Features Australia
Mad and bad
On a warm summer night in London’s Russell Square a young, Muslim migrant randomly stabs members of the public. He…
In praise of Bill
A few months ago I attended a lunch at which I was serendipitously seated next to a hero of mine,…
Restraining Kevin
If a diplomat, as Winston Churchill once said, is a person who can tell you to go to hell in…
Cabinet is not ‘fit for purpose’
The new cabinet confirmed at its very first meeting that it is not ‘fit for purpose’. With 23 ministers, it…
So even Rudd’s better than a Kiwi?
Anyone who has observed the relationship between Australia and New Zealand over many years is forced to an inescapable conclusion.…
DEL-CON NOTES
With the House of Representatives composition now known, though with the Senate still to be finally decided, this note is…
Business/Music etc
Thanks, but no, thanks. Don’t even bother thinking about complaints that the big end of town should have done more…
Head-counting the Christians
Is it just me, or is there something distinctly uncertain about atheist advertising campaigns? I mean they lack nothing in…
Tora! Tora! Bora!
I have just returned from Japan. The country represents a different model of development, its collective emphasis often chanelled towards…
Deconstructing the construction unions
The Coalition may have prised a slim majority from the jaws of electoral defeat, but the fate of Australia’s construction…
Letters from my husband
At this time of general opprobrium for Britain by the more vociferous officials of the European Union, most particularly Jean-Claude…
Why go into politics?
The state of politics here, and in the United Kingdom, and in the United States, raises the question of why…
Learning when to catch blackfish
The NSW draft curriculum released last week glosses over thousands of years of western development and progress, in favour of…
The case for Isms and Phobias
In a world awash in cultural relativism there remains one absolute commandment: Thou shalt not be -ist. Thou shalt not…
Decline of the West, a hundred years on
The first volume of Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes) was published in 1918, followed…
Dishlicker’s diary
Mr Tom, pet greyhound of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-96), shared a bed with her lover, the colossal…
Aux bien pensants
There is a disturbingly authoritarian trend in Australia, an insistence that out-of-touch politicians know best. Decisions are made reducing or…
Business/Robbery etc
Malcolm Turnbull, already weakened by his narrow election win, has no option but to stick to the substance (excepting unintended…
Death knell
Charlie Lamb is a 55 year old indigenous Australian who has no doubt greyhound racing has enriched his life. ‘When…
A Yankee businessman in the White House
‘I’m a child of the Westminster system.’ For decades living in Boston this was my defence when American reporters asked…
Ironic triumph of hate speech
Recent events here and abroad have amply demonstrated that the Western libertarian idea of individual free speech is a many…
Tolerate – or else!
During the 2016 election campaign, the Australian Greens declared they were spelling the end of the religious exemptions enshrined in…
Slaughter of the…
In response to widespread illegal and unconscionable activity, including the slaughter of tens of thousands of… Thus began NSW…
A conservative abroad
Nude at 40,000 feet It was just before Christmas at The Square in Mayfair – the Australia-loving chef Phil Howard’s…
Malcolm can’t blame Tony for this one
On election night Liberals expected to be clear winners of the longest campaign in memory, with Malcolm Turnbull having vanquished…
