censored by their own government for telling the truth about Covid-19. And they paid over $1 million for it, according to a recent FOI revelation. Australian taxpayers paid $1 million to a foreign-owned entity that helped the Commonwealth censor factually correct posts about [...]
26 July 2023
3.6 MINS
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants a treaty, not just a Voice to Parliament. But he doesn't want Australians to know about it. With the ‘Yes’ vote for the Voice to Parliament still lagging in the polls, another series of revelations threatens to scuttle the Labor [...]
14 July 2023
4.1 MINS
A few years ago we were still debating if social media was biased. Now Facebook is proudly interfering in an Australian referendum. I am old enough to remember when people were genuinely unsure if social media companies were censoring conservatives. The rumour was out there [...]
13 July 2023
4.1 MINS
Teela Reid is the second Voice advisor to be exposed for her radical views. If the Voice is a "modest proposal", why did the Prime Minister choose Marxists to promote it? A second prominent member of the Prime Minister’s Voice Referendum Engagement Group, Sydney lawyer [...]
12 July 2023
3.7 MINS
Another major news outlet joins Team Reality, with the Wall Street Journal decrying Covid Censorship. Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a bold opinion column critiquing the hypochondria that swept the United States and other nations during the Covid era. Penned by Bret Swanson [...]
1 July 2023
2.4 MINS
The decades-long effort to remove racial discrimination from American society saw a major Supreme Court victory this week. The United States Supreme Court has struck down so-called “affirmative action” in a ruling that will have a lasting impact on college admissions programs across the United [...]





