EXCLUSIVE: Danandrewstan, when Extinction Rebellion can march on March 22, but diggers can’t on April 25
Earlier this month, to the fury of veterans, Melbourne’s Anzac Day March was cancelled for the second year running, with…
Victimhood feminism: whatever happened to empowering women?
As a teenage boy who saw his mother beaten and assaulted as a result of domestic violence I’m the first…
Dear Prime Minister, Australia is not a racist country
Although I was born overseas I consider myself a very proud citizen of this country. Australia is widely recognised as one of…
Covid-19 jabs: mandatory or voluntary?
The Covid vaccine rollout has boosted the optimism of many who pin hope of a rapid recovery from the pandemic on the medication’s efficacy. But it is raising important questions around whether it should…
You don’t protect people by destroying their livelihoods
You may have seen reports that the UK’s top court has decided that Uber drivers are not independent contractors. Australian unions are excited…
No Mickey Mouse business. Here’s the Celebrity Climate Change Club
Trigger warning: the following article may contain satire. Before he boarded a private jet to make the journey from Sydney to Byron Bay last…
Victory? We’ve been outmanoeuvred by Facebook and Google
The federal parliament has passed the so-called ‘News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code’. Despite the name, and the…
#ScottyFromMarketing – and Ant from Ant’s Used Cars?
For what ever reason, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been colloquially named “Scotty from Marketing”. No doubt it is a…
What the Khashoggi murder report means for US-Saudi relations
Today, after pressure from senior US lawmakers and staring at an impending statutory deadline, the Biden administration authorised the release…
A defeated Armenia descends into turmoil
Ever since its disastrous military defeat at the hands of Azerbaijan last year, Armenia has suffered from a wave of…
Mr Potato Head and the cult of gender neutrality
Another pillar of the patriarchy has fallen. His name is Mr Potato Head – or rather, it was Mr Potato…
America is back — and still bombing Syria
Presidents come, presidents go — but they all end up launching military airstrikes on the Middle East. Last night Joe…
Xivinity
Imagine the outcry in Australia, America or elsewhere in the West if the state mandated the licensing of religions and…
Prisoner diary
After the long flights from London, via Doha, on Qatar Airways we landed in Brisbane on our way to two…
Lies, damn lies and coronavirus
Australians are an adaptable mob, but we have an intolerance of being treated like the proverbial mushroom, kept in the…
WA Liberals go nuts
I’d never heard of Zak Kirkup until recently. He is the teenage-like leader of the Liberals in Western Australia, soon…
Facebook and friends threaten our freedom
Just two weeks after receiving a request from the shadow minister for health and ageing, Mark Butler, to take ‘appropriate…
Women must lead the fight for equality in sports
What does gender equality as a universal value mean in practice? Where’s the boundary between equality of opportunity and outcome?…
Affairs of staff and state
It’s lucky China didn’t invade Taiwan this week as the government focussed its attention on what it considered to be…
Wuhan: best practice rejected
There used to be a statutory office whose very name struck terror into the hearts of those who feared for…
Anne-Marie Duff
Melbourne was just stirring into public cultural life when the hotel quarantine mishap led to that last alarming lockdown that…
Australian Love Stories: Celebrating love in all its guises at the NPG
The National Portrait Gallery seems to be floundering. That may be unfair but the announcement of the next exhibition left…
The Dig
It was gratifying to see such a quiet and impeccably made film as The Dig make it to independent cinemas…
Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo
Second thoughts are sometimes better thoughts. The NSW government had second thoughts about closing down the Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo…
In the land of the blind
Somehow, American culture has got itself into a terrible mess of division and acrimony: elites against mainstream, progressives against conservatives,…
Savage aperçus: Fake Accounts, by Lauren Oyler, reviewed
Lauren Oyler is viral and vicious. A critic with a reputation for pulling no punches, she is known for delivering…
Algeria’s War of Independence still leaves festering wounds, two new novels reveal
In France, even the car horns yelled about Algeria. A five-beat klaxon blast — three short, two long — signalled…
All good friends and jolly good company: life with the Crichel Boys
In the spring of 1945 three men pooled their resources in order to buy Long Crichel House, a former rectory…
Labour of love: producing the perfect loaf
Wheat flour, and the bread made from it, has been a recurring cause of concern for the British for centuries,…
Hellcat on the loose: Samantha Markle rants about Meghan
A while ago, Samantha Markle declared that her forthcoming book would be about ‘the beautiful nuances of our lives’. Was…
Joan Didion’s needle-sharp eye never fails
Most collections of journalism are bad. There are two reasons for this: one is that they are usually incoherent and…
Up close and personal: voices from the Great War, week by week
In the summer of 2014, David Hargreaves was invited by Robert Cottrell, the editor of The Browser, to write a…