Features Australia

Quest for glory blundered

9 July 2016 9:00 am

Napoleon’s judicial murder of the Duke of Enghien was summed up by either his Chief of Police, Joseph Fouche or…

Innovation and iftar

9 July 2016 9:00 am

The conventional wisdom surrounding Malcolm Turnbull’s ascension to Prime Minister was that his more moderate leanings would allow him to…

Business/Robbery etc

9 July 2016 9:00 am

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

2 July 2016 9:00 am

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?

2 July 2016 9:00 am

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

2 July 2016 9:00 am

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?

2 July 2016 9:00 am

The British people have not only shown us how to recover our country from the elites, Brexit has further reduced…

Detoxing Medicare

2 July 2016 9:00 am

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)

25 June 2016 4:00 am

This is the second time Malcolm Turnbull has led a national political campaign. The first one ended in tears. This…

Standing with the Yarts

25 June 2016 4:00 am

Recently, tweets featuring #istandwiththearts flooded the internet. It was meant to scan ‘I Stand with the Arts’, but I initially…

Business/Robbery etc

25 June 2016 4:00 am

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

25 June 2016 4:00 am

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’

25 June 2016 3:00 am

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

25 June 2016 3:00 am

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

18 June 2016 9:00 am

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

18 June 2016 9:00 am

California legislators are considering a bill that would make debate on climate change illegal. The Orwellian-sounding Climate Science Truth and…

Greedy Greens

18 June 2016 9:00 am

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

11 June 2016 9:00 am

If you want to know what someone utterly bereft of shame looks like, look no further than the lefitsh defenders…

Welcome to country

11 June 2016 8:00 am

Imagine if the Nova Peris ‘lived experience’ test was widely applied and allowed to determine who could and could not…

Peta, TV star

11 June 2016 8:00 am

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?

4 June 2016 9:00 am

Labor are a little too quick to accuse others of ‘racism’

Campaign Notes

4 June 2016 9:00 am

Liberals are dancing with the devil

Aux bien pensants

4 June 2016 9:00 am

This election should be about more than which of two spendthrift assassins is likely to waste less money − yours−…

Campaign notes

4 June 2016 9:00 am

The Left are sharpening their axes

The failure of reform advocacy in Australia

4 June 2016 9:00 am

By placing so much faith in benign government, we are deceiving ourselves