Features Australia
Lies and the death of democracy
Words matter, concepts matter. Without a shared understanding of language we’d live in a world of chaos. Truth, in other…
Indigenous voice?
It’s Naidoc Week in Australia, and this year’s theme is: ‘Voice. Treaty. Truth. Let’s work together.’ As the locals are…
Morality managers
Financially rewarded beyond the wildest dreams of rank-and-file Australians, some of the nation’s managerial elites are labouring under a delusion.…
Ghostbusters
Last week the miserable ghost of Malcolm Turnbull put in an apparition at the Friends of Wolper Jewish Hospital. Presumably…
Lefty lawyers, Part 2
Last week I noted that the lawyers of today, as a class, are a lot more left-leaning and politically correct…
Abolish the arts degree (and start again)
In addition to my full-time job as a commercial journalist, I sometimes teach English to high school students, usually in…
Media onslaught against Trump backfires
What? ABCTV, without sneering, covered Trump at the Osaka G20 last week and with Kim Jong-un the other day. So…
Our universities are dying
Examples of how universities have been captured by politically correct groupthink and cultural left ideology abound. Bettina Arndt being denied…
Turnbull, the G-G, Porter and Dutton
Scott Morrison’s election win saved Australia from many perils: from much higher and even more wasteful government spending; much higher…
The noose around Australian businesses
In Greenwashed: the strange triumph of eco-Toryism, (The Spectator Australia, 15 June), Ross Clark describes how Conservative party leadership contenders…
Conscience rules, OK?
Two problems with Scott Morrison’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill. First, what does it mean for those who make a stand…
Business/Robbery etc
Now that Adani’s Carmichael mine in remote central Queensland is, after nine tempestuous years, under way since at last getting…
Another Sampson blinded in Gaza
Hooray for Pallywood, or rather Gazallywood, that wonderful melange of misleading footage, falsehoods, fakeries and frauds that makes up so…
Privilege points to prejudice
The other day I checked my points balance. I felt ashamed by how high it was, and wondered what I…
Go fund yourself!
In 2009, on ABC’s Q&A, host Tony Jones asked host of Channel Ten’s The Project and practising Muslim Waleed Aly…
Clairvoyant on fuel security?
What is it about the words ‘fuel security’ that this government doesn’t understand? The first duty of any government is…
Lawyers and law schools
Among a certain, shall we say more mature, segment of the population there is a lingering sense that lawyers as…
Legislating free speech
What is happening to Israel Folau should not happen in a free society. GoFundMe’s hypocritical decision to shut down a…
The Thuringian flagellants and the green gluers
Those young men and women who have taken to gluing themselves to walls and roads in order to save the…
Demography is destiny
When Sky News asked Australian Labor MP Anne Aly why she opposed the Coalition’s tax cut plan, she cited ‘the…
All aboard the anti-Catholic bandwagon
Driven by spite and ideology masquerading as a concern for ‘justice’, the anti-Catholic bandwagon rumbles on, unimpeded by the fall-off…
China’s organ grinder
Political violence is rare in Australia but a senior partner at a Sydney accounting firm gave a new ‘twist’ to…
Fighting back in the gender wars
Israel Folau is right to condemn gender fluidity and the push to get children and adolescents to transition. Folau also…
Business/Robbery etc
A real political crisis? Or just some local manifestations of the West’s worldwide collapse of rusted-on party loyalty that is…
Not your grandfather’s nuclear power
When Chief Scientist Alan Finkel’s electricity market review passed through New York a couple of years ago, the team went…
