Daniel Andrews’ authoritarian policy, that all Victorian Authorised Workers must be vaccinated, parallels his attacks on the right of families to raise their children according to their beliefs and the freedom of religious organisations to employ people of their faith. The Victorian Premier’s October 1 vaccination declaration is state coercion, with few medical exemptions. It even applies to ministers of religion conducting a…

As the Morrison Government inches closer to a decision on supporting a net-zero emissions policy by 2050, the Government’s junior Coalition partner, the Nationals, is grappling with the dilemma of whether to join or resist. Over the past decade or so, the Nationals have held back on various schemes, the consequences of each would have stymied Australia’s competitive advantage in resources, increased the…

What is real? What does it mean to be human? All stories, all things made by human hands, respond to these questions. They attempt to grapple with it and engage with it. Many do so obliquely and implicitly, but not Disney’s Free Guy. It slams into them with the delicacy of a freight train operated by a juvenile mad scientist who’s had too…

No – I do not want to dress and act like a man, or regard a professional career as the be-all and end-all of life, or get an abortion in the name of freedom and empowerment. Neither do I want to be seen as oppressed, subservient to a man, and good for nothing but the kitchen. Is there some sort of “holy middle…