Gough Whitlam demonised the Vietnamese boat people. We should be welcoming them to our shores.

The rise of the Greens threatens to take federal politics back to the turn of the century. The last century.

The 1967 referendum is fifty years old. And it achieved, er, what precisely?

The clues to a Shorten prime ministership are there for all to see

Tony Abbott’s change of budgetary and political tack has re-invigorated his loyal supporters

Political cowardice and people on the move

Terrified of irrelevance, Christian churches are leaping onto a godless bandwagon

The ‘Lomborg affair’ shows the intellectual bankruptcy of contemporary Australian academia

Politicians everywhere have an uncanny knack of dividing, not uniting, their people

A binding vote on gay marriage looms as the next big Labor party split

They survived the departure of Bob Brown. But will anybody care that Christine Milne has gone?

Our moral decline should not include empathy for child molesters

Tony Abbott will be in trouble if he doesn’t heed the lessons of two imminent elections where Conservatives are floundering

Islamist terrorists prey on the vulnerabilities of the adolescent mind and the clash of cultures