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To be Born an Untouchable One night, while an Indian man was away in a nearby city, a group of men came to his farm. They broke his fences, stole his tractor, beat his wife and burned down his house. He was a leatherworker and [...]

I still believe there is nothing you can change from outside; you can scream your head off, you can fight and no-one is going to take any damn notice if they don’t want to. Someone within the system has to stand up and put forward [...]

  But You, Sovereign LORD, help me for Your name’s sake; out of the goodness of Your love, deliver me. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. ~ Psalm 109:26-27 This is the strongest of what are known as [...]

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his [...]

Most Australians have never lived under an authoritarian dictatorship, and therefore we are largely ignorant of how quickly circumstances can descend. It was the great Russian novelist Alexander Solzenitsyn who resolutely warned against this kind of wishful thinking. In Live Not By Lies, Rod Dreher [...]

Polling booth figures in far north Queensland and the Northern Territory provide an insight into the extent to which Aboriginal people are used as “polling booth fodder” by the Australian Labor Party, Your Life Your Vote: Take Control said today. Your Life Your Vote: Take [...]

The world’s favourite atheist Richard Dawkins has said that faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse not to think or evaluate evidence. He has also likened religion to a mental illness. Atheism likes the spotlight. It has had a pop-culture resurgence in the last [...]

Over the weekend, unprecedented scenes emerged from the small island nation of Cuba, with thousands taking to the streets to demand freedom from 60 years of Communist tyranny. Crowds chanted, “We are not afraid!” and “Freedom!” — and called for an end to the impoverished [...]

American historian Daniel J. Boorstin once said that “the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” These words ring particularly true when we consider the behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry, or ‘Big Pharma’. Over the past two years, two [...]

Last year’s U.S. presidential election has been analysed backwards and forwards. But with so many layers to the story, it can be difficult to summarise all that took place -- beginning with the now-discredited claims that Trump cheated in 2016, through to Covid-19 and the [...]

In one of The Australian’s most-read articles over the weekend, RMIT Adjunct Professor Victoria Grieve-Williams had scathing words for Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, a book recently exposed for its fraudulent scholarship: In 2014, Bruce Pascoe, exhibiting zeal and showmanship, produced a book that has now [...]

Discover the untold Christian roots of the Australian Labor Party and the pivotal role Methodists and Catholics played in its formation and early success.

Our political, corporate and academic leaders like to tell us that we are ‘all in this together’. It’s a communitarian expression which we would like to think is true. In my younger days when I veered towards communism, that collective ideal was a strong one [...]

The crushing of the Aboriginal people by state-sanctioned fake leaders. 'I shall play the role of my State of Queensland, my Aboriginal race, my background, my political beliefs and my knowledge of men and circumstances dictate. This I shall do through the grace of God [...]

Australia’s digital news skews strongly to the left; ABC TV is favoured by left-wing viewers; and people with right-wing views tend to be stronger advocates for impartial, neutral and balanced news. These are among the many findings of a comprehensive report on news media consumption [...]

This new book by Voddie Baucham is essential reading: Voddie Baucham is a leading Black American Christian and conservative thinker. He was a former pastor in Texas, but now serves as Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia. His latest volume is [...]

Vandals have targeted at least 20 Canadian churches in recent weeks, burning five of them to the ground, as a wave of anti-Christian violence sweeps Canada. Most of the churches to suffer damage have been Catholic, and many are located on First Nations land. Attacks [...]

Facebook May Be Liable for Trafficking, Court Says On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Facebook may be held liable for sex traffickers who use its platform to prey on minors. The social media giant denies responsibility and claims it has no way to [...]

2018 speech: I wish to acknowledge the custodians of this land, the Turrbal clan of the Jagera people and their Elders past and present. I acknowledge their continuing culture, especially their contribution to Australian life. I recognise we are working on their traditional country. I [...]

Political prisoner Paul Furlong needs our support: Melbourne Pastor Paul Furlong has been released from jail after serving nearly three weeks for the unspeakable crime in Victoria of daring to hold church services. For that he was whisked away by a group of armed police, [...]