Where’s the diversity at the ABC when it’s only white people talking left wing dross?
Former Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane yesterday slammed the ABC for using too many white-skinned Leftists to present its news…
Daniel Andrews queer theory tyranny
While Christian Porter has delayed the introduction of the Religious Freedom Bill until 2021 due to COVID-19, Daniel Andrews is…
The great public policy Razzie awards
For the third year running, independent research undertaken by two philosophically opposed Right and Left think tanks — the Institute of…
Prayer illegal? In Australia?
What tumultuous times they are in which we live? Not so long ago In Australia it was a criminal offence…
Our universities: foundering in the shallows of farce and incoherence
As noted by the British Conservative politician Michael Gove in Celsius 7/7, whereas classical Marxism defines the revolutionary struggle in terms of the workers…
Joe Biden, America’s unenthusiastic allies – and the real ones
Sam Vinograd, an Obama administration national security alumnus – and now, needless to say, a CNN nat sec analyst –…
Daniel Andrews arrogantly bungled coronavirus – and is doing the same to economic recovery
Yesterday’s Victorian budget was on-form for the Andrews’ government: it mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and now it is mishandling the economic recovery from the…
It’s an evil copout claiming domestic violence in Aboriginal communities comes from colonisation
When a black man hits a black woman it’s a white man’s fault, according to Diversity Council Australia. The Council,…
Reasons why the 2020 presidential election is deeply puzzling
To say out-loud that you find the results of the 2020 presidential election odd is to invite derision. You must…
Why this Iranian assassination is all about Trump
The news that Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen ‘father of the bomb’ Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, met his end in a hail of…
The gamble Boris feels he must take
Both Boris Johnson and Robert Jenrick have used their media appearances today to try and calm Tory MPs after yesterday’s…
Italy is about to hijack the eurozone
There is still some debate about who came up with the adage that ‘if you owe the bank $100 that…
Welcome to Boola Bardip
Are you a visionary leader capable of delivering a $180 million arts and culture precinct in Alice Springs? If so,…
So how’s ScoMo faring?
I have largely resisted the temptation to rail against the ongoing insanity of Australia’s response to the Wuhan virus (aka…
Keeping us in our place
‘Desperate times require desperate measures’ has presumably been the justification for all the lockdowns from which we have been slowly…
We need genuinely ‘free and fair’ elections
Donald Trump will surely accept defeat and concede victory to Joe Biden with the same grace and generosity of spirit…
Bordering on the insane
Now that the Constitution has been breached with impunity by several premiers with decisions that play well to their panic-stricken…
Soviet states of Australia
Three years ago, the NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, declared ‘The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage…
Business/Robbery etc.
Menzies’ home ownership or Keating’s super? Home ownership or superannuation? For an increasing proportion of Australians, it’s one or the…
China cries wolf diplomacy
Like KoKo in The Mikado, or Kat Stratford in the rom-com based on The Taming of the Shrew, Beijing has…
The Queen’s Gambit
As the Covid virus recedes even from Victoria – and the South Australian scare proves less serious than it looked…
Eryn Jean Norvill
Normality is returning, bit by bit, to public entertainment.Apparently fifty thousand people can go to a football match, yelling themselves…
Here come the judge
1968 was a year of recurring turbulence for the United States, all of it witnessed in American living rooms, courtesy…
Billy Wilder
Slowly the world of the arts starts to take a timid step forward in plague-torn Australia. Just as alarming new…
Blame game
Ah, millennials. Golden children of the Digital Age or dysfunctional, over-educated slackers? Bit of both, says Anne Helen Petersen, although…
Is there anything left worth joking about?
Here are a couple of books that seek to tackle the difficult issue of comedy on the front line. One…
Barack Obama was decidedly a man of action as well as words
Well, it’s quite the title, isn’t it? It tends to invite comparisons. The first one that occurred to me, though,…
No writer was better suited to chronicle the Depression than John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck didn’t believe in God — but he didn’t believe much in humanity either. When push came to shove,…
When sedition was rife in 18th-century London
Researching the seditious literature of earlier periods is seldom suspenseful, pulse-quickening work. For every thrill of archival discovery, there are…
An unquiet life: There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, by Kikuko Tsumura, reviewed
Kikuko Tsumura is a multi-prizewinning Japanese author whose mischievously deceptive new novel takes us into what purports to be the…
Alasdair Gray gives us a vivid new Paradiso
As every Italian schoolchild knows, The Divine Comedy opens in a supernatural dark wood just before sunrise on Good Friday…
Animal magic: children’s books for Christmas
J.K. Rowling has written a book for children — and you know what? It’s a charmer. The Ickabod(Hachette, £20) was…