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:
21 May 2026
3.5 MINS
South Australia’s newly composed upper house — including three One Nation members — has pro-life advocates confident a bill to protect unborn babies after 25 weeks will clear its first hurdle.
19 May 2026
6.2 MINS
The Queensland government has made six attempts to dismiss the case. All appear to have failed. It now heads to trial with no evidence filed and no experts willing to defend the mandates.
19 May 2026
2.7 MINS
Six of seven technical experts backed the lab leak theory. Then came the 1:53 a.m. edit — and the conclusion became “we may never precisely know the origin of SARS-CoV-2”.
18 May 2026
3.4 MINS
Of 136 studies examining childhood vaccines or their components, 107 found evidence consistent with a link between vaccination and autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders.
15 May 2026
2.7 MINS
Sall Grover's appeal in Giggle v Tickle has failed, with the Full Federal Court doubling damages to $20,000 and ruling that sex is mutable under Australian law — a decision Grover says she will challenge in the High Court.
15 May 2026
3.9 MINS
Washington warned the United Nations didn’t just facilitate mass migration into the West but “redistributed our own people’s wealth and resources” to fund it.
14 May 2026
5.4 MINS
One 17-year-old hostage called her mother from Gaza: “Mum, they’re going to rape me.” Her testimony is one of 430 gathered by the Civil Commission as evidence of what it calls kinocide: Hamas’s deliberate weaponisation of family bonds to maximise suffering.
5 May 2026
5 MINS
A landmark US federal report has found the Biden administration systematically targeted Christians across seventeen government agencies — prosecuting pro-life grandmothers while ignoring church arsons, investigating Catholics as terrorists, and fining Christian universities more harshly than institutions that covered up child sex abuse.
5 May 2026
3.8 MINS
A former senior US health official faces federal charges for conspiring to hide evidence on COVID's origins — deleting records, dodging transparency laws, and taking kickbacks to protect Wuhan-linked research.
1 May 2026
3.6 MINS
A senior scientist identified 25 hidden COVID-19 injection safety signals but was told to “cease and desist” and was labelled “a major distraction” by the agency’s own leadership.
30 April 2026
2.7 MINS
When US congressman Brandon Gill asked a pro-abortion law professor to name her preferred abortion method this week, she declined. Every procedure he described is performed in Australia.
28 April 2026
3.6 MINS
While gagging doctors who questioned child ‘gender medicine’, Australia’s peak medical regulator was secretly planning to embed gender ideology into its regulatory processes over a three-to-five year horizon, even as it fought FOI requests to keep the details hidden.
24 April 2026
2.5 MINS
The NDIS is being exploited by traditional crime gangs, professional fraud syndicates and scheme-hopping networks, the agency said — and in some cases, allied health professionals are helping them do it.
22 April 2026
2.3 MINS
A recent poll of 1,500 Victorians found that 57 per cent oppose gender ideology in primary schools, with 73 per cent opposing puberty-suppressing drugs for children.
22 April 2026
3.9 MINS
God values both compassion, mercy and justice, and he has a way of holding them perfectly together for our eternal good. Moses discovered this firsthand on the mountain, where God passed before him, proclaiming his name and revealing his glory.
21 April 2026
3.5 MINS
With Australia’s fertility rate at 1.48 and falling, a new policy report from the Page Research Centre calls for sweeping reforms to childcare, tax, housing and migration.
17 April 2026
4.8 MINS
The Diocese has produced Australia’s most honest church COVID review, with one dissenting committee member pressing further, calling for a “Truth and Reconciliation Day” and apologies to those coerced against their conscience.
15 April 2026
2.6 MINS
A rare cross-party coalition of Conservatives, the NDP, and Greens opposed the bill — but couldn’t stop the Liberals and Bloc Québécois from passing it 186–137. The bill now heads to Canada’s Senate.
7 April 2026
2.7 MINS
A landmark Finnish study of more than 2,000 adolescents has dealt a serious blow to the central promise of the child ‘gender medicine’ movement.
2 April 2026
4.6 MINS
In a near-unanimous ruling, SCOTUS found that Colorado’s ‘conversion therapy’ ban discriminated by viewpoint — allowing pro-transition speech while silencing counsellors who affirm biological reality.





