Features Australia
Quest for glory blundered
Napoleon’s judicial murder of the Duke of Enghien was summed up by either his Chief of Police, Joseph Fouche or…
Innovation and iftar
The conventional wisdom surrounding Malcolm Turnbull’s ascension to Prime Minister was that his more moderate leanings would allow him to…
Business/Robbery etc
It looks like costing Australian businesses multi-billions of dollars – and taxpaying Australians multi-billions more. Malcolm Turnbull’s woeful election campaign…
Damned as the devil
Ever wondered how it would feel to have a pack of journalists write about you? Especially one drooling to see…
Guess who’s coming to Iftar?
A widely-publicised Iftar dinner, intended to show that Malcolm Turnbull gets what it means to be inclusive, ended badly after…
Pop go the Swivel-Eyed Loons
To the conventional leftish mind, the European Union is one of those sacred institutions handed down as though from on…
Why can’t we exit, too?
The British people have not only shown us how to recover our country from the elites, Brexit has further reduced…
Detoxing Medicare
Last October, I wrote in these pages that those on the centre-right might one day regret the change of prime…
Turnbull’s Judgement (Day)
This is the second time Malcolm Turnbull has led a national political campaign. The first one ended in tears. This…
Standing with the Yarts
Recently, tweets featuring #istandwiththearts flooded the internet. It was meant to scan ‘I Stand with the Arts’, but I initially…
Business/Robbery etc
The Reserve Bank of Australia has just provided the best election guide for this boring, overlong, misdirected 2016 federal election…
Our health debate is terminal
Many politicians in recent history have found it more rewarding to dupe the public with half-truths and hyperbole rather than…
Rage against the ‘Hate Machine’
During the third leaders’ debate, Bill Shorten warned Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull not to encourage ‘hate and homophobia’ by insisting…
The protective cloak of Islamophilia
I have a problem with the term Islamophobia, for its technical meaning translates as an irrational fear of Islam and…
It’s the religion, stupid
Predictably, the perverse hopes of a few so-called ‘commentators’ that the Orlando nightclub shooter would be a white, conservative Christian…
The age of unreason
California legislators are considering a bill that would make debate on climate change illegal. The Orwellian-sounding Climate Science Truth and…
Greedy Greens
Being wrongly labelled is one of the dangers of political life and a threat to future political success, but we…
Ward of the nanny state
If you want to know what someone utterly bereft of shame looks like, look no further than the lefitsh defenders…
Welcome to country
Imagine if the Nova Peris ‘lived experience’ test was widely applied and allowed to determine who could and could not…
Peta, TV star
When the history of this current Liberal-National government is written (Troy Bramston already has his pen ready) the name Peta…
Who’s xenophobic now?
Labor are a little too quick to accuse others of ‘racism’
Campaign Notes
Liberals are dancing with the devil
Aux bien pensants
This election should be about more than which of two spendthrift assassins is likely to waste less money − yours−…
Campaign notes
The Left are sharpening their axes
The failure of reform advocacy in Australia
By placing so much faith in benign government, we are deceiving ourselves