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I recently discovered that the grandfather of a colleague survived the Auschwitz Death Camp. On the same day, I was reminded about the various persecutions within China from a member of Australia’s Falun Gong community. Both, coming so close upon the heels of my attendance [...]

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 [...]

Australia faces the most dangerous and uncertain region since the Second World War. This is the stark conclusion of the Defence Strategic Review which was released on the eve of Anzac Day. The conclusion is not new: co-author Sir Angus Houston, 75, the former Chief [...]

Children and adolescents destroyed most of Western Australia’s juvenile detention centre, with then Premier Mark McGowan dismissing the mental disabilities of the majority of detainees as “no excuse” for their actions. More than half the centre’s juvenile detainees broke out of their cells and began [...]

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. This is so strange, I thought to myself. A colleague had asked Microsoft’s new Bing chatbot to create a picture of people reading the Bible. Even by the standards of our post-Christian world, you would expect such a [...]

Fatherlessness is a growing problem in the Western world. Whether caused by divorce and broken families, or by deliberate single parenting, more and more children grow up in Australia without fathers. Concerned groups have argued that a mother and father are crucial in the raising [...]

by Andrew Hastie Our large and ever more powerful northern neighbour poses to Australia both public policy and strategic questions that must be answered urgently. This very important issue is going to affect not just our generation but generations to come. China is a growing [...]

Parents are raising the alarm that some high schools are “crossing the line” in not only supporting students to socially transition to the opposite sex without their parents’ knowledge, but actively encouraging children to question gender identities. Concerned teachers say “wellbeing coordinators” stationed within public [...]

First, it was the takeover of the Calvary Hospital in the ACT. Now it is the planned removal of payroll tax exemptions for many independent schools in Victoria. These actions by state and territory Labor governments denote a marked hostility towards the not-for-profit activities of [...]

An extremely revealing and disturbing television documentary was aired on America’s Public Broadcasting System in February 2001. Entitled The Merchants of Cool, the show examined the way big business and the advertising industry have targeted our young people. More specifically, it explores the way youth [...]

In the sensationalised world of free-to-air television, mostly contrived at best or outright garbage at worst, Helping Hands is an absolute breath of fresh air. Richard and the team at Australian TV & Media Group work hard to deliver a weekly show celebrating the people [...]

Editor’s Note: Please find this heartfelt story below by Bill Muehlenberg about his wife’s funeral. The team at the Canberra Declaration were represented at Averil Muehlenberg's funeral on 17 July 2023 in Melbourne by Warwick Marsh. Bill Muehlenberg, pictured here with Dr Graham McLennan, Warwick [...]

by Lucas McLennan In 2022, the National Conservatism project’s Statement of Principles generated a lot of debate in conservative circles in Europe and North America. At their best, the principles envisaged a conservatism disentangled from a classic liberal understanding of the state, culture, freedom, and [...]

Newsweek poll finds almost half of millennials think so! A poll published in Newsweek has found that 44 percent of America’s 25-34-year-olds believe misgendering someone should be a criminal offence. I’m starting to believe that being a millennial should be a crime. My dog is [...]

For millions of people worldwide, TikTok is a popular social media site that allows them to upload their favourite video clips. Ranging from just three seconds to ten minutes, the videos are shared by a multitude of people each day, of which 40 percent are [...]

When Donald Trump ordered McDonald's to the White House back in 2019, the media went nuts. It was tacky. It was classless. It was unbecoming, they said. But when cocaine was found in Joe Biden’s White House this month, the media were completely incurious. Someone [...]

The debate over Australia’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament is heating up. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has endorsed the Uluru Statement from the Heart’s request for an Indigenous Voice to (Federal) Parliament, while Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is against it.  My own Church, the Sydney Anglican Church, endorsed a resolution late last [...]

Wise advice for social media users. If anyone wanted to write a book on internet etiquette, and how to proceed sensibly and wisely on social media, they should look no further than to the Bible in general, and the book of Proverbs in particular. There [...]

This is the finale of my exploration of Globalism and Nationalism.  When I found this video of John Anderson interviewing Yoram Hazony, I could not have been happier! It is a tremendous capstone to what I would argue is one of the most important issues [...]

Editors’ note: The Daily Declaration does not have an official position on the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, but we do encourage Christians in this, as in all areas of their lives, to respond to the coming referendum in worship to God and love of their [...]