Turnbull vs evolution
Conservative antipathy to Malcolm Turnbull isn’t an economic question, it’s an evolutionary one
I come to praise Tony, not to bury him
Despite the flaws, Tony Abbott was a proper conservative
Raving right-wingery?
Run through the Abbott government’s charge sheet and there’s not much evidence of the ‘rabid’ right
It’s the swill, stupid
The Australian parliamentary system is blocking much-needed
Wrong diagnosis, again
Raising the GST will make the problem worse, not better
Steyin’ alive
What are the odds that one of the world’s best political commentators happens to be an expert on the songs…
Mission impossible
The plan to recognise Indigenous Australians within the Constitution will self destruct after this message...
Big Easy notes
I’m hoping that at least a few readers will be happy to hear that I survived my first ever trip…
Closing young minds
The ‘Lomborg affair’ shows the intellectual bankruptcy of contemporary Australian academia
May day! May day!
Tony Abbott will be in trouble if he doesn’t heed the lessons of two imminent elections where Conservatives are floundering
GSTea Party
The current system of financing the states should be thrown overboard
Hounds or poodles?
On the ongoing Speccie debate - when should conservative commentators attack Abbott (if at all?)
Our Constitution and the Senate
The system is broken
Even the states dislike federalism
There can be only one explanation why the Victorian government would ask Canberra to help it out – cowardice
Let him who is without sin…
Now is not the time to begin fiddling with our workplace relations
The Y.U.U.Y. disease
Mr Abbott’s problem is that he’s got ‘yielding’ and ‘unyielding the wrong way around
Censorship guide
Here is a wee little guide for all of you people who work for the ABC, or Get-Up!, or the…
Jarryd Hayne, meet Adam Smith
Of all the sports on earth, one was clearly designed by a free marketeer
Responding to murderous bullies
The media can defeat the Islamists’ terrorising threat tofree speech by themselves
Wicked versus Stupid
Where one side of politics revels in sanctimonious moralising, the other ignores it altogether
The Silence of the Barnes
Many on the right believe the rest of us on the right should refrain from criticising the Abbott government. They’re wrong.
Freedom’s just another word
Tony Abbott claims freedom-of-expression is hard-wired into the Coalition’s DNA. But is it?
Cheques and balances
The Palmer/Greens/Labor Senate inquiry into the Queensland state government is a disgrace
A funny thing happened on the way to the Senate
The Upper House in our federal parliament has become a maverick - much like those who sit in it
Tony Abbott – the new David Cameron?
In ditching reforms to 18C, Tony Abbott has pandered to the Left whilst alienating the Right