In praise of Big Coal
Through its coal-digging antics, Oz has made itself the midwife of a new era of progress around the world
A culture war on whaling
Australia’s successful international block on Japan’s business represents the nanny state gone global
Dare to be unaware
Once, campaigners and charities tried to fight social evils. Now they just tell us about them
Absent friends
Israelis’ theories on why it’s fashionable for the West to despise them
Trollhunters are a menace to the internet
Don’t blame Twitter for the tragic death of Charlotte Dawson
The first cut
The thinking of those who seek to ban circumcision is dreary, backwards – and often anti-Semitic
Self-pity doesn’t pay
The ‘intern justice’ movement is preposterous – and damaging
The making of a myth
When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…
The making of a myth
When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…
