Terry Barnes

Do young Australians still care about Anzac Day?

25 April 2025 6:19 pm

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?

23 April 2025 5:13 pm

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

13 April 2025 5:57 pm

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

12 April 2025 5:43 pm

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

31 March 2025 5:36 pm

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

28 March 2025 7:07 pm

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?

14 March 2025 7:30 pm

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

20 February 2025 9:24 pm

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

31 January 2025 11:54 pm

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

26 January 2025 5:00 pm

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

23 January 2025 2:39 am

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?

21 January 2025 2:04 am

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

13 January 2025 9:19 pm

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

9 January 2025 9:46 pm

At a time when Donald Trump threatens to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal, China is flexing its military and…

Australia’s godless Christmas

24 December 2024 8:15 pm

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

11 November 2024 7:50 pm

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?

8 November 2024 7:54 pm

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

23 October 2024 6:04 pm

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

21 October 2024 8:19 pm

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

15 October 2024 5:00 pm

Australia, where King Charles will return to on Friday, is where the monarch became a man. In 1966, Charles had…

Worth the hype

11 October 2024 2:00 am

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

8 October 2024 4:06 am

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

1 October 2024 8:57 pm

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

11 September 2024 10:02 pm

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

10 September 2024 9:56 pm

A young mother, picnicking with friends in a Brisbane park, shouldn’t now be praying for the recovery of her nine-month-old…