Features Australia
Disaster’s long march through the institutions
Derelict thinking throughout central and local body government and indeed all our management (including academic) areas, is now recognised as…
You say ‘diversity’. I hear quotas
Ever wonder where all this talk of ‘diversity’ started? Well, it actually dates back some four decades to a 1978…
Summer books
The year has been an odd one for books, with some trying to make sense of the political landscape and…
Lighting bushfires
The recent tragic bushfires reignited the argument about global warming – the science is settled – and burnt the Green-Left…
The Kurds troubled way
Pictures of Kurdish women fighters alongside men surprised many in the West and the October withdrawal of American forces from…
Jesus of Palestine?
You are in a tizz. Christmas is just around the corner and you can’t think of the right present for…
Humbling hills
Hidden in the spectacular rugged mountains of the far north Flinders Ranges at Arkaroola is a climate story written in…
Trump’s re-election is crucial
Show trials, where the accused have no rights and guilt is predetermined, are integral to communist and Nazi regimes. They…
RAP artists of the ABC
Our household switches on ABC TV at 6pm and checks how long it takes to sight an Aboriginal-identifying Australian. Typically,…
Business/Robbery etc
When directors of Australia’s leading companies start questioning the profit motive on which their success was based, then the system…
Death by reverse dog whistle
On 9 October, 2012 Prime Minister Julia Gillard famously stood up in parliament to accuse Leader of the Opposition Tony…
Submarines versus Facebook
Eyeing Beijing, Taiwan’s political class is nervous, yet again. Australia is jumpy too for lesser reasons. Taiwan’s fear looms close…
Brainwashing your kids
In The New Authoritarianism, University of Sydney academic Salvatore Babones makes the telling observation that while elected politicians might believe…
Politician, thy name is hypocrisy
In the National Party room… everyone…tenaciously… opposed dairy deregulation. (But) when they came back in here (into the chamber), they…
Labour’s ugly taint of antisemitism
Religious leaders generally steer well clear of politics during election campaigns and nobody can remember when one ever before made…
Clive’s noble cause
The great Clive James died on the same day as the great Jonathan Miller but I know which one I…
Business/Robbery etc
It is not going away. Corporate leaders are increasingly stepping outside their legal requirement to serve the best interests of…
Academia rooted
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences continues to be the standard bearer for everything that is…
Teaching untruths about Jews
Physical Education teachers are caricatured as tormenting the unfit children in the class but in fact they are an essential…
London Bridge is falling down
On 30 November 2019, we were witness to a shocking display of behaviour on London Bridge, that our misandrist citizens…
Lock up the politicians
A favourite argument of the elites is that something is ‘inevitable’ or, more subtly, ‘the planets are aligned’. Blasting what…
Trump, impeachment and the media
Many of us living in the Westminster parliamentary part of the democratic world don’t have much grasp of what the…
Endangered species
Not long ago, visiting the hospital unit of a local rest home, I listened to a gathering of those too…
Hydrogen’s all hot air
Faced with evidence that the Paris Agreement on limiting emissions is being ignored, including news that China is building or…
Haunted by the miserable ghost
I still think back to that night in mid-May this year: scrutineering in some far-flung warehouse in suburban Melbourne, running…
