Features Australia
Revenge of the Remoaners
If the UK Supreme Court’s decision on the prorogation or ending of the current session of Parliament were handed in…
Persian palimpsest
It was 1966. We were two young Australians, fresh out of Melbourne University. We decided to drive from India to…
Fabulous and forgotten
Frederick Kelly was a celebrated Australian sportsman who won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at the Henley Regatta three times and…
The story of Mrs O
Of the 27 original candidates who entered the race for Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 US presidential election, only…
Academies or madrassas
Whether our universities have ever lived up to their lofty ideals is difficult to say. What is clear is that…
Revolt of the elites
It was a big week for the noisy Australians. Some 300,000 downed pens and nobly put aside the tedium of…
Doomed revolutions
Some revolutions such as the American War of Independence, succeed and result in the birth of great nations. Some, such…
Hit and run journalism
Having failed to reverse the 2016 election through impeachment or declaration of mental impairment, the American mainstream media are determined…
Deserter dads
Nearly everyone in New Zealand has been made to feel they could play a part in the forthcoming Royal Commission…
Worse than 18C
The federal government’s draft religious discrimination bill highlights – no doubt unconsciously – some of the limitations on freedom of…
Iran’s hostage chess
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad,’ wrote Mark…
Campus of dunces
Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind (1987) showed higher education failing democracy and impoverishing students. Forty years later,…
Our unique opportunity
Australia, more than any other, is a child of the two great English-speaking nations. They have for two centuries successively…
Deal or no deal
No longer can Brexit be considered inevitable: British democracy is on life support, and there are many who want to…
Business/Robbery etc
‘It was just a good title for a book’, Graham Richardson protested last week, after a federal Labor front-bencher blamed…
Not the Right appointment
From President Eisenhower’s time in office to the end of President Obama’s, there were 27 vacancies on the Supreme Court…
Iran’s dual threat
The US and Australia will soon raise a glass to a ‘common vision for global peace, security and prosperity.’ On…
Q&A with Savage
On my visits to Australia I have felt a strong sense of mystery and even apprehension. How is it that…
Anglosphere’s finest hour
These are extraordinary days for the Anglosphere. As China and the EU show their contempt for ordinary people, the values…
Prince Andrew’s trial by media
In this year’s Star Chamber trial by media, Prince Andrew has been found guilty with instructions to with- draw from…
Asylum accessories
Alan Jones is wrong. The case of the Sri Lankan family whose deportation has been stalled illustrates what people smugglers…
ABC of Pauline’s revenge
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has two Bills at hand to clobber the anti-conservative ABC. The first would force it to…
Below the belt —and road
In the Land of Oz, when Labor apparatchiks follow the yellow brick road to the end of the rainbow —…
Celebrity climate sting
I’m a mediocre guitar player. I’ve also said 12 lines in a one-act play. Neither of these activities gave me…
Where’s our Greta?
Why is Australia being left behind on climate change? I don’t mean left behind in the sense of not doing…
