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).
If the mainstream media is to be believed, DOGE represents an existential threat to the American republic. Ask the average American, on the other hand, and you'll discover high levels of enthusiasm for DOGE and its projected US$500 billion in federal savings.
Date posted: 2025-04-12
The US Vice President blew up the internet on Friday when he took to the stage at the illustrious Munich Security Conference and scolded hundreds of Europe's self-assured defence experts. What did Vance say to so upset the ruling class - and so delight the everyday punter? Europe is hardly worth defending, Vance declared, if it continues on its present slide into the autocratic abyss.
Date posted: 2025-03-08
As such, the new Administration announced it that "will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures."
Date posted: 2025-02-21
Another day, another human trafficking scandal at Planned Parenthood.
Date posted: 2025-01-04
As Clay Travis has mused at Outkick, "the birth of the woke sports era" began in 2016 with San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick refusing to stand for the national anthem. But it officially came to an end "when first the UFC fighter Jon Jones and later white and black players on the Detroit Lions, the Tennessee Titans and the Las Vegas Raiders all celebrated on the football field with their own versions of the Donald Trump YMCA dance."
Date posted: 2024-12-16
"Today is a contest between the people who think the news is real and those who know it is not." This cheeky quip came from the pen of American author and cartoonist Scott Adams before any polling stations had closed on Tuesday. How right he turned out to be.
Date posted: 2024-11-08
Shellenberger argues that the techniques originally developed by US intelligence to foment regime change abroad have since been adapted for domestic use to suppress dissent within America, specifically on topics such as Covid-19 and the 2020 US election. Those tactics include media manipulation, civil unrest, engineered social movements (ie, cancel culture), and the framing of dissent as extremism and a threat to democrac
Date posted: 2024-10-22
Fading quickly from the headlines, last week's presidential debate was noteworthy only for its three-on-one format, in which former president Donald Trump found himself debating not just rival Kamala Harris but also two ABC News moderators.
Date posted: 2024-10-04
When Trump picked JD Vance as his running mate, the legacy press held Vance's feet to the fire, with hard-hitting, wall-to-wall coverage that interrogated the Ohio senator's life story, his policy positions, his political alliances, and the ins and outs of his relationship to the 45th president. The fourth estate did its job, in other words - helping Americans understand Trump's heir apparent, and ensuring he was thoroughly vetted for the job. If only the same could be said of their treatment of Kamala Harris' VP pick, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Date posted: 2024-09-15
As the Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) scandal continues to unfold, the panic on display from the powers that be is yet more evidence that we are living in a post-trans the kidsworld. Biden's Department of Justice hauled former TCH surgeon Dr Eithan Haim before the courts earlier this month. His crime? Exposing the hospital's secret continuation of child "gender medicine" despite its own public denials -- and despite a statewide ban on the practice.
Date posted: 2024-08-17
Over many decades, United States law enforcement agencies have profiled a wide range of violent actors by motive - with anti-fascism, Islamism, environmentalism, racial supremacy and hardline nationalism among the more common ideologies to inspire acts of violence.
Date posted: 2024-07-30
It is a understatement to observe that the Biden administration's moral compass is broken beyond repair.
Date posted: 2024-07-03
Ancient pagan sites have become the latest vandalism target for modern pagan cults.
Date posted: 2024-06-22
There is nothing about being an NFL player, however, that prevents players from having other passions in life. And Butker has made it quite clear over the years that his faith and his family rank as higher priorities for him than football. It was the themes of faith and family that landed Butker in hot water for the commencement address he gave at Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts college an hour out of Kansas City.
Date posted: 2024-06-02
Every month, we are reducing the perceived risk of abolishing DEI departments. By the end of the year, most red states will have abolished DEI in their public universities. Then we will move on to the next campaign.
Date posted: 2024-05-28
Boy Scouts of America's gender-neutral rebrand is just the latest move in a decade of woke policy posturing by the organisation. Here's a thought. Maybe the last decade's worth of hyper-inclusion explains why Boy Scouts of America's membership is at historic lows. Though never a scout, I was a boy once. I remember the difference between playing in mixed company and adventuring just with other boys. Both have their place, but they are qualitatively different. As an all-male organisation, BSA had an edge on most competition - an edge they have since abandoned in their giddy pursuit of woke brownie points.
