Features Australia
Black and white clouds over New Zealand
The Christchurch mosque massacres of March 15 brought out the best and the worst in New Zealanders. The best was…
Vale Peter Coleman
William Peter Coleman (15 December 1928 – 31 March 2019) was that increasingly rare creature in contemporary Australia, a great…
Useful idiots at the ABC
ABC’s Four Corners remains proud of Sarah Ferguson’s three-part nothingburger last June about President Trump’s Russia collusion – its ‘story…
Sneak peek
When Rone first conceived of Empire – his vast sensory installation in an abandoned Dandenong Ranges mansion – he never…
Electric fantasies
A looming Australian federal election and the increasingly bitter carbon wars have resulted in a series of campaign promises that…
Gladys throws the Libs a lifeline
The return of the Berejiklian government demonstrates that good governments can win a third term, despite self-inflicted wounds. That will…
Business/Robbery etc
It was utter bunkum; but typical self-delusion by those ideological crusaders determined to do whatever it takes ‘to save the…
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Vale Edmund Capon
It is a chilly December evening in London, and on the floor of this hospital the windows are an opaque…
The propaganda is settled
Aussie school children are getting another barrage of third-party climate catastrophism, only a fortnight since the kids’ climate strike. March…
Christchurch – and saying goodbye to so much
Our saddest times are when those we love leave us. When there is not even time to say goodbye, the…
Selling out the voters
The famous American author Mark Twain is rumoured to have once said ‘If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let…
Aux bien pensants
No wonder so many politicians live in mortal terror of being interviewed by Alan Jones. No one prepares more thoroughly,…
Boys and the biff
Readers might be surprised to learn that Dr Peter Miller and his team of eager researchers at Deakin University are…
The Left’s bad joke
After the atrocity comes the inevitable blame game. Hardly waiting to draw breath, Wajahat Ali leapt into print in the…
Whither withering democracy?
In June 1995 the New Yorker magazine published a long article by the distinguished American journalist Michael Kelly examining dissatisfaction…
Silencing Milo
The decision by the Federal Government Minister for Immigration to deny provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos a visa to enter Australia is…
Why we need the Muslim Reform Movement
My visit to Australia from the US was planned over a year ago for this week. In the immediate wake…
Media freedom long overdue
‘The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing…
Business/Robbery etc
Is it $8.5 million of BHP’s shareholders’ money wasted on a directors’ virtue-signalling frolic to further their climate change credentials…
In praise of Justice Fagan
One sombre fact of life in contemporary Australia is the steady flow of terrorism prosecutions in which individuals have been…
Germany’s schizoid approach to Israel
One would have thought that, for certain historical reasons, Germany today would show extra-sensitivity in avoiding appearances of anti-Semitism. However,…
My pencil knows best
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial ‘Who’s Afraid of Socialism?’ laid out the case that much of the US Democratic…
Super Justice Warriors
Captain Marvel, released to cinemas this month, is more than just another addition to the already saturated superhero film market.…
Judge dread
Let me talk about an example of an undemocratic trend from my home state of Queensland. A fortnight ago the…
Newspeak, translated
‘There’s not a good enough reason for Adelaide to be there,’ quipped ALP grandee Graham Richardson on Sky TV, inadvertently…
