Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adults pastor. Since 2018, Kurt has been the Research and Features Editor at the Canberra Declaration. He is also a freelance writer, and a regular contributor at the Spectator Australia, MercatorNet, Caldron Pool and The Good Sauce. Kurt is fluent in several South-East Asian languages, has degrees in Design, Education and Divinity, and is an avid traveller and surfer. Having grown up in the Adelaide Hills, he now resides in Sydney's northern beaches with his wife Angie. Together, they are preparing to volunteer long-term in South-East Asia. Kurt is the author of Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? (2020). He is also the co-editor and a contributing author of The Blessing of Almighty God (2020).
Some men are discovering new ways to advance women's rights.
Date posted: 2023-03-25
For nearly three years, journalists in the world media have behaved like activists.
Date posted: 2023-03-08
How well does she know her American history?
Date posted: 2023-02-15
Activists are defacing famous works of art to protest inaction on climate change.
Date posted: 2023-02-07
Adding to what Orwell wrote in 1984: war is peace; freedom is slavery; Ignorance is strength -- 'man is woman'.
Date posted: 2023-01-28
Cancel culture is so out of control that its worst purveyors are now cancelling themselves.
Date posted: 2022-10-28
Believing that homosexual acts are sinful and that abortion is murder will get you sacked in today's Australia.
Date posted: 2022-10-10
Insane: choosing to hire expensive "inclusivity monitors" instead of funding life-saving personnel.
Date posted: 2022-09-19
Is binary sexuality really a way of subjugating women?
Date posted: 2022-09-13
On a Zoom call in November 2020, Cathy Boardman showed her cultural studies class two pictures: one of a white performer appearing in "blackface"; the other of a drag queen, with a caption asking, "What about 'womanface'?"
Date posted: 2022-09-04
Shouldn't Sydneysiders have a conversation about the wisdom of holding an international gay pride event in the middle of a monkeypox epidemic?
Date posted: 2022-08-19
The Biden administration labelled parents as 'domestic terrorists'. Why did it ignore terrorist threats to SCOTUS judges?
Date posted: 2022-07-05
No balloon can stay aloft for ever. The other day I suggested to a friend that we may be close to reaching "peak woke". He sagely responded that the notion of peak woke is like housing prices in Sydney: ever promising to stop climbing but never relenting.
Date posted: 2022-06-22
A massacre of Nigerian Catholics last Sunday has gone without comment from BLM. Women and children were among the slain at St Francis Catholic Church in the town of Owo. Many more were injured during the shooting.
Date posted: 2022-06-20
The comedian dares a takedown of transgenderism. British comedian Ricky Gervais won global infamy for his merciless opening speech at the 2020 Golden Globes. The dry eight-minute routine decried woke hypocrisy, confronted Hollywood's pedophilia problem, and ridiculed the notion of elites passing each other awards. It is a skit that hasn't aged a day.
Date posted: 2022-06-19
If every gun in America were confiscated tomorrow, the endemic mass killing of abortion would, if many of the Uvalde mourners had their way, remain.
Date posted: 2022-06-06
The Queensland government wants men to stop abusing their wives. Fair enough. but how about abuse of its own citizens?
Date posted: 2022-05-21
Locker rooms are 'definitely awkward'. One teammate who spoke to the Daily Mail said that she and other female athletes feel uncomfortable sharing a locker room with Thomas. "It's definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women," the teammate said.
Date posted: 2022-04-11
Woke warriors are fighting the good fight in Ukraine.
Date posted: 2022-04-11
The post-Cold War world has been easy on us. What comes next?
Date posted: 2022-03-21
Two organisers of Canada's peaceful Freedom Convoy, Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, were arrested today, after the Trudeau government earlier this week invoked the Emergencies Act, formerly the War Measures Act.
Date posted: 2022-02-24
Ever looked at a bag of M&Ms and thought, 'I feel excluded'? Are you unable to enjoy that delicious candy-covered chocolate because you don't see yourself represented in its mascots?
Date posted: 2022-02-17
The New York Times has dropped the ball again. Why is it so difficult for American journalists to simply tell the truth?
Date posted: 2021-12-27
Wokeism has infected one of the best-loved religious institutions.
Date posted: 2021-12-11
President Biden said very little about the attack and has planned no visit to the families of the victims.
Date posted: 2021-12-11
Why are parents being persecuted for protecting their children against trans indoctrination?
