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Australian singer/songwriter, Darren Hayes has threatened Cory Bernardi and the Australian Conservatives after Bernardi included his music in a Spotify play list. A Tweet by the Australian Conservatives says, the play list was launched by Bernardi as “an alternative to Triple J’s ‘Hottest 100’ after they abandoned Australia Day.” .@CoryBernardi launches the #AC100, an alternative to @TripleJ “Hottest 100” after they abandoned #AustraliaDay. Click to listen to the @spotify playlist and vote for your favourites: https://t.co/qlknkhHH5j #auspol #ABetterWay pic.twitter.com/GHy6GDe659 — Aust Conservatives (@AuConservatives) January 17, 2018 Hayes responded by saying, “I do not want to be associated with you, your party…

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Five local counsels have decided against marking 26 January as Australia Day following debate about whether the day should be moved to a less controversial date. In response, Mark Latham and Jacintha Price have together launched the Save Australia Day campaign which will be run on radio and television. Latham has argued that 26 January has always been a vital date in Australian history:   Ill-informed Leftists are spreading the furphy that Australia Day on 26 January is a recent invention. In fact, the early settlers celebrated each 26 January anniversary and in 1818 (the 30 year anniversary) Governor Macquarie…

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Oprah Winfrey’s speech at the 75th Golden Globes on Sunday has sparked calls for a possible presidential run in 2020. During the speech, Winfrey lamented: …we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men. For too long, women have not been heard or believe if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. Rev Jesse Jackson Sr took to Twitter to praise Winfrey as “eminently qualified to be President” who can “raise our moral standing in the world.” Celebrities soon jumped on board in favor of the idea, with TMZ…

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John Piper once said, “The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.”[note]The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth, Sermon: January 26, 2003[/note] The following video shows amazing footage of an unborn…

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In 1916 and 1917, during World War I, Australia went through two divisive referenda dealing with the issue of whether men could be conscripted for overseas service. In 2017 we have gone through a divisive plebiscite on the issue of whether only heterosexual couples can legally marry. One of the strange features of the whole business was the numerous expressions of moral outrage without any basis in a thought-out moral system. This is disturbing but hardly surprising. Unaccustomed as one is to agreeing with anything David Marr comes up with, he did recently point out in the Guardian that the…

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