Increasingly, anecdotal reports and research are linking gender dysphoria with Asperger’s syndrome. The Australian recently featured a leading expert who wants an inquiry into the disproportionate number of teenagers with autism in gender clinics. Professor Tony Attwood, a psychologist and author of a number of books on autism, is not opposed to gender change as such. But […]
Mark Tarrant grew up in Hong Kong and practices as a lawyer in Sydney. He also represents pro bono (i.e., for free) Drew Pavlou, a student at the University of Queensland who has been expelled for his public criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, in his case against China’s Consul-General in Brisbane. He was interviewed by Massimo Introvigne […]
62 nations have come together to co-sponsor a motion calling for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus, in a move that is expected to anger China. Australia secured strong global backing for an independent inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic at the World Health Assembly, where a new draft resolution was backed by 62 nations including […]
The Chinese Communist Party [CCP] is continuing to put economic pressure on the Australian Government as part of an escalating campaign seemingly designed to stop the Australian Government from continuing to push for an investigation into the crucial early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak. This week has already seen the CCP threaten tariffs of 80% on Australian […]
After more than 400 days in prison Pell said he considered his time behind bars as a “a long retreat”, but that he was now looking forward to celebrating a private Mass for the first time in over a year.
Today’s verdict however is a vindication of Pell, one that any person who cherishes the right to a fair trial should welcome.
Australian Cardinal George Pell has been released after his 2018 conviction was quashed in a 7-0 decision by the High Court of Australia. The Cardinal had spent roughly 400 days in prison after being convicted in 2018 of the sexual assault of two 13 year old boys in the mid 1990s. Cardinal Pell, who was […]
60 Minutes Australia is reporting that Dr Ai Fen, head of the emergency department at Wuhan Central Hospital, has disappeared. Update: A video is currently circulating on Weibo claiming to be a recording of Dr Ai speaking at a online event after her reported disappearance. The video is short, and has no sound, but it […]
The T.C. Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland was established by a £20,000 donation from Thomas Charles Beirne, a devout Catholic businessman and Papal Knight who was warden of the University from 1928 to 1941. The vast tract of beautiful riverside land on which the university sits in St Lucia was donated by pioneering doctor […]
In Australia, as elsewhere in the developed world, doctors and parents are perplexed about an epidemic of young people, mostly teenage girls, who want to change gender. Back in August the Federal Health Minister, Greg Hunt, asked the The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) for advice on how to treat gender dysphoria in children […]
The annual World Economic Forum in Davos brought together representatives from government and business to deliberate how to solve the worsening climate and ecological crisis. The meeting came just as devastating bush fires were abating in Australia. These fires are thought to have killed up to one billion animals and generated a new wave of climate refugees. Yet, as with the COP25 climate talks […]
Parents had been informed that students would use self-contained gender-neutral cubicles and shared basins, with the only male and female toilets being located in the gym’s changing room, but a significant backlash ensued.