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Hate Speech Laws Hit the High Court: The Crushing of Australian Dissent
Mired in scandal and plummeting in popularity, the Albanese government is desperate to crush free speech in Australia any way it can. Australia’s new hate-speech laws, rammed through Parliament with almost no public consultation and the full support of the Opposition,...
Fat Daddy: Three Broken Families, One Broken System
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The Welcome Wears Thin: Australia’s Mass Immigration Outruns Cohesion
There is no hotter issue in Australia today than mass migration. The public sentiment has soured dramatically. A once reasonably successful immigrant nation has become hostile to strangers, and the divide between the nation’s political elites and the average citizen...
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Australia’s rules-based disorder
The international rules-based order faces a crisis of credibility, raising an uncomfortable question for Australia: does the Albanese government genuinely believe in international law, or only when defending it doesn’t have any consequences?The controversy surrounding Navi Pillay, the Nobel Peace Prize and Israel’s conduct in Gaza exposes a deeper struggle
The Albanese doctrine: a failure of political leadership
Australian governments have always wanted to have the prestige of moral leadership without the small troublesome matter of having to exercise it – it always provides lectures to others about international law, human rights and the need for a “rules-based order”, but then becomes quiet when applying those principles requires
Australia’s double standards on human rights and the selective conscience of Albanese and Wong
Navi Pillay is a highly respected jurist from South Africa, was a judge on the High Court of South Africa, a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and, more recently, a member of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.And she’s been awarded the 2026