Salvatore Babones

The toilet paper pugilists have more morals than our vice-chancellors

16 March 2020 12:35 pm

Many Australians are rightly concerned about the health risks posed by the arrival of the coronavirus on our shores. Elderly…

Death by reverse dog whistle

14 December 2019 9:00 am

On 9 October, 2012 Prime Minister Julia Gillard famously stood up in parliament to accuse Leader of the Opposition Tony…

Off with his head!

12 October 2019 9:00 am

The President of the United States is a sort of elected monarch, which is why the office itself is imbued…

Les États Unis will always be a foreign country to Macron

31 August 2019 9:00 am

Last weekend’s G7 summit of political leaders from the world’s largest democratic economies opened with a surprise, as the French…

Our universities Chinese cash cows crisis

26 August 2019 2:29 pm

Australia’s universities are taking a multi-billion-dollar gamble with taxpayer money to pursue a high-risk, high-reward international growth strategy that may…

Australia’s content laws are just so… European

10 August 2019 9:00 am

Australians love Netflix. If statistics are to be believed, roughly half of all Australians have a Netflix subscriber in their…

Four ponies of the apocalypse

27 July 2019 9:00 am

The open secret of Donald Trump’s political success is that he is always in the news. He seems to live…

Indigenous voice?

13 July 2019 9:00 am

It’s Naidoc Week in Australia, and this year’s theme is: ‘Voice. Treaty. Truth. Let’s work together.’ As the locals are…

Demography is destiny

29 June 2019 9:00 am

When Sky News asked Australian Labor MP Anne Aly why she opposed the Coalition’s tax cut plan, she cited ‘the…

The Greening and Fall of European Civilisation

8 June 2019 9:00 am

The European Parliament election results are in, and the Guardian has proclaimed a ‘green wave’. Winning roughly 9 per cent…

Robotaxis to the rescue

11 May 2019 9:00 am

Australia enjoys some of the least reliable and most costly electric power in the developed world. There’s some argument about…

Let’s deplatform the deplatformers

13 April 2019 9:00 am

When controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson toured Australia and New Zealand in February, tickets sold out in days. In Brisbane,…