Features Australia

Death penalty for wannabe martyrs

3 June 2017 9:00 am

Sooner or later some deranged Islamic fundamentalist is going to kill a lot of Australians for the greater glory of…

Islands in the stream

3 June 2017 9:00 am

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr said ‘I would not give a fig for simplicity before complexity, but for simplicity after complexity…

Abortion fantasies

3 June 2017 9:00 am

Three weeks ago, Parliament voted decisively to reject a bill that would have decriminalised abortion. Members of the New South…

Business/Robbery etc

3 June 2017 9:00 am

Guilty. It’s not just the political class wrecking Australia’s economic future. Beside them in the dock are the overpaid corporate…

Aux bien pensants

3 June 2017 9:00 am

At war Australia, along with all of the West, is at war. The enemy is Islamic terrorism. What should we…

Who put the cult into multiculturalism?

27 May 2017 9:00 am

A British General of the Raj, told that suttee was an Indian custom, replied: ‘We have a custom too. When…

Obamacare, Trumpcare… Mediscare?

27 May 2017 9:00 am

In his joint press conference with Malcolm Turnbull in New York this month, Donald Trump said that Australia has ‘better…

Green power fantasies

27 May 2017 9:00 am

The cool phrases among the proponents of green electricity are ‘distributed networks’ and ‘micro networks’ which, we are told, will…

Back to basics

27 May 2017 9:00 am

At the end of law school you undertake ‘practical legal training’ to develop the essential skills of advocacy our adversarial…

Holy Land Diary

27 May 2017 9:00 am

Last week, I was in Tel Aviv, to receive an honorary doctorate. The official party entered to the strains of…

Budget notes

20 May 2017 9:00 am

Stealing Shorten’s shorts In 1845 Benjamin Disraeli said of Britain’s Tory Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, that he had ‘caught…

Identity politics

20 May 2017 9:00 am

The budget week just gone has marked the moment when both sides of politics officially gave up on budget repair…

Worth losing the base?

20 May 2017 9:00 am

Donald Trump has identified a phenomenon in the Western media which many suspect and which believers in a free press…

Business/Robbery etc

20 May 2017 9:00 am

It’s one of the few bits of Liberal economic policy left in the budget – and judging by the pathetic…

Turnbull’s twilight urgatory

20 May 2017 9:00 am

‘I Told You So!’. These are not words that listeners usually enjoy hearing. In fact, if you’re looking for a…

Snowflake warriors

20 May 2017 9:00 am

Australia’s hopes rest in its youth, or so people used to say in the expectation that rising generations would build…

Sinking into oppression

13 May 2017 9:00 am

We were saying things around the dinner table last Friday night and Gillian Triggs could not stop us. We were…

A solid dose of aggro

13 May 2017 9:00 am

This isn’t an easy confession to make in the pages of this august publication, but I grudgingly admire the ACTU’s…

Whose party is it, anyway?

13 May 2017 9:00 am

The writing may be on the wall for those lobbyist Liberal Party factional bosses who have successfully defied the decrees…

Another costly folly

13 May 2017 9:00 am

Under the guise of compassion and atonement for past injustices suffered by Aborigines, white activists, joined by overseas imports, have…

German attacks on Israel

6 May 2017 9:00 am

It might be thought that Germany would still feel a bit… er… sensitive in its dealing with Jews. Indeed, the…

Marine or Macron?

6 May 2017 9:00 am

If the voters obey the elites and elect Emmanuel Macron, the Fifth Republic may well be doomed, which could have…

Restoring the Romanovs

6 May 2017 9:00 am

Our exclusive interview with Alexander Zakatov, Head of the Chancellery of the Russian Imperial House

Laughing gas

6 May 2017 9:00 am

The latest lunatic government intervention into Australian energy markets conjures up the old lady who swallowed a fly. In 2001,…

Dance of the budget veils

6 May 2017 9:00 am

Conventional wisdom holds that an elected government’s first budget should be its bravest. Albeit with a micro-majority, Malcolm Turnbull is…