Common Sense Australia
Helping you cut through the crap. Australian news and life commentary for people who already sense most of what they’re being told does not add up.
You already know. Deep down, most Australians can tell when an official line is rubbish. They just haven’t been given the words to say it without sounding like the bad guy. That is the trick — dress the crap up as kindness, and anyone who points at it gets called cruel. Sorry if that sounds rude. But that’s what it is. We give you the words. Read more about what we do →
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Eight threads. Each one takes a slice of modern Australian life and sorts what is real from what is crap. Pick the one you care about most — or start with the first post in each and read down.
Money & Banks
A bank lends you money it does not have, and charges you interest on it for thirty years. That is the racket. Here is how modern money actually works, and what honest money looks like.
Freedom & Power
The law was supposed to stop bad men hurting you. Nothing more. When it starts telling you what to say, what to bake, what to inject — it has stopped being law.
Life & Death
Every topic here is a form of death. Something natural was replaced with something engineered, and somebody paid for the replacement. Abortion, IVF, surrogacy, assisted dying, organ donation, gender crap.
Family & Home
Break the home and everything else rots from the inside. Marriage, fatherhood, motherhood, the battle for your kids’ attention, and the traditions worth keeping.
Truth & Lies
A man who cannot tell a lie from the truth is already owned. The information war, how to spot propaganda mid-sentence, and how to read without being owned.
Faith & Meaning
Without a soul anchor, a life is just drift. Non-sectarian plain-English talk about purpose, the big questions, and the old rules that never stopped working.
Country & Culture
A country is more than an economy. A culture is what we owe the dead and the unborn. Australia, the West, immigration in moderation, and the managerial class hollowing all of it out.
Strength & Character
Virtue is a daily practice. Comfort and victimhood are the twin lies hollowing modern men and women out. The four old virtues, and what a life built on them actually looks like.
Recent posts
- When Doctors Declare You Dead But Your Body DisagreesIf you’re a registered organ donor in Australia, read this before you renew your licence. You might change your mind. You might not. Either way, you should know what you’re signing up for.
- Banks Create Money From Nothing Then Charge You InterestA bank writes you a mortgage for $600,000. Here’s the bit they don’t want you thinking about. They didn’t have the money. They typed it.
- When Protection Became CompulsionGay bashing was wrong. Straight bashing is also wrong. By the 1990s Australia had more or less arrived at a simple deal: live and let live. It didn’t last. Here’s the Bastiat line that still runs the whole argument.
- When Your Doctor Suggests You Should DieVictoria just changed its assisted dying law. Most people missed it. Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas pushed through amendments that let doctors bring up killing you. Not wait for you to ask. Bring it up.
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