Features Australia

One of the immortals

2 January 2016 9:00 am

I feel I have lost part of myself with the death of Harry Butler at the age of 85. Though…

Cat on a hot petal roof

2 January 2016 9:00 am

Architect Amanda Levete brings a feline elegance to Melbourne’s MPavilion

Shorten’s (and everyone else’s) year ahead

2 January 2016 9:00 am

My predictions for 2016

The joy of hate-reading

12 December 2015 9:00 am

A delicious look at the tastiest morsels of the year

Don’t cry for me, Australia

12 December 2015 9:00 am

Our politicians are taking us down the path to Argentina

Bruce Beresford directs Sedale Threatt in the re-make of Roots

Return to Roots

12 December 2015 9:00 am

The controversial African-American ancestral tale is being retold... partly by me

Flogging parsons

12 December 2015 9:00 am

Much like the first convicts, Australians today cower before the great moralisers of the day

Witches brew

12 December 2015 9:00 am

Two of Australia’s most powerful women hailed from witch towns. Cue the creepy music

Barbeque stoppers

12 December 2015 9:00 am

So here’s a question for the history buffs – name the last Australian Knight. The Queen presented the Award at…

Triggs-er warning

5 December 2015 9:00 am

The president of the Human Rights Commission must live in a moral galaxy far, far away

Muslim blackmail

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Too many within the Islamic community, wittingly or otherwise, promote the jihadist mindset

Going coal turkey

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Wealthy greenies demanding the third world go without coal is immoral and hypocritical

An interview with Peter Hitchens

5 December 2015 9:00 am

There is a certain contradiction to Peter Hitchens: on the one hand, he’s an author and journalist of immense energy…

The camp of the saints (part II)

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Forty years ago, the French author, Jean Raspail, wrote a confronting novel about a third world invasion of Europe. His…

The Liberals’ Rudd

5 December 2015 9:00 am

The Turnbull coup has finished off one Liberal leader and put paid to two others

French quarrels

28 November 2015 9:00 am

Now everybody is arguing about Islamism

Clash of uncivilisations

28 November 2015 9:00 am

To defeat Islamic fascism, the nations of the enlightenment need to start believing in themselves

Don’t risk bringing in terrorists (again)

28 November 2015 9:00 am

The Turnbull coup is impacting upon our national security

United we fall

21 November 2015 9:00 am

In the wake of Paris, the United Nation’s corrupt moralising is even more disgusting than normal

Conservatives, maintain your rage

21 November 2015 9:00 am

Should Australian conservative Liberals simply lie back and think of Wentworth?

The leaking of Kerr’s resignation

21 November 2015 9:00 am

Hold the front page - the GG’s just resigned

Shanghai’s unwitting role as saviour

21 November 2015 9:00 am

The legendary ‘Paris of the East’ became the ‘last chance saloon’ for Jews fleeing the Holocaust, many of whom ended up in Australia

Motherhood, apple pie and reform

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Changes are not necessarily genuine reform

Have republicans no shame?

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Notes on Turnbull’s treachery and Whitlam being ‘wronged’

Climate crimes

14 November 2015 9:00 am

The Pope, the Paris conference and anti-coal actvists appear happy to condemn the third world to energy poverty