USA – After Brett Kavanaugh hearings, justice turns political avenger

Brett Kavanaugh was the Democrats’ last chance of an even-handed justice. Picture: AFP By Peter Faris 12:00AM September 28, 2018 36 Comment The US Supreme Court generally is regarded by lawyers around the world as the “top court”. Its decisions frequently deal with extremely important issues. Every young lawyer in the US would have dreamt

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Bonner house fire tragedy: Coroner reveals children died before blaze took hold

Glynis Quinlan 27 September 2018 AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedInShare to EmailShare to Print A photo of Anne Muhoro with Ezvin and Furaha taken on Mother’s Day last year. Photo: Supplied. Two children tragically found dead along with their mother after a deliberately lit house fire in Bonner in February

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Making Waves on Campus

From: Bettina Arndt [mailto:bettina@bettinaarndt.com.au] Sent: Sunday, 23 September 2018 6:03 PM Subject: Making Waves     Hi Everyone, Oh Boy, we are really on a roll here.  My little campus tour is causing a bit of a stir.   I spent the whole week, with the help of various clever people, putting together a series

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Riot Squad needed to protect Bettina Arndt at Sydney Uni

From: Bettina Arndt [mailto:bettina@bettinaarndt.com.au] Sent: Monday, 17 September 2018 7:33 PM Subject: Riot squad called in to protect me and my audience at Sydney University.   Hi Everyone,  What a thrilling, exhausting time we have had in the past few weeks. My Fake Rape Crisis Campus Tour went off with a huge bang.   We’ve

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Petition – Sydney Uni must take action against Bettina Arndt’s violent protesters

From: Bettina Arndt [mailto:bettina@bettinaarndt.com.au] Sent: Monday, 24 September 2018 10:22 AM Subject: Please sign petition and circulate   A little post-script to yesterday’s email. I have been receiving a lot of messages suggesting we do a petition to push Sydney University into action.   So I have done this: https://www.change.org/p/bettina-arndt-sydney-university-must-take-action-against-bettina-arndt-s-violent-protesters   Now it is up

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It’s High Time Columbia’s Mattress Girl Was Discredited

by Mona Charen August 4, 2017 4:00 AM Sulkowicz at Columbia in 2014 (image via YouTube) Settling a lawsuit filed by the male student she accused of raping her, the university says he was ‘found not responsible.’If you haven’t heard of the “mattress girl,” it’s not for lack of trying among liberal opinion-shapers. Emma Sulkowicz,

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Boys won’t be boys

V In the Oxford dictionary, the word ‘erasure’ is defined as: The act of removing or destroying something. (Synonyms of erasure include deletion, rubbing out, wiping off or wiping out). We hear about black erasure, bi erasure, trans erasure and female erasure. Yet we don’t hear about the erasure of men. The mere suggestion of

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Unis urged: freedom of speech more important than people’s feelings

  Columnist Bettina Arndt is confronted by protesters at La Trobe University earlier this month. Picture: David Geragh LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITOR @ChrisMerrittc 12:00AM September 18, 2018 311 Comments Former High Court chief justice Robert French has warned universities face the risk of legislative intervention unless they provide a robust defence of free speech on campus.

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No decent campus curtails the free exchange of ideas

No decent campus curtails the free exchange of ideas 12:00AM September 19, 2018 10 Comments Justice French, we concur: universities are the last places where freedom of speech should be suppressed so readily. In an address reported yesterday, former High Court chief justice Robert French hints the attempt to shut down politically inconvenient speech on

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Who is Harassing Whom?

Dr. Richard A. Warshak At some point in nearly every case of a child’s severe estrangement from a parent, the child and the parent with whom she is aligned label the other parent’s attempts to reach out to the child as “harassment.” The child rebuffs phone calls, texts, emails, greeting cards, invitations, even gifts. Not

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