Do young Australians still care about Anzac Day?
Today is Anzac Day, arguably the most solemnly sacred day in the Australian calendar. At dawn on this day in…
Could Trump cost Australia’s Liberals victory?
Since Australia’s general election was called by Labor prime minister Anthony Albanese at the end of March, the contest for…
Did my Coalition policy launch dream come true, and other thoughts
Here I am again, a glass of red this time rather than a gin and tonic. Goodness knows, I need…
I dreamt about the Coalition’s policy launch
The Coalition formally launches its election campaign on Sunday. After a fortnight of a Seinfeld election – an election about…
Tough love for the Coalition as its campaign is slow to get going
I’m writing this at lunchtime on Monday. In federal election campaigns, for logistical necessity major policy drops and media opportunities…
Australia is bracing itself for a chaotic general election
Early this morning, even before dawn broke, Australia’s Labor party prime minister, Anthony Albanese, asked the country’s governor-general to call…
Is a criminal gang exploiting anti-Semitism in Australia?
In late January, Australians were convulsed out of their summer holiday torpor by what appeared to be an elaborate anti-Semitic…
Meet Clive Palmer – Australia’s answer to Donald Trump
Imagine Screaming Lord Sutch with hundreds of millions of pounds to spend. That probably best sums up the flamboyant Australian…
Australia’s Jews are living in fear
Just when it seemed Australia’s anti-Semitism crisis couldn’t worsen, it has. This week, it was disclosed that a caravan loaded…
Australia Day has been hijacked by activists
Australia’s national day, which falls today, has two purposes. It is an opportunity for Australians to celebrate who they are…
Australia can’t blame foreign actors for its anti-Semitism shame
Australia is supposed to be a nation of tolerance and acceptance – the one place in a troubled world where people…
Why is Novak Djokovic getting so tetchy?
On his record, Novak Djokovic deserves to be rated as the greatest singles tennis player of the last 50 years.…
Djokovic must forgive and forget his shoddy Covid experience in Australia
Another Australian Open tennis tournament, another Novak Djokovic media sensation. As play gets under way at Melbourne Park, Djokovic the…
Beach turf wars are dividing Australia
At a time when Donald Trump threatens to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal, China is flexing its military and…
Australia’s godless Christmas
As Christmas comes around again, we will discover that Australia is no longer a Christian country. According to the most…
Jamie Oliver shouldn’t have cowed to the Aboriginal offence-takers
The celebrity cook Jamie Oliver has a sideline as an author. Not all his books are about cooking and food:…
Could Kevin Rudd’s Trump tweets cost him his career?
If British Labour ministers and officials find dealing with President Donald Trump 2.0 a formidable challenge, their Australian Labor cousins…
Lidia Thorpe has emboldened protests against King Charles
King Charles and Queen Camilla flew to Samoa for the Commonwealth leaders’ meeting early on Wednesday, after completing their visit…
Ignore the heckling, Charles’s Australia visit has been a triumph
If King Charles and Queen Camilla were feeling a tad apprehensive about their reception in Australia, they needn’t have worried.…
Australia’s republicans are embarrassing themselves over King Charles’s visit
Australia, where King Charles will return to on Friday, is where the monarch became a man. In 1966, Charles had…
Worth the hype
On Monday, Canada’s current and next Prime Ministers, Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre, gave consecutive speeches at a Jewish community…
John Pesutto should not go – yet
It’s being reported in the Melbourne newspapers that the state Liberal leadership of embattled incumbent, John Pesutto, is likely to…
A Tasmanian court has widened Australia’s gender divide
It’s hard to make head or tail of where Australia stands on the gender debate that has divided the West.…
Australia’s social media ban for children won’t work
I was born in the final years of the baby boom. To my generation of children, a social network was…
The terror of Australia’s random coffee attack
A young mother, picnicking with friends in a Brisbane park, shouldn’t now be praying for the recovery of her nine-month-old…
