Australian notes
On Noel and Richo Last week in the Australian Noel Pearson wrote a piece responding to Graham Richardson’s earlier claim…
I believe the children are our future?
What do German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon,…
A politically incorrect three-point plan for government
Same-sex marriage off the agenda? Here is my politically incorrect list of what any right-of-centre political party in Australia needs…
Australian notes
Sensible centre is for suckers I am going to point to the US, the UK and modern mainstream protestant…
Gillian Triggs: the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
In today’s Australian Chris Kenny has a wholly accurate piece on Gillian Triggs. Kenny sets out the ways in which Triggs…
The crucial left/right divide
Forget all the recent talk about labels and who gets to wear the tag of ‘centrist’ or ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’…
The black hands of Liberalism
Somewhere near Liberal Party HQ the comrades of the Black Hand gathered to discuss their next move in the overthrow…
If you thought the federal Liberal Party was bad…
This weekend’s truly awful swing against the Libs in NSW reminds us all that as bad as the Liberal politicians…
There is no alternative?
How many readers believe that any political party in the democratic world can continue to win every single election for…
Thinking further about your departure, Cory…
What’s done is done and can n’er be undone. You’ve left the Liberal Party behind and barring a Black Swan set of circumstances…
Fatuous fallacies
I confess that my expectations when it comes to Liberal Party MPs are pretty low these days. Many of them are quite content with…
The 16 per cent non-solution
As you read this it will have been half a year since Mr Turnbull and the Coalition limped back into…
When did aristocracy come back into vogue?
Listen these days to some of the world’s elite politicians, commentators and officials pontificate and you’d think you were living…
Those upper house blues
Here’s a question for all you readers. Of course I don’t expect anyone who’s gone through an Australian high school…
Groupthink in the media and political classes
Never have so few done so little for so many. That more or less sums up our political class in…
How many like me?
So to all those Liberal MPs, and perhaps to Barnaby Joyce and the Nats, here’s something you need to consider,…
Elementary, my dear Henry
One of the main reasons to buy the Australian these days is to read Judith Sloan and Henry Ergas. Both…
Super bad
Remember a short while back when all of us had a bit of a laugh over the then latest Turnbull…
Leaving the dance with the one who brought you
Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, a Tory, got some things right during his tenure in office. He fought an…
Del-Conmania
There’s a new phrase doing the rounds in the corridors of pro-Turnbull supporters. When you say it you have to…
Flagging interest
Prime Minister John Key of New Zealand wants a new flag. What to do? What to do? What to do?…
Fool’s gold
On March 3rd the President of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), Professor Rosalind Croucher, wrote an opinion piece in…
Chasing the latte vote
As I write this column Newspoll is showing that the Coalition and Labor are in a 50-50 tie in terms…
Betting on, er, Trump
This year’s biggest and most consequential election is not the one that will be held here in Australia. In fact,…
The road to bigger government spending
Close your eyes and pretend for a moment that you are a top policy-maker in Canberra. On top of that,…
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