Features Australia
Closing young minds
The ‘Lomborg affair’ shows the intellectual bankruptcy of contemporary Australian academia
The great divide
Politicians everywhere have an uncanny knack of dividing, not uniting, their people
Tanya Pliber-split
A binding vote on gay marriage looms as the next big Labor party split
The ever-Greens
They survived the departure of Bob Brown. But will anybody care that Christine Milne has gone?
Sympathy for the devil
Our moral decline should not include empathy for child molesters
May day! May day!
Tony Abbott will be in trouble if he doesn’t heed the lessons of two imminent elections where Conservatives are floundering
Rebels with a jihadist cause
Islamist terrorists prey on the vulnerabilities of the adolescent mind and the clash of cultures
Star Chamber Wars
Margaret Cunneen SC has fought a lonely battle against dark forces within our criminal justice system
BDS – the cool new term for anti-Semitism
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement is a toxic monstrosity
Choosing to remember them
The desire to preserve the Anzac tradition comes from below, not from above
Total recall
In cases like that of Billy Gordon, give the voters the final say
The spirit of cricket
Richie Benaud was master of all trades, jack of none
GSTea Party
The current system of financing the states should be thrown overboard
Bottom drawer
Professor Anne Twomey (‘Royal activism in the spider web of secrecy’, 4 April) argues that Prince Charles’s use of his…
Brown study
You will be distressed to hear that I have recently been in the hands of the doctors. However, there is…
Hounds or poodles?
On the ongoing Speccie debate - when should conservative commentators attack Abbott (if at all?)
The silence of evil
Hardened cockpit doors and ‘depression’ are more comforting to our modern minds
Commander Bill
What does Shorten’s submarines policy say about his grasp of the potential future threats facing our country?
Getting the misery right
The death-circus surrounding the Bali executions has faint echoes of a famous musical
Our Constitution and the Senate
The system is broken
Roll over Beethoven
Why does Gen Y have so little interest in classical music?
Royal activism in the spider web of secrecy
What are the implications for Australians of having a letter-writing, activist, trainee monarch?
Poor winners
There is something ugly about Australian cricket’s angry young men
The totalitarianism of marriage equality
People should be allowed to freely express their opposition to gay and lesbian marriage
Memories of an Eminent Person
The complex personality of Malcolm Fraser reverberates through his equally complex legacy
