Recalibrate Australia
All pay rises for public servants to be frozen until after the pandemic is over! Shock horror! Hospitality industry unions…
Apoxalypse now
Last week we asked whether Scott Morrison and the Australian medical authorities would learn the lessons of Italy and impose…
Cover 21 March 2020 AU
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Cover 14 March 2020 AU
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Coronavirus confusion
With people swarming the aisles of our supermarkets grabbing every multipack of dunny paper they can lay their hands on,…
Cover 7 March 2020 AU
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Through the ABC’s looking glass
‘How can you look at future technologies? They’re not invented yet!’ retorted Leigh Sales gleefully. If Lewis Carroll had created…
Cover 29 February 2020 AU
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To Boris, from down under
Dear Boris, How ironic that at the very moment you succeed in unshackling your great country from the tyranny and…
Cover 22 February 2020 AU
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Bye bye Holden, meat pies…
If you think the shutting down of Holden, the end of that much-loved brand, the loss of automotive jobs and…
Cover 15 February 2020 AU
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Will Morrison fight?
To ‘culturally appropriate’ General George S. Patton: No bastard ever won a war by refusing to fight the battle. Slowly,…
Climate warriors
It’s been an endless summer but not in the style of the 1966 classic film of sun and surf. Our…
Ms Nina Funnell
On January 30 The Spectator Australia published an online opinion piece by Ms Bettina Arndt containing references to journalist Ms Nina Funnell.…
Cover 1 February 2020 AU
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Charles threatens the Crown
Australia’s constitutional monarchy, much like Canada’s, is one of the great success stories to have grown out of the British…
Political hazard reduction
After several weeks of being caught on the hop by the severity of the bushfires, it appears Scott Morrison has…
Gone with the Windsors
These are tumultuous times for the Royal Family. No one was surprised when Meghan Markle, a former TV actress from…
Death of a terrorist
The death of Iran’s terrorist- in-chief, Qassem Soleimani, brought a swift end to a dangerous adversary but there is no…
Letters
Culling camels Sir: Re: the proposed culling of over ten thousand wild camels in the outback. For some years now,…
A summer to savour
What an extraordinary year. And what a wonderful way for conservative-leaning Australians to head into their summer holidays. Over the…
No time for complacency, ScoMo
The Australian Election Study has analysed every election result since 1987. In seeking to explain why people voted as they…
Our farmers have few friends
Yet again, David Flint has shown that despite being an inner-city dwelling, softly-spoken, smartly-groomed, elegantly-dressed emeritus professor of law and…
Wokepac
The Bank of New South Wales, now Westpac, got its start way back in 1817. For two centuries, its name…



























