Morrison deserves credit for insisting accusations of Islamophobia must not shut down necessary debate. But if this conversation is to lead anywhere constructive, it must move beyond symbolic architecture and confront a harder truth
The problem is not academic freedom itself. The problem is that universities have forgotten what it means and, just as importantly, what it does not.
Instead of rushing to add new laws to an already swollen statute book, we should enforce rigorously and without hesitation the laws already in place.
What should Australia have done over the past two years to prevent this moment — and why was it not
done?
What we saw that Sunday at Bondi not only highlighted the immediate and palpable threats to Jewish communities in Australia but also signalled a greater sociopolitical undercurrent spreading across the Western world.
Whether Australia responds to the murders at Bondi with clarity or caution will reveal not only how it confronts antisemitism, but how seriously it takes the obligations of liberal democracy itself.
Each year, CIS gathers the most ridiculous examples of intrusioninto our lives, to find the winners of our annual Nanny State Awards.
Eight years after her first burqa stunt, Pauline Hanson pulled it out of the wardrobe department for another theatrical turn …
Tolerance is often treated as an unqualified virtue. But even virtues have limits. When men in black shirts marched outside …
Last weekend I was honoured to catch up again with Frank Lowy, surely Australia’s most successful 20th Century immigrant. I’d …