Rebecca Weisser

Rebecca Weisser is a research fellow of the Danube Institute

Eat the chefs

3 August 2019 9:00 am

The offenderati have been baying for blood ever since it was revealed that MasterChef Australia judge George Calombaris had been…

Through thick and spin

27 July 2019 9:00 am

Once upon a time, Britain sent Australia its excess convicts.  These days we get Tony Blair’s old spin doctors, a…

An upside to invasion?

20 July 2019 9:00 am

Nathan Moran, of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council in Sydney, kicked off Naidoc week by criticising the city’s publicly-funded…

Ghostbusters

13 July 2019 9:00 am

Last week the miserable ghost of Malcolm Turnbull put in an apparition at the Friends of Wolper Jewish Hospital. Presumably…

Another Sampson blinded in Gaza

6 July 2019 9:00 am

Hooray for Pallywood, or rather Gazallywood, that wonderful melange of misleading footage, falsehoods, fakeries and frauds that makes up so…

Go fund yourself!

29 June 2019 9:00 am

In 2009, on ABC’s Q&A, host Tony Jones asked host of Channel Ten’s The Project and practising Muslim Waleed Aly…

China’s organ grinder

22 June 2019 9:00 am

Political violence is rare in Australia but a senior partner at a Sydney accounting firm gave a new ‘twist’ to…

Undie-cover agents

15 June 2019 9:00 am

Last week, with all the stealth of the pirates of Penzance, Australia’s Federal Police, raided not one but two major…

They’re a weird religious mob

8 June 2019 9:00 am

‘I cannot believe in this election that there is a discussion even under way that gay people will go to…

The sloppiest suicide note

25 May 2019 9:00 am

‘No-one saw it coming,’ the shocked commentariat claimed. Goodness.  Where are the ABC’s fact checkers when you need them? In…

Dirty dancing with Fannie and Freddie

18 May 2019 9:00 am

You don’t need a crystal ball to see that whoever wins our federal election, the taxpayer is going to be…

The nutters we had to have

11 May 2019 9:00 am

‘Every now and then you have to flick the switch to vaudeville,’ former prime minister Paul Keating once said, and…

Doomsday, again

4 May 2019 9:00 am

‘NOW is Not the time for Business AS usual,’ read the grumpy boy’s placard as he munched on an apple…

The Curate’s NEG

27 April 2019 9:00 am

It’s been all the fun of the fair as a 10-day long weekend gave voters a chance to observe the…

Whiffy-leaks

20 April 2019 9:00 am

If fish and visitors stink in three days, as Benjamin Franklin advised, it’s easy to see how Wikileaks founder Julian…

Vale Peter Coleman

6 April 2019 9:00 am

William Peter Coleman (15 December 1928 – 31 March 2019) was that increasingly rare creature in contemporary Australia, a great…

Unis? Must try harder

30 March 2019 9:00 am

‘I’m a revolutionary Marxist, and if you’re not one by the end of semester I haven’t done my job properly,’…

The Left’s bad joke

23 March 2019 9:00 am

After the atrocity comes the inevitable blame game. Hardly waiting to draw breath, Wajahat Ali leapt into print in the…

Venice diary

20 May 2017 9:00 am

The Biennale The Venice Biennale has been a rite of every second spring since 1895. The oldest biennial art fair…

Laughing gas

6 May 2017 9:00 am

The latest lunatic government intervention into Australian energy markets conjures up the old lady who swallowed a fly. In 2001,…

What, no Nobel Peace Prize?

29 April 2017 9:00 am

Trump’s first 100 days: A big failure and a new low in the polls, blasted the Washington Post in March,…

The sinister sharia sisterhood

8 April 2017 9:00 am

‘Ayaan Hirsi (is) asking 4 an a$$ whippin’. I wish I could take (her) vagina away – (she doesn’t) deserve…

Bill and the Lilliputians

18 March 2017 9:00 am

The death of great men illuminate the darkness like lightning on a stormy night. So it is with Bill Leak,…

La la Libs

4 March 2017 9:00 am

The commentariat are almost unanimous that Tony Abbott should not have launched our book Making Australia Right: Where to From…

La la Libs

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

The commentariat are almost unanimous that Tony Abbott should not have launched our book Making Australia Right: Where to From…