Date posted: 2024-05-19
Planned Parenthood made use of $699 million in United States taxpayer funds to perform over 390,000 abortions last year, according to the organisation's recent annual report. The number represents a 5 percent increase from the previous year.
Date posted: 2024-05-07
Two-thirds of children experiencing gender confusion in early adolescence grow out of those feelings by their mid-20s, according to a landmark, multi-decade study published in February.
Date posted: 2024-04-19
Earlier in March, NHS England made the bombshell announcement that puberty blockers - controversial drugs that are also used to chemically castrate criminals - will mercifully no longer be prescribed to children at gender identity clinics across the country.
Date posted: 2024-04-01
For over a decade she has been involved in anti-sex trafficking advocacy. But it was the "Traffickinghub" campaign she launched in February 2020 that has really made a mark on the world.
Date posted: 2024-03-09
When Western nations legalised same-sex marriage in the mid-2010s, few people were expecting a deluge of drag queens to follow - but somehow, that is what we got. Now drag queens are everywhere: in city libraries, at K-12 schools, in parades, and just in case you can't escape them elsewhere, on airlines. If you criticise this bizarre modern ritual, watch out - you might be fired, as happened to one unsuspecting UK university lecturer.
Date posted: 2024-02-17
The data points are all around us - whether seen in a growing awareness of the futility of transgender surgery, the hypocrisy of elite climate panic peddlers, falling support for same-sex relationships, or the dawning realisation that the cult's high priests would sooner support Hamas terrorists than the babies they murder.
Date posted: 2024-02-15
A resurfaced video of former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins has been making the rounds on social media this week, providing a stark reminder that 'the experts' are still due their reckoning for the reckless Covid-era policies they long foisted on the rest of us.
Date posted: 2024-01-24
Tensions have been running hot in Ireland after a 49-year-old Algerian-Irish man stabbed five people, three of them children, sending a woman and a young child to hospital in a serious condition.
Date posted: 2023-12-16
After just two medical appointments, Luka Hein underwent a double mastectomy at age 16.
Date posted: 2023-10-22
The barely-whispered fine print in each of these announcements - and in most corporate press reporting on the subject - was that no graves had been physically located or unearthed at all. Rather, radar had detected anomalies and disturbances in the soil, which were assumed to be the graves of children. Such an assumption was not entirely unfounded: research conducted in 2015 suggested historically high rates of child deaths at residential schools due to disease.
Date posted: 2023-10-03
That death throes of a dying civilisation otherwise known as 'Drag Queen Story Hour' have suffered a landmark legal defeat in Australia.
Date posted: 2023-09-02
Like any good debate, both sides of the issue had a chance to present their views. The result was a reminder of why such debates are rarely allowed in public anymore - namely, because the side of sanity effortlessly presented the best case.
Date posted: 2023-08-12
There are questions that puzzle even the most astute philosophers. If the LGBT movement is just about what consenting adults do behind closed doors, why do we keep seeing footage of adults depicting sex acts at family parades?
Date posted: 2023-07-13
Meet GARM, the World Economic Forum's Swiss army knife for woke-ifying Planet Earth.
Date posted: 2023-06-08
Since London has spoken out about his story on social media and in interviews, he said he's received "thousands and thousands of messages from Christians and Catholics" praying for him and sending encouragement. He urged Catholics to reach out to those with gender dysphoria, especially children, and invite them to church. He has even written a book, to be released in August, about the harm of gender ideology.
Date posted: 2023-06-03
"Where are the limits to self-definition?
Date posted: 2023-05-23
Does Disney really believe that families enjoy LGBTQ+-affirmative lecturing in films?
Date posted: 2023-05-02
Are we supposed to junk great works of art because they offend contemporary sensibilities?
Date posted: 2023-04-22
Woke' is hotly contested by progressives and conservatives.
Date posted: 2023-04-05
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