Features Australia
It’s time to stop funding ‘elite’ sports
Australia’s performance at the Commonwealth Games has exposed what a waste of taxpayers’ money it all is
Betraying Israel for the Muslim vote
Bob Carr and Labor have abandoned a critical ally
Dark star
Hugo Weaving is scarily good in Sydney Theatre Company’s innovative reworking of Macbeth
Aussie superheros
It’s time to tap into our rich comic-book heritage and make some movies, starting with The Southern Squadron
Ming was not a nationalist
Conservative revisionists and Liberal partisans can’t accept that Sir Robert Menzies was an empire man
So much for the claimthat Labor is reformist
Once again, Bill Shorten lets down the true believers
Hockey and the dole
For social workers, the age of entitlement survives
Stand up to a bully
If only European leaders were more like Tony Abbott
Magic moments
Peter Oborne’s masterly new book on cricket recalls a special Test rivalry between Australia and Pakistan
A legendary artist
Our own Robert Dickerson, now aged 90, will go down as one of the world’s leading painters
Not at our expense
Why should tax payers have subsidised the Soccer World Cup in Brazil?
Big smoke vs region
Go bush young man! Remote towns are more relaxed and comfortable than the inner cities
Magna Carta turns 800
Eight centuries of freedom is a big deal
The Oz turns 50
It works the sophisticates into a lather, but Chris Mitchell’s Australian is the only serious newspaper in the country
The art of political comebacks
When the critics gave Menzies the kiss of death, it amounted to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
How Kevin Rudd nearly destroyed Labor
With the release of the ALP’s 2013 election review, it’s safe for the nation’s educators to set the record straight
Be grateful this criminal left your lucky country
On the list of trusted Australians, ‘Rolfie’ would be several thousand rungs below Ned Kelly
Recognise what?
For our $10 million, we deserve a more coherent case for Constitutional change than motherhood statements
Just another witch hunt
Should we really ostracise the opera singer Tamar Iveri?
Our lone wolves
How to combat the new breed of Australian jihadists
Let’s learn from the mess-in-potamia
The hawks were wrong about every aspect of Iraq, so why on earth should we still listen to them?
Tony the tradie can fix it
How to sell the budget to the ordinary bloke
A revenue raiser
Remember when reform generated real political heat?
The copayment is counterproductive
A free-marketeer GP slams Tony Abbott’s plans
Dinner party anti-Semitism
Even otherwise intelligent and normal people will often reveal their hatred over a few glasses of wine
