Troubled land
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.– Rudyard Kipling, ‘Letters from the East’,…
Falling out of love with Jordan Peterson
I was not the only free speech worrier to fall for Jordan Peterson, the Canadian academic who first came to…
Australian diary
Geneva seems oblivious to the end-of-winter freeze that has paralysed other parts of Europe. The trains and trams continue to…
The race for the UN’s top job
We should care about who is the next Secretary-General - and it shouldn’t be Kevin Rudd
Migration diary
Political cowardice and people on the move
When it comes to free speech, we’re all hypocrites
From anti-terror laws to Section 18C, both sides of politics have a bet each way
Surrogacy Notes
Even the most ardent supporters of surrogacy admit that the present situation in Australia is a mess. Commercial surrogacy is…
