The fight of my life
Mr President, Not far from where you sit, some 10 metres from the entrance to this old chamber, there’s a…
Mark Latham: back in the bullring, uncensored
This is the full text of the Maiden Speech of the Hon Mark Latham MLC presented to the New South…
Six sins of Shorten
The impending federal election will be a referendum on economic policy, the like of which Australia hasn’t seen since 1993.…
Elvis diary
Everyone, at least once in life, should go to the Elvis Festival in Parkes, Central NSW.The Leftist elites would hate…
Latham’s law
Sharman Stone is not exactly a household name, not even in her own house. In two decades as a federal…
Latham’s law
I’ve found a solution to the world’s problems. We need to get David Duke to say the following words: ‘Political…
Latham’s law
One of the weaknesses in the Australian education system is a lack of understanding of civics. Teaching children the basics…
Latham’s law
I love a rollicking book of insults as much as the next person. In typical Australian style they lean towards…
Latham’s law
There’s a surprisingly simple way of ending the malaise in Australian politics. Turn off the fast forward button. Everything is…
Latham’s law
It’s the iron law of government administration. After a new bureaucracy is established, initially with limited powers and responsibilities, it…
Latham’s law
‘So where the bloody hell are you?’ Lara Bingle beseeched overseas travellers in Scott Morrison’s successful 2006 television ad. Morrison…
Latham’s law
Julia Gillard called it hyper-bowl. Last week Niki Savva turned it into an art form when she described the end…
Latham’s Law
When Matt Damon starred in the movie Downsizing earlier this year, he could not have known he was providing a…
Australian diary
After my stoush with Graham Richardson on Sky News last month I haven’t been invited back onto the show where…
Latham’s law
Who would have thought? It turns out Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser were racists. Poor old Gough spent decades in…
Latham’s law
Just when the health system in inner-Melbourne and Sydney was coming to terms with the psychotic conditions caused by Donald…
Latham’s law
It was the best news Fairfax ever published: the story of its demise. Yet to listen to the wailing Fairfax…
Latham’s law
Before his death in July 1826, Thomas Jefferson wrote the epitaph for his own gravestone and insisted it carry ‘not…
Latham’s law
Have new communication technologies suddenly become dangerous? I always thought texting on whiz-bang iPhones was a good thing.If my daughter’s…
Latham’s law
Every parent knows the problem. An errant child who is always telling lies, whether it’s ‘I didn’t take them’, ‘I…
Latham’s law
The education system used to be so straightforward. But now, with the classics of Western civilisation being chucked into the…
Trump towers
In his 1977 book The Age of Uncertainty, the American economist John Kenneth Galbraith depicted the great leaders of history…
Latham’s law
At last, there’s a break in the weather. As identity politics has swept across Australia like a crackling thunderstorm, drenching…
Latham’s law
What was Paul Ramsay thinking? In dedicating part of his estate’s $3 billion endowment to course work at an Australian…
Latham’s Law
In the Middle Ages, society had a long list of taboo terms, usually associated with witchcraft. In today’s politics, the…
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