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Turnbull reneges on same-sex marriage plebiscite date

I hardly care if it’s this year or next, but why break a virtual promise not two months after the election - and before you’ve kept any of the other promises made?

PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull will announce a ­national plebiscite on same-sex marriage in Australia for February 2017, dumping his election pledge for a vote by the end of the year.

And here’s another implied promise that may be broken:

Senior cabinet ministers ­remain opposed to public...

River 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...

Kenny’s false dichotomy. Maybe he sells out free speech simply because he’s clueless

Is Mark Kenny racist or stupid?

Andrew Bolt ...  rushed to the oppressed Leyonhjelm’s defence, being in no doubt the senator had been racially vilified by the suggestion of his “angry white male certitude”: “The Fairfax journalist responsible for this boorish racist insult is angry white male Mark Kenny,” wrote Bolt in his unfailingly angry blog…

It’s either racist to refer to white male certitude, or it is nanny-state overreach to have laws which prohibit...

Tips for Sunday, August 21

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UPDATE

I thought director Peter Sellars must be overrated. But then I saw this utterly marvellous and reverential realisation of Bach’s St John Passion:

I’m hoping now to see what he did with the rest of the Matthew Passion

A Speccie read

Great reading in the latest Spectator Australia, in news agencies now.

Former Labor Minister Gary Johns:

The ACT government abolished the crime of blasphemy in 1996. Earlier this month, they brought it back. Religious vilification is now a crime in the ACT…

According to Green MP Shane Rattenbury, former International Political Director of Greenpeace International, religious vilification is simply not acceptable in the ACT. So he introduced an...

Turnbull too busy to let you speak

Malcolm Turnbull has not achieved a single thing of substance in 11 months as Prime Minister. Yet his excuse for not honoring his promise to increase free speech is that he’s just too busy:

It is not a priority for us. Can I just emphasise this: we have a very extensive legislative program with the policies we took to the election.

He now has priorities?

Then this excuse, which could work just as easily to put off action on same sex marriage or...

Domestic violence just got a whole lot worse, but not

Surely this is trivialising real domestic violence?

Criticising housework and withdrawing affection are defined as domestic violence in the first national guidelines for judges and magistrates.

The new “bench guide’’ for courts released by Attorney-General George Brandis yesterday spells out what can be considered family violence – ranging from physical attacks to yelling or criticising a partner’s appearance or threatening to have an affair.

Expanding...

And Still Not Sorry

Thanks for your support for Worth Fighting For. A second printing is under way, but - encouraged - we’re now also reprinting Still Not Sorry, my 2005 collection of columns and reflections, with a new preface. It sold out then but can now be pre-ordered here.  On-line buyers of Still Not Sorry will - like on-line buyers of Worth Fighting For receive the semi-regular Bolt Bulletin.

The fourth edition of the Bolt Bulletin went out this week. It includes...

Tips for Saturday, August 20

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Why does the ABC promote Islam, not Buddhism, Christianity or Jews?

Reader Matthew is wondering why the ABC is proselytising for Islam.

A really interesting occurrence on the ABC’s the Drum this week. Every night so far a Muslim leader has appeared as a commentator:

Monday 15th Lebanese Muslim Association’s Mostafa Rachwani

Tuesday 16th Muslim educator Silma Ihram

Wednesday 17th Ali Kadri from the Islamic Council of Queensland

Thursday 18th Maha Abdo from the Muslim Women’s Association

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