Time for some ‘truth telling’! What is Australia Day? Australia Day is a national public holiday observed on 26 January – the day of the landing of the First Fleet in 1788 in Port Jackson (Sydney Cove) – after a false start at Botany Bay – which became Australia’s first colony and evolved into the…
Category: opinion
Are our socialist kids our fault?
I see the rise of the infatuation with socialist, Marxist and communist ideologies in our young and realise it IS our fault. Decades of economic growth and prosperity in the west has led to complacency and an amnesia that this prosperity actually resulted from hard work. Enter the kids, who grew up in a time…
We all have our inner fascist
I saw this article in the Brisbane Times by Elizabeth Farrelly. Let’s be clear. You do not have a right not to be offended. On the contrary I, and you, have a right to offend. Indeed, freedom to offend is a right fundamental to democracy. … In banning even the public recognition of difference, political…