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The United States does not see an imminent threat of China invading Taiwan, but aggressive expansion in the Indo-Pacific is damaging regional stability, U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told Reuters on Thursday (March 23) in Singapore.

Whatever your views on an Indigenous Voice, today is a monumental day, says Sky News host Chris Kenny. “It’s the day laws passed to hold the referendum, with the support of the Coalition by the way, and of course when the Prime Minister announced the final wording of the Voice proposition,” Mr Kenny said. “As you know, I've backed the […]

Referendum Working Group Tony McAvoy SC discusses Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s revealing of the Voice to Parliament referendum wording. “I’m happy with the outcome; the Referendum Working Group was unanimous in its support for the outcome,” Mr McAvoy told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

PR Counsel managing director Kristy McSweeney says the definition of conservatism has become increasingly narrow, with individuals now having to conform to certain beliefs and ideals, in order to identify as conservative within the Liberal Party. "You have to be increasingly on board with fringe right-wing ideology," she told Sky News host Peta […]

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says he wouldn’t call the focus on the Indigenous Voice so much “sliding doors” as “parallel universes”. “When we’re down here in Canberra, there’s so much focus on this thing called the Voice and we had Labor staffers lined up in the ministerial wing, applauding their boss today,” Mr Canavan told […]

Peter Dutton has blasted Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe for wasting police ­resources after she was pushed by an officer as she tried to disrupt a controversial anti-transgender rally at Parliament House, Canberra.

Australian independent senator Lidia Thorpe was filmed being grabbed by a police officer from behind and falling to the ground while protesting an anti-trans rights rally outside Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday, March 23. Footage by local journalist Sarah Basford Canales captured the incident, and shows Thorpe fall after the struggle with […]

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Greta Thunberg’s honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Theology is the “death of reason”. “Here’s a woman … who has been on school strike for what five years or something and she’s still getting an honorary doctorate,” Mr Bolt said. “The theology degree – what must […]

The Maori voice in New Zealand has lead to the “acceleration” of Maori values in government practice, which could foreshadow how the Voice to Parliament would affect Australians, according to Former advisor to the US State Department Craig Greaves. “The Maori voice has been a prominent part of the New Zealand identity for a number of years […]

The University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Theology has awarded Greta Thunberg an honorary doctorate which is “exposing” and “embarrassing” for the climate activist, says Sky News contributor Daisy Cousens. “You and I have speculated for a long time – global warming is sort of the new woke religion that has replaced any kind of […]