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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 [...]

Earlier this week we reported on the historic anti-communist protests taking place in Cuba, along with the weak response from the Biden administration. The White House has been criticised for its delay in commenting on the demonstrations, and also for mischaracterising them merely as protests [...]

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 [...]

A new Indigenous organisation -- Your Life Your Vote: Take Control -- was launched last week on 8 July 2021, with the aim of stopping the Labor Party, the Greens, and other extreme Left-wing political movements from using Aboriginal votes to pursue ineffective economic policies [...]

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 [...]

Munganbana Norman Miller, Convenor of the Voice of First Nations Peoples Against Euthanasia, said from Cairns today: “We need to protect our elders, First Nations and others, from the Queensland government’s plans to legalise euthanasia in the form of Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation, and I [...]

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 [...]

One of the more disturbing features of modern society is the practice of crony capitalism: ‘a capitalist society that is based on the close relationships between business people and the state’. An obvious consequence of crony capitalism is that products and services which are not [...]

1. In 1967, Prime Minister Harold Holt appointed H.C. Nugget Coombs as Chairman of a new Council of Aboriginal Affairs. 2. In 1972, the Whitlam Government established the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, which was to become the first national body elected by Aborigines. Although its [...]

A defector from North Korea warns about the war on freedom in the West: Incredibly, there have been a few brave souls that have actually managed to escape the godless hellhole and communist concentration camp that is North Korea. One of them is 27-year old [...]

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 [...]

The South Australian Liberal Party received more media attention than it anticipated by rejecting the membership applications of 150 people on suspicion of their ties to certain churches, and indicating they would demand proof of party loyalty from 400 more. Long-term Liberal members expressed their [...]

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978) was the founder of the Liberal Party. He remains Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister and one of our nation’s most articulate statesmen. Menzies was a Presbyterian, and his Christian convictions shaped him and his social and political views profoundly. In and [...]

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, [...]

Very few people talk of freedom and its relationship to responsibility. Over the centuries, family has revealed itself to be this kind of freedom; one that takes dedication, commitment and self-sacrifice. Family takes responsibility and even a level of self-restraint to hold back your own [...]

An excerpt from Kurt Mahlburg’s book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? ~~~ Conventional wisdom today says that people are entitled to their religious beliefs, so long as they keep these views out of politics. Under this logic, the public square should be [...]

In recent days, churches around the nation marked Religious Freedom Weekend with prayers for persecuted believers abroad and better protections for people of faith here in Australia. Meanwhile, the South Australian Liberal Party moved to either cancel or challenge hundreds of new party membership applications [...]

On China now allowing three children per family, Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., said, “In terms of falling fertility, China has probably passed the point of no return. But it should still end all controls on family size. Government has no business [...]