Dystopic pregnancy
The mathematical, reading and science skills of Australian school students are in serious decline with the average student now close…
Convention of Outsiders
Confidence in our political system has collapsed, as the internationally respected 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer records. Politicians usually justify our…
But what about survival of the press — and the role of the ABC?
The Australian media have always been subject to competition law. So why should there be special laws about their structure?…
The Prime Minister’s protection racket
The Prime Minister is in a terrible mess. Not because of the photograph cuddling his grandchild and holding a glass…
Aux bien pensants
Everything and anything to bring Australia down Will our elites succeed in bringing Australia down, just as Argentina and especially…
If you don’t know, vote no
From its previous decisions, it is possible, indeed probable that the High Court will stop the same-sex marriage plebiscite on…
Burkas and broken oaths: complete the constitution
My blood ran cold. A woman – I assume she was a woman – came towards me in a burka…
Aux bien pensants
Say Yes to No Just as the appeasement of Nazi Germany ended with Chamberlain’s Declaration of War at 11.15am on…
Same sex notes
Hang the Senate: let the people decide However much he has foolishly encouraged it, the Prime Minister cannot tolerate…
Constitutional notes
When no means no The golden rule for constitutional change is that this should only be contemplated if it…
Liberal notes
Rosehill: democracy reborn The Rosehill Convention of the NSW Liberal Party may go down in history as the beginning…
Aux bien pensants
Boxers, Accountants & Emperors In cleansing the Liberal Party, their anti-corruption consultant has scored another victory. The latest culprit is…
Australian notes
LINO takeover Did that curious phone call really mean I was to be dragged before some Liberal inquisition to suffer…
Thespian notes
Vacancy for a leader, not a comedian Malcolm Turnbull is the latest Australian politician to risk relations with our most…
Politicians and political activists cannot sit in judgement
The resignation of Professor David Weisbrot from the Australian Press Council was not necessary. This relates to the controversy concerning the…
Manus: a ten point plan to recover our honour, our borders and our country
The Turnbull government has gone to water over the claim by about 1900 Manus Island detainees. It could have and…
Barbarians and Marxists
The election of President Trump was, along with Brexit, one of the great events, not only of 2016, but of…
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…
