Tom Akhurst

History flips as walls rise in the West

1 April 2020 5:00 am

On one frosty Autumn’s night in 1989, thousands of communist evacuees swelled over a fallen Berlin Wall to the embrace…

Al Jazeera has exposed One Nation as part of the political establishment

31 March 2019 12:04 pm

During an eighteenth century parliamentary debate, British statesman Edmund Burke professed that “in the reporters’ gallery yonder, there sat a…

Brexit: a distortion of democracy

20 February 2019 6:49 pm

The Brits have been left out to dry in a lousy Brexit process. Last week, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called…

The looming Liberal extinction event

29 December 2018 3:24 pm

Malcolm Turnbull did not lead a ‘Labor-lite’ government. He led a Liberal government for the twenty-first century. I almost choked…

It’s the end of the world as we know it

18 June 2018 8:00 am

The most unlikely shaking of hands threatens to invert the world as we know it, but that may not be…

What crisis of conservatism?

4 April 2018 7:19 pm

Last month I attended The Australian’s ‘Big Voices on Big Issues’ panel discussion in Melbourne. Senior columnists Janet Albrechtson and…

Why the left has it so wrong on refugee policy

1 December 2017 7:04 am

In September, the first 54 of those remaining refugees on Manus Island and Nauru departed for arrival in the United…