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Islamist child murders 50

An astonishingly depraved kind of morality confronts us when this is both the desired means and desired result:

A suicide bomber thought to be as young as 12 killed at least 50 people when he blew himself up among people dancing in the street at a wedding party in southern Turkey…

In comments shown live by broadcaster NTV, Mr Erdogan also confirmed that 51 people had died in the blast, and 69 were wounded in the attack on the Turkish city of Gaziantep,...

Column - A deadly lack of leaders

Is leadership now dead in Australia? Are our “leaders” now mere managers, just ticking boxes and following process?

Let me give two examples of this deadly managerialism from last week.

One shows the gutlessness of the Turnbull Government; the other is the astonishing revelation that NSW’s top police went home during the Lindt cafe siege.

First, the government.

The day Malcolm Turnbull challenged Tony Abbott to become Prime Minister he actually promised...

Gardening book

My book is on an odyssey, visiting the skulls of Montpellier, York Minster, Shanghai, Croatia, Ho Chi Minh City, Santorini, London, Lake Como, Ithaca, Scotland, the Bay of Naples, Dubrovnik, Fiji, Aileron, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, the Andes, the Northern Territory, the Whitsundays, Kalgoorlie and Condabri, Queensland, before invading Australia’s most Left-wing Parliament - an experience which convinced one reader at the Katharine River Mango...

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No, domestic violence isn’t just sexism with fists

Bettina Arndt says the Turnbull Government and feminist groups are peddling a falsehood - that domestic violence is caused by sexism, with men overwhelmingly the villains:

Just look at the bizarre $30 million television campaign the federal government ran a few months ago, which started with a little boy slamming a door in a little girl’s face. A series of vignettes followed, all about innocent females cowering from nasty males.

The whole thing...

Why didn’t the Loyal Deputy warn Malcolm Turnbull about Vietnam?

Where was Foreign Minister Julie Bishop? Why didn’t the Loyal Deputy warn the Prime Minister?

The Australian Government was aware for at least a week of Vietnam’s concerns about too many visitors to Long Tan, the commander of the unit that fought the battle says.

The Vietnamese Government cancelled Thursday’s memorial service for the 50th anniversary of Vietnam War battle, a move which was described as a shock and a “kick in the guts” by Veterans Affairs...

How does this wicked law help anyone involved?

Hedley Thomas on the frightening use of the Racial Discrimination Act to punish students who complained against racial discrimination at the Queensland University of Technology. How can any politician or journalist defend a law that encourages this kind of action?:

Cindy Prior[’s] ...  parents were Aboriginal… Married at 23, she had three children. She says she became sole carer of her now adult children ­following the 2014 death in a car accident of their...

Public servants gain as private sector workers struggle. This Ponzi scheme must fail

We’re borrowing billions to pay for a huge growth in public-sector jobs and wages - and at some stage the crunch will come:

Australian Bureau of Statistics wages data for the June quarter show the public sector is out-­competing the private sector for jobs. While the overall wages growth was the lowest on record, at just 2.1 per cent for the year, public-sector wages grew by 2.4 per cent.

Wages in the retail sector, Australia’s biggest employer, rose by...

Pure coincidence. “Mentally ill” Muslim stabs French Jew

I’ve noted before how politicians and police now prefer to blame mental illness rather than Islam for terrorist attacks by jihadists.

The latest example:

An Orthodox Jewish man has been stabbed on a street in the French city of Strasbourg by an attacker reportedly shouting an Islamic slogan.

Police arrested the suspected attacker who was heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” ...

Local police told BBC News the attack was “not terrorist-related”.

According to...

Barack plays golf. Hits into water hazard

Barack Obama played golf while Louisiana battled floods that have killed 13 people:

President Barack Obama meanwhile announced he is headed to Louisiana on Tuesday, after days of criticism from some in the southern state for not visiting during the week-long ordeal, which culminated with the Republican candidate on the ground and the president still on vacation.

In 2008, Obama attacked President George Bush for not visiting drowned New Orleans immediately:...