There was a lot of news yesterday about a new house finance product being offered by Adelaide Bank, touted in some media outlets as the ‘interest free mortgage’ and the like. The Herald Sun summarises it as follows: The loan product allows home owners to borrow as little as 75 per cent of the value... Read More

Is it that time of year already? Fred Nile, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party, has called for an immediate halt to Muslim immigration. Last year (or was it the year before?), he was calling for the niqab to be banned on the apparent grounds that bombs might be hidden inside it. Why terrorists... Read More

On Monday, Andrew Norton made the observation that parents who choose private education for their children are treated less favourably by government than those who choose public schools. On the federal government’s school funding policy, students at private schools get subsidies at somewhere between 13.7% and 70% of the government school rate, depending on the... Read More

The Sun-Herald are reporting today that two Muslim women will be running for the seat of Auburn in Sydney’s South West. A FORMER high school principal and a local councillor will become the first Muslim women to be aligned with mainstream political parties when they contest the March 24 state election. Muslim converts Silma Ihram,... Read More