The metastasising of 18c
My first action, after the initial wave of nauseated disbelief had passed, was to check on Google to see if…
Gaza and World Vision: Where was the Australian Embassy?
Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service claims that the major non-Governmental charity World Vision has funneled millions of dollars to…
Who’s xenophobic now?
Labor are a little too quick to accuse others of ‘racism’
Liberal values hi-jacked!
The peculiar appointment of Mr Laundy
Slap in the face
Voting to retain compulsory student union fees is a betrayal of core Liberal values
Hat trick
Kipling once wrote a poem lamenting that the three-volume romantic novel (‘The old three-decker’) was said to be extinct. It…
Islamic extremism, Nazism and modernity
Exposure to the liberal, modern, progressive world may not be enough to stem the lust for unthinkable barbarism
Three authors and Islam
We may be shocked by the Islamists’ barbarity, but we can’t say we weren’t warned
One of the immortals
I feel I have lost part of myself with the death of Harry Butler at the age of 85. Though…
Conservatives, maintain your rage
Should Australian conservative Liberals simply lie back and think of Wentworth?
Turnbull sticks with ‘offend’ and ‘insult’
His refusal to support the Bob Day changes to 18C will further alienate the new PM from conservatives
A whiff of WA Inc
WA Inc. remains a noisome memory from the 1980s as the worst political scandal in WA politics and one of…
Dockside humour
Thuggery on Australia’s waterfronts has a long and, er, proud history
Some boats shouldn’t be turned back
Gough Whitlam demonised the Vietnamese boat people. We should be welcoming them to our shores.
Ends of the earth
This story, second in a projected series (the first was The Thief Fleet, reviewed in these pages 8 December 2012),…
The rise of the politicians
This book expresses what is being more and more widely felt in English-speaking and other western countries: government is becoming…
