Aux bien pensants
At war Australia, along with all of the West, is at war. The enemy is Islamic terrorism. What should we…
Worth losing the base?
Donald Trump has identified a phenomenon in the Western media which many suspect and which believers in a free press…
Marine or Macron?
If the voters obey the elites and elect Emmanuel Macron, the Fifth Republic may well be doomed, which could have…
‘Head of state’? Did I say that?
Malcolm Turnbull has always been a vote loser, contrary to the opinion of the commentariat who put him there. Apart…
Malcolm Turnbull: governing for headlines and opinion polls
You would think that after imposing what they had promised not to impose, a new tax on superannuation, or the backpacker tax,…
Labor voters’ choice? Tony.
Tony Abbott is a ‘very good human being’, ‘his decency quite impossible to overlook’, declares the ALP eminence, Graham Richardson.…
Rejoice: America is back
In the vast array of comment concerning President Trump’s intervention in Syria, recall that most commentators, whether American or not, refused to…
Australian notes
The Human Rights Commission must go Described by its leading victim, Bill Leak, as a ‘rogue totalitarian unit’, the Human…
Our failing political class
Too many problems in modern Australia country have been either created by our ruling political class or made significantly worse by…
Pauline Hanson isn’t ripping off Queensland. Canberra’s ripping off the West
The accusation by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk that Pauline Hanson is trying to rip $1.6 billion from her home state to send to…
Tony Abbott must return
If the country is to be saved from impending disaster, Tony Abbott, like General MacArthur must return. (This will probably be…
Greg Craven’s strange nightmares
Professor Greg Craven seems to have had some awful nightmares about the collapse of constitutional government in Australia. But neither…
Tony, Pauline and Cory
The best chance of sound and honest government returning to Australia will be the emergence of, if not a grand…
Tony, Pauline and Cory
The best chance of sound and honest government returning to Australia will be the emergence of, if not a grand…
Mr Trumble’s dumb deal
President Trump was right. It was a ‘dumb deal’, dumb for both Australia and the United States. First, it was…
Mr Trumble’s dumb deal
President Trump was right. It was a ‘dumb deal’, dumb for both Australia and the United States. First, it was…
Australian notes
Invasion of the farm snatchers As part of its curious strategy of attacking its base, the Turnbull government seems intent…
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…
