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Editorial: Will Malcolm Turnbull sell out the Liberals on same-sex marriage?


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The sword is mightier than the pen

A fine piece by Melbourne author Anson Cameron on self-censorship in this age of Islamist violence:

Say what you will about the rights and wrongs of machine-gunning cartoonists at their easels, it is an invigorating lesson to those creative types…

I proposed a novel to a publisher in which a sexual encounter between two Australian schoolboys, one of them a Muslim, is secretly filmed and exposed on Facebook. There follows a sort of queer/religious...

The Betts way is best - although it won’t make him Australian of the Year

Rowan Dean on the power of not taking offence:

When [a] woman threw the banana at Eddie Betts, it was an incredibly offensive act. Or was it? Let’s assume for the moment that the woman did intend to harm Betts – not physically but psychologically…

Yet Betts simply refused to take the offence. In fact, not only did he simply shrug it off, he went on to actively forgive her for her insult. What a legend.

Compare that to the actions of the entire...

Column - No mercy for children: the cruelty of the “anti-racists”

THE persecution of a young fan of AFL star Nic Naitanui proves today’s anti-racist is now often just a bully.

Anti-racism, once a noble cause, has instead become a licence to humiliate even children.

First, these anti-racist hypocrites turned a 13-year-old girl into the “face of racism” in Australia and named and shamed her for yelling “ape” at AFL star Adam Goodes at the football.

Never mind that she said she did not mean the insult in a racist way...

Column - Why won’t Turnbull say it’s a plebiscite or nothing?

LIBERALS should panic about their Prime Minister. Is a wounded Malcolm Turnbull ready to destroy the Government over same-sex marriage?

Turnbull’s plan for a people’s vote — a plebiscite next February — to decide whether to legalise same-sex marriage is almost sure now to be blocked by the Senate.

Labor yesterday briefed journalists that it was preparing to vote against it. “I’m worried Malcolm Turnbull will just stuff it up,” said Labor leader Bill...

Koala one day, busy the next 10. How to catch up

It was a lovely weekend. All seemed quiet, but for a strange rustling in the trees on the side of our balcony:

I had to look closer before I could see the chubby visitor just three metres away:

But now for two weeks of pell-mell.

On The Bolt Report tonight on Sky News at 7pm: Pauline Hanson, plus Peta Credlin, Michael Costa and Campbell Newman.

ON SATURDAY: I’ll be speaking at Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas The topic: How Many Dangerous Ideas...

Pauline Hanson has arrived. She conquers 60 Minutes

I thought Pauline Hanson was mad to trust 60 Minutes with interviews. After all, it’s basically of the Left. It usually sneers at people like her. It can edit stuff to make even a saint look sick.

And remember how 60 Minutes stitched Hanson up when she was last in Parliament, two decades ago:

But I was wrong.

What a transformation we saw on tonight’s 60 Minutes, both in Hanson and how the program treated her - with respect and even affection. It was...

Book gets Grant

The book’s amazing world tour continues. Today reader Chris takes it to New York to show it the tomb of a man who certainly found something worth fighting for:

The pic is at Grant’s Tomb in a more peaceful part of Upper Manhattan. To get there I walked along 125th Street, aka Martin Luther King Jnr Boulevard. Sad to think that in Australia, and in the US, in 2016 you can be called a racist for agreeing with Dr King’s simple yet powerful dream of a nation...

Tips for Monday, August 29

Say it here.

The invasion of Germany continues: 250,000 more

More than a million last year, and now this:

The head of Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has told a German newspaper he expects a maximum of 300,000 refugees to arrive in Germany this year.

“We’re preparing for 250,000 to 300,000 refugees this year,” BAMF head Frank-Juergen Weise told Bild am Sonntag newspaper in comments due to be published on Sunday.

This is going to end very badly,