The raunchy medieval literary classic, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccoccio (1313-75), has nothing on the sordid tryst between the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and disgraced Liberal MP Daryl Maguire. More than a little appropriately, both are set in a time of plague. But more broadly, ...read more
2020 has been an incredibly difficult year. But of deeper concern, than even COVID-19, is the growing threat that Critical Race Theory -- popularly expressed as being ‘woke’ -- has had upon much of Western society. Leftist thinking that was once quarantined within the ivory ...read more
Intention The hearts of our leaders are directed by God, which means that prayer is our most powerful political weapon. Scripture “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.” —Proverbs 21:1 Reflection I’ll never ...read more
How Mike Pence conducted himself in the recent vice-presidential debate with Kamala Harris has reaffirmed my confidence in Western democracy. Pence was a model exemplar in statesmanship, rhetorical skill and political intelligence. The conservative Australian commentator, Sydney Watson, summed up the Pence phenomenon best when ...read more
In what must amount to the now complete exoneration of Cardinal George Pell, both The Australian and The Times UK are reporting that: A senior Catholic cardinal has been accused of using €700,000 ($1.14m) of Vatican funds to bribe witnesses to secure a sex abuse conviction ...read more
One of my sons was coaching a year 4 and 5 boys sports team recently when -- in one of the rest breaks -- they all broke out into the song and dance moves of Cardi-B’s WAP. Just stop and let that sink in for ...read more
As has been well-documented, pornography is a massive problem in today’s world. Whereas in previous years the challenge was how to access it, the issue now is how to avoid it. And the innovation of the internet has contributed to its ubiquity. In response, there ...read more
This week’s Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden signalled a new nadir in public discourse. Like so many others, I literally switched off after approximately twenty-minutes. I just couldn’t take any more. In a sign of how crazy things have become, the following ...read more
In a year of ongoing global protests involving Black Lives Matter™, any artwork addressing racial inequality was always going to be popular. But the fact that Vincent Namatjira’s piece has won the 2020 Archibald Art Prize is ironically, a self-portrait of the systemic racism currently ...read more
Amy Coney Barrett. That’s the woman President Trump is nominating to be the next Supreme Court Justice, replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At only 48 years old, this is an appointment that is truly once in a generation. According to The Weekend Australian, “Barrett is deeply ...read more