Features Australia
Pauline appeals! Elites in shock!
The reaction to Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech was a reminder that like Disraeli’s England, Australia is now two nations ,…
Over-crowded upper house
Watching the circus that was the Republican convention to endorse Donald Trump’s candidacy was enough to make Australian voters such…
Journos or Groupies?
Sam Dastyari’s ‘Chinese indiscretion’ hit the press on Tuesday of the first week of parliament. It was immediately followed by…
Power to the plebiscite
Malcolm Turnbull’s shilly-shallying before deciding to go ahead with the gay ‘marriage’ plebiscite is what we have come to expect…
We’re all gamblers now
We are a nation of gamblers. We wager more per capita than any other country on earth. But it is…
Aux bien pensants
Treachery at the heart of our politics Australians have been told over and over that Senator Dastyari has broken no…
Business/Robbery etc
No wonder savers are getting stroppy. The Reserve Bank keeps cutting interest rates (and savers’ incomes) in line with the…
Elephant in the room
The tsunami that has been approaching Australia has finally come ashore and it now wobbles and stumbles through our schools,…
Hypocrisy and free speech in sports
For those of you who don’t follow US sports, let me tell you that there is currently a big brouhaha…
The kids are alright
At sixteen, almost half of my classmates from the year before had already left school and were either working or…
I don’t give a Gonski and neither should you
Ask anyone from Malcolm Turnbull down to the fedora-wearing Socialist leafleting on the corner of Flinders Street Station and odds…
Taking offence
It was Victor Hugo who wrote that ‘an invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be…
Time to sign up for free speech
The sorry state of free speech in this country appears to concern a lot of people in this country. The…
Fall of a political pin-up
After NSW Premier Mike Baird, with his Greens and neo-Marxist allies rammed through a ban on greyhound racing, ‘Kim Il…
Mental mollycoddling
It was recently exposed in News Limited newspapers that as many as one in three students in some elite high…
Aussie exceptionalism
It would have once been uncontroversial to suggest nations have characteristics that not only distinguish them from other countries, but…
We’re all Huguenots now
I’m not one of those Christians who go in for high days and holy days. Truth be told, I find…
Two bad ideas
Two absurd propositions are currently gaining unwarranted attention: ‘recognising’ aborigines in the Constitution and a recycled idea from the 1970s…
Anti-Semitism of the progressive churches
One of the nastiest perversions of Christianity in the world today – the attempted demonisation and isolation of Israel –has…
Vagabondism and harlotry
That we are to have yet another Royal Commission into Aboriginal Affairs is good news for some. It is good…
The morality of mandatory detention
Last week on the ABC programme, the Drum, I confronted my unwilling conscience. The topic was the Manus Island immigration…
Business/Robbery etc
There’ll always be a Menzies while there’s a BHP For they have paid their dividends since 1883. There’ll always be…
Even Gillard got her Census right
In 14AD, the Roman Emperor Tiberius, an unlovable man who succeeded the far superior Augustus, successfully managed a census of…
For Scott’s Eyes Only
Three cheers for the government for saving us from the Yellow Investment Peril. If it weren’t for Treasurer Scott Morrison,…
Libs’ bad joke
The Liberal factional powerbroker-lobbyists disaster in NSW now belongs to Malcolm Turnbull. Failure to prevent the exercise of lobbyist power…
