Features Australia
Annus wonderfulus
For much of last year, left wing media invoked ‘2016’ as a rod with which to chasten the insufficiently progressive.…
Playing with holy fire
In the nearly four years since he was elected, Pope Francis I has achieved the singular distinction of bringing the…
Attack of the Offendotrons
It’s impossible to ignore the story of Greig Tonkins, the Taronga Park zookeeper who punched a giant roo to save…
Obama’s Legacy
Mark Steyn, in After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, branded Barack Obama a ‘symptom rather than a problem’. Steyn compared…
A new breed of ‘historian’
In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves…
Aux bien pensants
Long before Trump & Brexit… President Trump’s landslide is just the beginning. Better than the sight of battalions of experts…
Dishlickers’ delight
‘The world has gone mad. Donald Trump is president of the United States and now Reverend Fred Nile is strolling…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s not just the money cost of Senator Hinch’s amateurish meddling with legislation like the Australian Building and Construction Commission,…
The humiliated intellectuals of the Left
The Booker Prize winning author Yann Martel wrote in The Life of Pi that reason was the fool’s gold of…
Aux bien pensants
Long before Trump & Brexit… President Trump’s landslide is just the beginning. Better than the sight of battalions of experts…
Dishlickers’ delight
‘The world has gone mad. Donald Trump is president of the United States and now Reverend Fred Nile is strolling…
Laughing at the devil
‘Prison did not touch me,’ declares Pussy Riot’s Maria ‘Masha’ Alyokhina, raising her eyebrows with a sardonic smirk. I am…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s not just the money cost of Senator Hinch’s amateurish meddling with legislation like the Australian Building and Construction Commission,…
Laughing at the devil
‘Prison did not touch me,’ declares Pussy Riot’s Maria ‘Masha’ Alyokhina, raising her eyebrows with a sardonic smirk. I am…
Crown princes and Russian spies
THIS is a confession of sorts. Since the rise of Trump, I’ve been sneering along with the best of them…
Post-truth, and other such falsehoods
In the weeks that followed first Brexit and then Donald Trump’s election to the US Presidency it seemed that many…
A thousand words
Humour is not a feature one normally associates with a National Press Club address. I was surprised and somewhat humbled…
Love and marriage
The Fairfax-reading, ABC-viewing middle classes are getting rattled. In Victoria, 2,400 extra police officers are to be employed to help…
A thousand words
Humour is not a feature one normally associates with a National Press Club address. I was surprised and somewhat humbled…
Post-truth, and other such falsehoods
In the weeks that followed first Brexit and then Donald Trump’s election to the US Presidency it seemed that many…
Love and marriage
The Fairfax-reading, ABC-viewing middle classes are getting rattled. In Victoria, 2,400 extra police officers are to be employed to help…
Crown princes and Russian spies
THIS is a confession of sorts. Since the rise of Trump, I’ve been sneering along with the best of them…
Coercive conformity
Is there any joint lesson to be learned from so-called Brexit and the unlikely-seeming elevation of Donald Trump to the…
Our grandads didn’t die for this
It is, perhaps, a poor reflection of our times when a historian feels compelled to remind others that the Nazis…
Playing the identity card
‘And the union people crawled away…’- Billy Joel, Allentown ‘Funny that Billy just endorsed Hillary. He must have forgotten…
