Forget the Australia Day stunts, let’s just celebrate
Be warned. In recent years it has become the custom to spoil what would otherwise be an enjoyable Australia Day…
Inauguration notes
The Worst President When it was said that Malcolm Turnbull is the worst Australian Liberal Prime Minister since Sir William…
Obama notes
Stabbing an ally in the back After so injudiciously ratifying the Paris climate agreement on the very day Donald Trump…
Aux bien pensants
Long before Trump & Brexit… President Trump’s landslide is just the beginning. Better than the sight of battalions of experts…
Aux bien pensants
Long before Trump & Brexit… President Trump’s landslide is just the beginning. Better than the sight of battalions of experts…
Malcolm Turnbull contradicts himself over a republic
Malcolm Turnbull can advance only one extremely weak reason to justify the expense, division and enormous cost of both a…
Brexit’s lessons for Australia
Soon after the decision by the British to quit the European Union, I found myself at a dinner of about…
The High Court should affirm the people, not the government, are truly sovereign
Why has there been such a long-term decline in maths and science learning in our schools, and in the qualifications…
Parliament should stay sitting until its work is done
Where is Professor Triggs when you want her? How could the Turnbull government be so mean and petty and also,…
Drain Burley Griffin
The reason so many know-alls have had to scrape the lashings of egg from their faces is that once again,…
Drain Burley Griffin
The reason so many know-alls have had to scrape the lashings of egg from their faces is that once again,…
My husband and I … are paying for the renos, thank you
You would have thought that with the egg on their faces over Brexit and the American election, the media would be…
So much for elite opinion
On the morning of the American presidential election, The Australian, with all the massive North American and indeed worldwide resources…
November 8: decision time
Just as with Australian elections, American elections are not as untainted as they should be with the latest bombshell being…
Lord Zimmers and the High Tories*
‘Even if we allowed you to vote − which is never going to happen − you serfs would only be…
Electoral fraud: why no action?
When Donald Trump says the election is rigged he is probably referring to two issues. The first is that the…
Aux bien pensants
Mr Shorten says he’s opposed to the very same gay marriage plebiscite he’d previously demanded. One reason is cost. So…
Why it (still) has to be Trump
The only important question in the American election is this: who will make the better president, Hillary Clinton or Donald…
John Howard: no villain, no racist but instead one of our best
John Howard, for the very reason that he was one of our best and longest serving prime ministers, remains the bête noire of…
Pauline appeals! Elites in shock!
The reaction to Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech was a reminder that like Disraeli’s England, Australia is now two nations ,…
Aux bien pensants
Treachery at the heart of our politics Australians have been told over and over that Senator Dastyari has broken no…
Fall of a political pin-up
After NSW Premier Mike Baird, with his Greens and neo-Marxist allies rammed through a ban on greyhound racing, ‘Kim Il…
A bank inquiry: what happens if the parliament and executive clash?
Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has received advice from the Clerk of the Senate, Rosemary Laing, that the Senate and House of Representatives…
Aux bien pensants
Why do some governments behave as if they’re little more than thieves in the night? Why is it that the…
A tried and tested solution for the NT royal commission to consider
Surely the federal government would have learned by now to avoid a knee jerk reaction the ABC hopes for whenever…
