The real Stolen Generation
Give us back our kids
Where have all the blue bottles gone?
It used to be common on some hot summer days at Sydney beaches for surfers to mysteriously wear full-length wetsuits…
Albo’s big night out
Not even Menzies looked this good in a penguin suit, Anthony Albanese thought to himself as he stood before the…
London diary
Confirmation that we had finally left Australia’s increasingly stultifying wokeness behind came when our Qantas jet touched down in Singapore.…
Covid notes
A day at the anti-lockdown rally When your only observations of protest marches are from television news reports, it’s easy…
Aussie Life
Every time a dog cocks its leg to urinate on the Federation Pavilion in Centennial Park, Sydney, a terminally ill…
What are the odds of a politician saying something sensible about sharks?
For the first time in five years, an Australian politician has acknowledged a bleeding obvious fact about the way we…
Australian notes
Smiling Prince of Victoria Even in these authoritarian times, life can still be unpredictable. I was in Melbourne recently and,…
Aussie surfers riding a wave of hypocrisy
No fossil fuels: no boards, no wetsuits, no trips to foreign surf breaks
Who needs oil if surfers can summon shamanistic energy?
If environmentalism is the new pagan religion then protests are its ritualistic ceremonies. This was the theory I was hoping…
Fight for the Bight has jumped the shark
The Great Australian Bight has been the focus for two environmental campaigns this week. Typically for such campaigns, each seems…
Shark bait
‘That moment when they lock eyes and they acknowledge you, it’s hard to put it into words,’ a clearly smitten…
Portrait of an artist as ghost
There are difficult decisions to be made when writing the posthumous biography of a close friend who was as famous…
Surfers snake Bight oil facts and jobs
Move over, Adani. There’s a new group of protesters in town, and they are as fanatical as the zealots using…
Tolerance – or else
The organisers of the Hardcore Till I Die festival and the managers of Sydney Newtown Hotel both deserve credit for…
What I learned at the hand of Brother Joseph
If anybody used the term ‘religious freedom’ during my childhood, I would have assumed it referred to the times at…
Mentawai diary
The Mentawais are a chain of islands off Sumatra, Indonesia, the lower southwest coast of which has the highest concentration…
Shorten’s republic makes Brexit look well thought through
Bill Shorten has promised a plebiscite on the republic should he become prime minister after the next federal election. Unlike…
‘Righto, what’s his name then?’
As he winds down his five-year tenure as an Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane is redoubling the political divisiveness…
Australian diary
Having become jaded by years of phony multiculturalism, which in Australia has led to cultural ghettos, dual citizenships, victimhood and…
Faith, truth, love – and beauty
Of all the left’s grievances against western civilisation, few are as old or as constant as its demonisation of Christianity.…
Gays, trans and damned statistics
Australia’s 17th census, conducted in 2016, was the first since the exercise began in 1911 to offer respondents the option…
Pilgrim’s notes
Black paintings and missing uncle bill You know you live in relatively peaceful times when an insurrection leads to little…
Popping down to Winki Pop
Surfers were the last of this planet’s great explorers. They followed the paths forged centuries earlier by missionaries and colonisers,…
Shark Notes
Bloodlust of the greenies First they came for the surfers, and I did not speak out because… wait. What? Surfers…
