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Supporting women in sport is a winner for Morrison

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and ex-Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott are right to support Katherine Deves, the Liberal…

22 Apr 2022

Frivolous games or serious politics?

How a war changes things… It was only a few short months ago that Boris Johnson’s prime ministership looked distinctly…

21 Apr 2022

Steering clear of the WorkChoices-IR trap

Calls by ‘big end of towners’ for industrial relations reforms amount to little more than kicking election campaign goals for the union…

21 Apr 2022

'Blessed' or a bigot?

Like the Prime Minister, I’m blessed to have healthy children. And if you believe senior Labor politicians, that makes me…

21 Apr 2022

Albanese is riding solo

With around a month left before the federal election, Anthony Albanese finds himself in a similar position that Prime Minister…

21 Apr 2022

Why I stand shoulder to shoulder with Deves

The death threats that Katherine Deves is now receiving are a direct result of the corrupted journalism that is performed in this…

21 Apr 2022

So, you want a federal corruption watchdog?

What constitutes corruption for a watchdog? Merriam-Webster Definition of corruption 1a: dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as…

20 Apr 2022

The fertility paradox – poverty vs prosperity

The world population had risen from 2.5 billion in 1950, to 6 billion in 2000, and now sits at over…

20 Apr 2022

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Olaf Scholz is becoming Putin’s most valuable ally

If you think that Boris Johnson’s parties in Downing Street constitute a serious matter of state, you might want to…

21 Apr 2022

Can the Queen's Jubilee spark a royal recovery?

I don’t know. Three words rarely uttered by commentators seeking a paid berth on a television studio sofa or a…

21 Apr 2022

What people get wrong about fusionism

To suggest that the American conservative philosophy of fusionism was a mistake is often to betray one’s confusion about the…

21 Apr 2022

Macron vs Le Pen debate: le verdict

Who won Wednesday night’s debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen depends on who is doing the scoring. In…

21 Apr 2022

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New Zealand’s cultural upheaval

My wife and I recently spent two weeks on a road trip around New Zealand’s South Island. It’s a spectacularly…

16 Apr 2022

Ardern and Clark’s next pandemic will be horrid

Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern have been very mean to the world’s Covid Cinderella, New Zealand. Just when we thought…

10 Apr 2022

Attacking English to undermine our European heritage

It starts with very familiar, underground movements burrowing away, gaining a little ground at a time until eventually a society…

9 Apr 2022

How New Zealand's zero Covid strategy fell apart

The biggest thing in the political rock world returns to the international stage this spring with a one-off appearance at…

2 Apr 2022

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Sweet cents of Musk

Who amongst us can fail to be at least a little bit excited by the woodsy, earthy scent of musk…

23 Apr 2022

What does China know about MH370?

Australia deserves some credit for its role in the search for missing Malaysian airline MH370. It was a flight connected…

23 Apr 2022

Butler re-heats Rudd’s thought bubble

One of the problems of Labor’s strategy of running with a small target is that there isn’t much to talk…

23 Apr 2022

Luvvies guide to defining a woman

Should someone who cannot define a woman be the nation’s top health bureaucrat? ‘Balls’, said the Queen. ‘If I had…

23 Apr 2022

France’s choice between bad and terrible

So often Western democracies offer awful electoral choices. Boris Johnson for example offers a woeful record on border protection (let’s…

23 Apr 2022

A national scandal

For nine years Coalition governments have tolerated the national broadcaster’s defiant indifference to its charter and editorial policies. For nine…

23 Apr 2022

The leper vote

Like the Grim Reaper, the spectre of Covid’s warped vaccines is stalking the major parties in the Australian federal election.…

23 Apr 2022

Is Albo another Biden?

The 2022 election, closely monitored by criminals, domestic and international, could be one of the most important in Australian history.…

23 Apr 2022

A peculiar backwards mutation

It’s not hard to sympathise with Christopher Allen’s recent column in the Review section of the Australian decrying the juxtaposition…

23 Apr 2022

A remarkable film that gleams with mastery

What a relief it was to see Parallel Mothers the new film by Pedro Almodóvar. There was the tediousness and…

16 Apr 2022

Archangel of Italian film

Like yesterday, there’s the memory of William Weaver, the great translator from the Italian of Umberto Eco’s The Name of…

9 Apr 2022

Mighty and majestic

There is nothing like a ghastly war, an inscrutable election and a great rush of entertainment high and low to…

2 Apr 2022

Aussie life

Of the 101 Australian military personnel who have been awarded the Victoria Cross, our highest honour for bravery, most lie…

23 Apr 2022

Language

Here it is! I have finally found one word that will describe the Liberal party in its present state— ‘agathokakological’.…

23 Apr 2022

Dear Mary: How do I stop my father’s girlfriend boiling a full kettle for one cup of tea?

Q. Financially successful friends have kindly invited my husband and me to stay for a week in France. Our problem…

23 Apr 2022

Why I won’t be following the new equine vaccine regime

When the vet had finished giving my horses their annual flu boosters, she reminded me the vaccination regime had changed.…

23 Apr 2022

The murky history of Germany’s top family businesses

It was a clear cold morning in January 1936 when Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler arrived at the luxurious Regina Palast Hotel…

23 Apr 2022

The case of the ‘Hay Poisoner’ inspired many a cosy murder mystery

The case of the retired major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor hanged in 1922 for killing his wife Katharine…

23 Apr 2022

We must all become Doctor Dolittles and listen to the wisdom of animals

One day the writer and artist James Bridle rented a hatchback, taped a smartphone to the steering wheel and installed…

23 Apr 2022

Accusations of racism have lost all meaning

The War on the West is Douglas Murray’s latest blast against loony left wokery, chiefly in the areas of race…

23 Apr 2022

Michel Houellebecq may be honoured by the French establishment, but he’s no fan of Europe

For many years, Michel Houellebecq was patronised by the French literary establishment as an upstart, what with his background in…

23 Apr 2022

Memory test: The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan, reviewed

On page 231 of The Candy House, a sequel – no, a ‘sibling’ says Jennifer Egan – to the Pulitzer…

23 Apr 2022

A tale of forbidden love: Trespasses, by Louise Kennedy, reviewed

Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-winning recent film Belfast chronicles the travails of a Protestant family amid sectarian conflict in 1969. Louise Kennedy’s…

23 Apr 2022

Nymphomaniac, fearless campaigner, alcoholic – Nancy Cunard was all this and more

The title of Anne de Courcy’s riveting new book might give the impression that Nancy Cunard had no more than…

23 Apr 2022