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Families first

On March 17, 2016, the Coalition joined forces with the Greens to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act and abolish Senate…

15 Nov 2020

Yet another senior departure in Danandrewstan raises fresh questions

No one could accuse Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews of not being decisive — and certainly not when it comes to…

14 Nov 2020

Cancel culture panel cancelled by cancel culture

Last Saturday I participated as a panellist at the Disrupted Festival of Ideas. Organised by the State Library of Western Australia, I was on…

13 Nov 2020

That Murdoch media digital dominance in full

The concerted efforts of leftie bedwedders, axe-grinders, opportunists — and, most of all, censors who don’t want the Australian public…

It’s not just about him or Joe

Many – including our PM Scott Morrison with his unsubtle public phone chat the other day with Joe Biden, whom…

13 Nov 2020

Will the Australian way of life be a long-term coronavirus victim?

COVID-19 has consumed the public’s attention for almost six months, but the economic crisis caused by devastating lockdowns has started to shed light…

13 Nov 2020

Young and free – but who’s Gert?

The Premier of New South Wales has suggested that one word of our national anthem should now be changed to…

12 Nov 2020

The strange sexism of Anita Recount

Forget bonk ban. The real sex hang-ups — or more accurately — sexuality hang-ups seem to be from progressive types…

12 Nov 2020

The time is ripe for a Boris comeback

‘The thing about the greased piglet is that he manages to slip through other people’s hands where mere mortals fail.’…

14 Nov 2020

A warning from history for Keir Starmer

It is nearly a year since one of the Labour party’s worst ever election defeats; and just over six months…

14 Nov 2020

Don't silence the anti-vaxxers

Pfizer has come up trumps. Now that a vaccine for Covid-19 is more than just a possibility, we can breathe…

14 Nov 2020

Washington State is a worrisome window into the future

Seattle I have seen the future, and it looks much like Washington State. But let’s get there by steps. The…

14 Nov 2020

May I quota you?

What would you call a glass ceiling that blocks men from career advancement? A lipstick ceiling? Whatever, it exists, even…

14 Nov 2020

The Marquess of Queens, buried not yet

As I write this calls from the Democrats and the press – but I repeat myself – for President Trump…

14 Nov 2020

Peace nixed

A Biden administration is likely to implement a significant shift in US policy concerning Israel and the Middle East broadly.…

14 Nov 2020

Business/Robbery etc.

Treasury plans to fill the RBA’s interest rate vacuum Is it cause for alarm, or an inevitable trend, that the…

14 Nov 2020

Flu d’état

Ross Clark explains in the Daily Mail (3 November) how Boris Johnson’s ‘experts’ have manipulated data to terrify England into…

14 Nov 2020

Zero net sense

Thanks to US president-elect Joe Biden’s declaration that his administration will set a target of net-zero emissions for the US…

14 Nov 2020

Laughs on the way to the guillotine

Who says the ABC can’t do comedy? Their US election coverage was hilarious. The look on the faces of their…

14 Nov 2020

A very wicked outcome in the land of Oz

Last week, Melbourne residents emerged from corona-hiding like the Munchkins after the death of the Wicked Witch of the West…

14 Nov 2020

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The Undoing

It’s a strange prospect for strange times, the young violinist Freya Franzen on the stage of Melbourne’s Concert Hall playing…

14 Nov 2020

Arthur Streeton Land of the Golden Fleece 1926

In February 1922, Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, was married in the first…

14 Nov 2020

Sean Connery

Sean Connery outlived all of them, those great British actors who came to such prominence in the early Sixties: Richard…

7 Nov 2020

Simon Fieldhouse Mozart Statue, Vienna

Simon Fieldhouse is a Sydney- based artist who has developed a very particular area of expression. Typically, he uses watercolour…

7 Nov 2020

Aussie Life & Language

Simon Collins A British newspaper once ran a TV ad extolling the virtues of journalistic objectivity. ‘Point of view’, which…

Where’s the slogan saying ‘Lose Weight. Stop Boozing. Survive the virus!’?

Panic at the country feed store. Panic in the horse and pony aisle. I wonder to myself: could life ever…

14 Nov 2020

I was the only Trump supporter among the olive-pickers

We bums find ourselves sought after at this time of year to lend a hand with the olive harvest. So…

14 Nov 2020

The cultural elite has a new enemy

New York Election night parties are usually dreadful affairs, with the idiot box blaring and hysterical listeners screaming out the…

14 Nov 2020

Things mankind was not supposed to know — the dark side of science

One day someone is going to have to write the definitive study of Wikipedia’s influence on letters. What, after all,…

14 Nov 2020

The autistic mind could hold the key to the future

An old, cynical adage holds that ‘if all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’. I remembered…

14 Nov 2020

Masculinity in crisis: Men and Apparitions, by Lynne Tillman, reviewed

Masculinity, we are often told, is in crisis. The narrator of Men and Apparitions, Professor Ezekiel (Zeke) Stark, both studies…

14 Nov 2020

Humiliating the IRA was a fatal mistake

It was said that Reginald Maudling, as home secretary, once boarded a plane in Belfast and immediately requested a stiff…

14 Nov 2020

Driven to distraction — the unhappy life of Vivien Eliot

Do you think your mother slept with T.S. Eliot? That was the question I needed to ask the 98-year-old in…

14 Nov 2020

Gardening books for Christmas — reviewed by Ursula Buchan

Dan Pearson is one of the finest of all British garden designers, blessed with sensitivity, a wonderful eye, deep plant…

14 Nov 2020

Universities are supposed to encourage debate, not strangle it

Liberal values are under attack on two flanks. Those of us who think extensive freedom of expression, universal human rights…

14 Nov 2020

The courage of a madman: Maurice Wilson’s doomed assault on Everest

Reinhold Messner, the first person to climb all 14 of the planet’s peaks higher than 8,000 metres, is probably the…

14 Nov 2020