Date posted: 2021-11-03
Earlier this month, DC Comics revealed that the Man of Steel is in fact bisexual.
Date posted: 2021-11-03
From social media censorship to mandatory medical treatments, it seems that Westerners have lost sight of the unique freedoms that once made our nations the envy of the world.
Date posted: 2021-09-19
Pollsters sat under a cloud of emotionally-charged cognitive bias in the lead-up to last November's election. According to a recent Hill-HarrisX poll, one third of American voters identify as "woke". Depending on your definition of "woke", that might be very good or very bad news.
Date posted: 2021-08-03
What happens when critical race theory invades your doctor's office?
Date posted: 2021-06-22
Those rainbows are nothing more than virtue-signalling to their dangerously censorious customers.
Date posted: 2021-06-22
Iconic podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan last week expressed concerns to his millions of listeners about straight white men being silenced. Irony much?
Date posted: 2021-06-22
Americans have made amazing progress in race relations. Their challenge is to stay the course
Date posted: 2021-06-22
Today, major corporations scramble over each other to sell us their woke credentials, in an apparent fading interest in the products they were originally known for. Now, it seems, these companies are more eager to advertise their opinions on voter laws, pronouns, green new deals and whatever else woke activists decide matters most this month.
Date posted: 2021-06-04
As is increasingly typical of debates in the postmodern era, the question of transgender “rights” has morphed into an all-out propaganda war. It is a battle that will be won or lost in the realm of language—the definitions of words, and the ability of voices in the media to clarify or cloud the truth through journalistic framing devices.
Date posted: 2021-05-20
Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll be familiar with the new craze sweeping the West as the 2020s unfold, known as "cancel culture". The more this phenomenon grows, the more the label risks being misapplied. Cancel culture isn't just anything, however: it follows a very recognisable pattern.
Date posted: 2021-04-25
An unpleasant incident at an elite US women's college shows the danger of trusting feelings over facts.
Date posted: 2021-03-09
Over 80 percent of Americans don't believe that they should pay for abortions in developing countries.
Date posted: 2021-02-18
We've moved from 'conservatives should build their own platforms' to 'conservatives don't deserve their own platforms'.
Date posted: 2021-02-05
In preparation for the upcoming 117th Congress, House Democrats from the Rules Committee have drafted a rules package that would eliminate all references to gender in the official rules of the nation's Lower House. Lockdowns are destroying our economy. Thousands of businesses have permanently closed. Millions of Americans are out of work. Yet @SpeakerPelosi and the Democrats are more worried about eliminating words like 'father' and 'mother'," tweeted Texas Congressman Lance Gooden.
Date posted: 2021-01-15
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, no story has so captured our attention as this year's coronavirus pandemic. Even as the year draws to a close, our newsfeeds and nightly bulletins continue to update us on the spread of the virus and the many efforts afoot to mitigate it.
Date posted: 2020-11-27
Science has a very trusted reputation - so much so that in recent years, "trust the science" and "the science is settled" have become fashionable phrases in policy making and public debate.
Date posted: 2020-11-02
Large corporations are exerting more and more political pressure and control over their employees' basic human freedoms in attempts at virtue-signalling. Yet, their own business interests may display blatant hypocrisy.
Date posted: 2020-09-26
Despite what some commentators are saying, 'proletarian shopping' can hurt some people.
Date posted: 2020-09-26
Lacking familial love and cohesion, today's young adults turn to groups based on race, sexuality or some other minority identity for belonging.
Date posted: 2020-09-16
Activists are wasting their time tearing down old statues. Abuse is happening here and now.
Date posted: 2020-07-06
Long-ago and lurid allegations. Joe Biden's are ignored; Brett Kavanaugh's spark a media frenzy. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault by a former staffer named Tara Reade. Such a serious allegation against a presidential candidate would normally be a loud, leading, global story. Instead....
Date posted: 2020-05-24
We must not get complacent about restrictions imposed during the crisis.
Date posted: 2020-05-17
A couple years back during that postal plebiscite, 62 percent of Australians voted to legalise same-sex marriage. Today Public life is coarser and more sexualised.
Date posted: 2020-03-04
In an effort to normalise pornography, there are people who point out that porn has been around since ancient times. That might be true, but porn today is like nothing the world has ever seen.
Date posted: 2019-11-03