AFL commentator and ex-Power star Warren Tredrea has been informed by Justice Geoffrey Kennett that the Nine network was within its right to sack him for declining a Covid inoculation, and also for voicing his doubts about the vaccines' long-term safety. Seldom has a case cried so loudly for the High Court's intervention
Free speech is seriously threatened in Australia by Albanese & Co., the eSafety Commissioner and, sad to say, the Coalition. It behoves all who truly value democracy to oppose this spectacular power grab by those who aspire to expand their power and control over their fellow citizens
Gun violence is almost non-existent among the licensed firearm owners, yet WA Police are diverting massive resources from violent crime to the bureaucratic micromanagement of farmers, target shooters, collectors and other licensed owners. With crime rising, the constabulary's first instinct has been to focus on those least likely to offend
If you think Australia's eSafety Commissioner is out of line in slapping fines and sanctions on X, formerly Twitter, look to President Lula da Silva's partisan judiciary for a guide to where state-endorsed censorship inevitably leads. As elected politicians are fined and even imprisoned by unelected judges, Big Tech has mostly tugged the forelock to such tyranny, Elon Musk being the brave exception
When the Constitution's framers set to work all agreed the legal-institutional framework of their new nation should be under the Crown. Without going anywhere near making Australia a republic, the lease on Yarralumla being handed to a hack careerist and Labor apparatchik suggests it is a moment to regret that Sir George Grey didn't get his way