Features Australia
Big smoke vs region
Go bush young man! Remote towns are more relaxed and comfortable than the inner cities
Magna Carta turns 800
Eight centuries of freedom is a big deal
The Oz turns 50
It works the sophisticates into a lather, but Chris Mitchell’s Australian is the only serious newspaper in the country
The art of political comebacks
When the critics gave Menzies the kiss of death, it amounted to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
How Kevin Rudd nearly destroyed Labor
With the release of the ALP’s 2013 election review, it’s safe for the nation’s educators to set the record straight
Be grateful this criminal left your lucky country
On the list of trusted Australians, ‘Rolfie’ would be several thousand rungs below Ned Kelly
Recognise what?
For our $10 million, we deserve a more coherent case for Constitutional change than motherhood statements
Just another witch hunt
Should we really ostracise the opera singer Tamar Iveri?
Our lone wolves
How to combat the new breed of Australian jihadists
Let’s learn from the mess-in-potamia
The hawks were wrong about every aspect of Iraq, so why on earth should we still listen to them?
Tony the tradie can fix it
How to sell the budget to the ordinary bloke
A revenue raiser
Remember when reform generated real political heat?
The copayment is counterproductive
A free-marketeer GP slams Tony Abbott’s plans
Dinner party anti-Semitism
Even otherwise intelligent and normal people will often reveal their hatred over a few glasses of wine
One of us
Malcolm Turnbull espouses classic big-L Liberal values
Grateful dead
Ibsen would turn in his grave at this production of Ghosts
Little Scotlanders
If Scotland votes for independence on 18 September, it will be the end of Great Britain. And thanks to Pommie cynicism, selfishness and comic incompetence, it could happen
Turnbull lives on
However much conservatives detest him, the former Liberal leader remains a formidable contender for prime minister
Not in Howard’s image
The PM’s tax changes mark a betrayal of his mentor’s legacy
Campus riff-raff
Student radicals are hurting the cause (again)
Europe needs a Tony Abbott
What Australia can learn from the EU, and vice-versa
The Farage touch
If only Tony Abbott were more like the Ukip leader
We’re not the real culprits
Memo, human rights advocates: stop picking on us
John Stuart Hendy
How I found out John Stuart Mill’s liberalism is in my DNA
An unmistakable glow of greatness
Drop everything and marvel at Night on Bald Mountain