How localism and community spirit can see us through the corona crisis
A wartime crisis requires wartime speeches: Scott Morrison and the battle for hearts and minds
The government’s battle against coronavirus is also a battle for the hearts and minds of Australians. If the Prime Minister…
Mental health in the corona crisis: we’re all in this together
While many are talking about the physical health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, few have been highlighting the…
Thank you, Earth Hour fans
A big thank you to all the people who are about to turn their lights off for Earth Hour. So…
You wouldn’t bloody believe it, but guess who’s asking for money – again
What do Fonzie and Adam Bandt have in common? They both jumped the shark. We were laughing earlier this afternoon…
The getting real we had to have
Something had to happen, it couldn’t go on forever. Coronavirus was unplanned but it will turn our world upside down.…
What doesn’t Adam Bandt get about social distancing?
Adam Bandt wants the Morrison government to emulate the Tories and pay workers who have lost their jobs because of…
Twit of the Day
It’s our third outing, so by now you should know the game. But as we missed yesterdays, here’s an update.…
Corona care: stay up to date. The experts aren’t infallible – let alone the media
There are a lot of basic data errors being made in the media as we try to get our head…
Why was early coronavirus coverage so lazy? The media’s insatiable thirst for political correctness
When the media views its entire mission through a lens of meting out social justice while presenting itself as the…
Why the coronavirus crisis could peak sooner than expected
The government is adjusting to the reality of dealing with the coronavirus crisis, while three of its most important figures…
Putin's plan to exploit coronavirus
Vladimir Putin knows a thing or two about a crisis, having caused a number of them over recent years. And…
Foreign language TV is without the political correctness spoiling English drama
Every cloud has a silver lining. Never again are you likely to have a better opportunity to catch up with…
Send Xi the reparations bill
What do the pandemic outbreaks of avian flu in the 1990s, Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003 and now coronavirus…
How the ABC hoaxes taxpayers
ABC-TV 7pm news provides a nightly drip-drip of Democrat propaganda in its US coverage. The ABC’s US correspondents cut, clip…
Getafix’s Covid potion
Man Dies After Taking Chemical in Coronavirus Treatment Touted by Trump, blared the headline in Time magazine, as if it…
Battlefields are also minefields of uncertainty
Given the long-running debate on battlefield behaviour in our combat troops, it is worthwhile pointing out there is considerable opportunity…
China has stripped us bare
No one should have been surprised by the the Wuhan virus, according to the respected research group, EcoHealth Alliance. As…
The long march to kindy
To understand the success of the cultural-left’s long march through the institutions one needs to go no further that how…
Marble Bar loses on a count back
Last year, the cricket world went into a state of shock when the international 50-over World Cup was decided by…
Xi who must be obeyed
President Xi Jinping is waging a war on a virus more deadly to the Chinese Communist party than SARS-CoV-2 —…
Christos Tsiolkas
This was not the ideal beach book for the Christmas holidays but now we are in different times, it has…
Mozart’s Clarinet
A couple of friends have nominated it as music they would like played at their funerals. I’m not into programming…
David Hallberg
The artistic leadership of a major performing company is, by definition, important. The Australian Ballet has a forthcoming vacancy of…
David Williamson
‘That sinkhole of ambition and superficiality we call Sydney.’ That’s a direct quotation from the Melbourne Theatre Company’s promotion of…
Greg Jenner’s survey of celebrities through the ages has a distinctly Horrible Histories feel
Good writing about celebrity is scant. It has few poets, because it takes depth to go truly shallow (I’d nominate…
King Solomon’s lost city will remain lost forever
Armageddon began as Har Megiddo, the Hill of Megiddo in northern Israel. The theological aspect is Christian. For Jews, ancient…
Male violence pulses through Evie Wyld’s The Bass Rock
‘It’s a woman’s thing, creation,’ says Sarah,a girl accused of witchcraft in 18th-century Scotland, in one of the three storylines…
Nature fights back with tooth and claw as we persist in destroying it
Where to turn in anxious and febrile times? One answer is to nature, or the ‘non-human living world’, which, despite…
From Liverpool’s Cavern to the world stage: how the Beatles became a global phenomenon
When the Beatles’ first authorised biographer, Hunter Davies, clinched the deal in 1967, his publisher remarked that ‘we know everything…
A love letter to San Francisco’s mean streets
Recollections of My Non-Existence is the Rebecca Solnit book I have been waiting for. I was born four years after…
Even in the Swinging Sixties, Ray Davies was feeling nostalgic
At first glance, nostalgia does not seem like a subject much suited to exploration via the medium of the pop…
What makes Thomas Piketty so sure he can save the world?
The French economist, statistician and polymath Thomas Piketty sprang to fame in 2013 with a daunting tome, Capital in the…