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Malcolm Turnbull’s choice

Malcolm Turnbull makes an appointment:

The role of racism, and the adequacy of the Northern Territory government’s response to reports into its juvenile justice system, will be examined by a royal commission formally established on Thursday.

The inquiry, to be led by former NT Supreme Court chief justice Brian Ross Martin, will principally examine the failings of the Northern Territory’s child protection and youth detention systems since 2006.

What I...

On The Bolt Report and radio tonight

On The Bolt Report on Sky News Live at 7pm tonight: 

Editorial - The ABC’s vilification of George Pell. 

My guests:

Anglican priest and Islam expert Mark Durie on the Christian response in this age of jihadism. And which Pope was right?:

Rowan Dean on Culture Wars.

The panel: former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman and former Julia Gillard adviser Nicholas Reece, now public policy fellow at Melbourne University.

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Which Pope was right?

The Pope has a moment of clarity. The question is whether it came before or after his adviser stepped in:

Pope Francis says the recent attacks on innocent people in Europe, including the murder of a priest in France, is proof that “the world is at war"…








“The world is in a state of war in bits and pieces,” he said, adding that the attacks could be seen as another world war, specifically mentioning World War I and II.

“Now there is this one (war). It...

John Stone: why Turnbull nearly lost and will never learn

John Stone in Spectator Australia’s new Flat White section:

The key to Turnbull’s whole career, including to his conduct of his hapless election campaign, is that he is a supreme narcissist....

Many Liberals have asked what happened to the big blue “L” for Liberal logo during the campaign? Don’t advertising experts tell us that widely recognized national “brands” like that are valuable? Why was it thrown away, and replaced by a strange new “halo” with the...

Column - Tell the full story first

YES, the footage shown by the ABC’s Four Corners of children in detention in the Northern Territory being abused was shocking.

The solitary confinement, the violent manhandling and the tear-gassing was disgraceful.

But let’s add perspective to better see our way forward.

Monday’s Four Corners opened with a particularly shocking scene of Dylan Voller, a teenager in Alice Springs, tied to a chair with a sack on his head.

No reason was given for what...

The sliming of Pell reaches new lows

The allegations are so very thin, so very old, so hotly disputed, so contrary to character and not deemed worthy of action by the Director of Public Prosecution. Indeed, Victorian Police have not even put the allegations to the target of them.

Yet Victoria Police still leaks them, apparently, to someone who then leaks them to the ABC, which devotes an entire program to this character assassination against a Catholic (while, of course, regularly turning a...

Why did Turnbull let this get this far?

How could Malcolm Turnbull have let this idiotic idea develop into a test of leadership?:

Kevin Rudd’s two-year bid for the post of UN secretary-general is expected to fail today because of strong cabinet opposition to the Turnbull government nominating the former Labor prime minister for the job.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is expected to raise Mr Rudd’s request for Australian endorsement for his campaign for the top UN post at the cabinet’s first full...

The price of naive immigration policies is very high

You cannot bring in people from a Third World war zone and expect a painless assimilation:

African youths causing a crime wave in Victoria are the product of eroded family units, trauma and an Australian society which does not sanction corporal punishment as a means of keeping them in line, claims a community leader.

Gangs of teenagers and young adults have been contributing to a surge in crimes, particularly in Melbourne’s east where carjackings,...

Column - Turnbull can’t be a real Liberal to think Rudd worth backing

LIBERALS should be shocked that Malcolm Turnbull wants to back Kevin Rudd’s bid to head the United Nations.

And don’t buy his denials. The Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop are helping the former Labor leader already. Diplomats report they have been asked to help Rudd lobby for votes in the ballot to become UN secretary-general.

But how can Liberals possibly allow Turnbull and Bishop to help an unworthy Labor foe to such a...

Europe’s summer of terror

Douglas Murray in the Spectator wonders why the media is so blind:

It is now a fortnight since Mohammed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and ploughed a truck along the Nice seafront, killing 84 people. The following Monday Mohammed Riyad, who said he was from Afghanistan but almost certainly came from Pakistan, screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’ while hacking with an axe at his fellow passengers on a Bavarian train. The next day another Mohammed, this time...