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Leadership drought
Water is the very essence of life. As Benjamin Franklin said, its only when the well’s dry that we know…
‘Righto, what’s his name then?’
As he winds down his five-year tenure as an Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane is redoubling the political divisiveness…
Having a list
For the past week I’ve been in my native Canada, aka the epicentre of TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome. In…
Three little words that mean ‘shut up!’
Racist’, ‘sexist’ and ‘phobia’, the last one with various prefixes, are the lexical building blocks of leftist discourse. Three little…
Body parts
Walking around Patricia Piccinini’s Melbourne studio, we could be on a tour at the Natural History Museum. ‘And here we…
OMG! Now the Jews want Israel to be Jewish!
The Information for prospective Australians that I had to master before I became a citizen declared ‘Australia is a secular…
Last chance for the Liberals
If the Liberals go to the next election with Turnbull as leader, they’ll be handing over the government to a…
Anti-‘Zionism’, or just plain old…?
Anti-‘Zionism’ seems to be bustin’ out all over. The Presbyterian Church USA, has become one of the more noisome sinks…
Letter from Munich
As a permanent reminder of the fragility of democracy when put under the combined pressure of economic crisis and populist…
Polishing Maggie’s legacy
Everywhere you look, from the free market to intelligence agencies, core democratic institutions are under attack – be it from…
Peterson’s sin
Last week I wanted to move to a hut in the wilderness, as far away from people as possible. The…
If the Libs don’t represent the right, someone else will
Among political insiders, I detect some relief that the two-party-preferred Newspoll gap between the Turnbull government and the Shorten opposition…
Keep on tweeting, Mr President
Mention One Nation voters in elite circles, and they’ll be dismissed as backward, unsophisticated and easily misled. But when asked…
Where have all the engineers gone?
When the Chifley Government, in 1948, decided to implement a scheme to harness the waters of the Snowy Mountains and…
A golden century
Lord Carrington, who died last week in his hundredth year, witnessed and shaped much of the international politics of the…
Dancing to terror’s tune
If when you woke on the morning of Sunday 15 July, you made the error of watching the ABC television…
The Treaty of Spring Street
History in the old sense of events and names isn’t much taught in our schools any more, such history as…
The bully boys and girls have gone too far
On both sides of the Tasman, too many of our MPs haven’t listened to the brilliant black American academic, Thomas…
Global brand Julia
‘Trailing clouds of glory’ is so apt for Julia Gillard AC’s post-prime ministerial career. This month the apolitical.co blog for…
Paradiski lost
Once again, Western civilisation is under mortal threat. This time it comes from a deepening schism between the rank-and-file and…
An inconvenient truth about child abuse
In debates about child abuse and neglect, truth normally becomes the first casualty. ‘A quarter of Australian children had witnessed…
May day for Brexit
I confess to being incredibly naive. After the 23 June 2016 Brexit referendum when 1.7 million more Britons voted for…
Thinking versus doing
The Australian National University’s rejection of the Ramsay Centre’s Western Civilisation degree has ignited a debate about university education in…
Revolt against collectivism
If politics is the robust exchange of ideas, there are certainly times when one must look beyond personalities to see…
Black mass
That Dark Mofo, the Tasmanian festival dedicated to the dark arts, has courted controversy once again is no surprise. Just…
