Features Australia
NSW botches abortion
‘The sound of men arguing over our personal reproductive health choices hurts my ears and it offends my very core,’…
Daughter slaughter
Exactly twenty-five years ago, August 1994, Australia’s leading practitioner of late-term abortion gave a lecture at Monash University on ‘Abortion…
The Year My Woke Broke
When Prince Harry revealed, in the issue of Vogue his wife guest-edited, that they would only have two children ‘to…
Doing the Makarrata
So here we go again. What I will call ‘Atsic mark II’ is currently getting pollies, journos and lawyers in…
The G-G should resign
Australia’s constitutional system cannot function properly with a Governor-General inserting himself into contemporary political debate. If the current Governor-General wishes…
Australia’s content laws are just so… European
Australians love Netflix. If statistics are to be believed, roughly half of all Australians have a Netflix subscriber in their…
2018 Thawley Essay prize winner
The great Groucho Marx once joked that he didn’t want to belong to any club that would have him as…
A culture of death imposed by deceit
The adoption of an abortion law so extreme it sanctions the killing of any innocent who dares survive has been…
When the music stops
Slowly, Australians are awakening from their deep 28 years slumber. For nearly three decades, they have slept secure in the…
Business/Robbery etc
ScoMo, please steer clear of anything to do with superannuation. Your unfortunate experience when Treasurer should have shown you that…
Political correctness eats at the soul of the West
I first wrote about political correctness in 1993 after buying a copy of The Official Politically Correct Dictionary & Handbook…
Boris’s second D-Day
The chances of the UK freeing itself from EU control improved no end last week. In his first statement to…
End of the world, again
Is it just me, or does the Apocalypse seem to roll around earlier and earlier each year? We’re supposed to…
Quigley has a duty to quibble
Community safety requires competent law-making by parliament, robust law enforcement by government and wise decision-making from the judiciary. If one…
Eat the chefs
The offenderati have been baying for blood ever since it was revealed that MasterChef Australia judge George Calombaris had been…
Certify the political class?
‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’ The truth of this ancient proverb has been demonstrated by the…
Through thick and spin
Once upon a time, Britain sent Australia its excess convicts. These days we get Tony Blair’s old spin doctors, a…
Marxism’s rotten fruit
In his brilliant Intellectuals – From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, Paul Johnson highlights the hypocrisy of what…
Four ponies of the apocalypse
The open secret of Donald Trump’s political success is that he is always in the news. He seems to live…
Distracting from real reform
Constitutional ‘recognition’ of the indigenous people is but the latest in a series of silver bullets proposed by the elites…
Immigration and the demographic brioche
The Conversation is an online journal publishing commentary from Australian academics about current issues. It claims to present articles with…
An upside to invasion?
Nathan Moran, of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council in Sydney, kicked off Naidoc week by criticising the city’s publicly-funded…
Einstein, Marx and the scourge of suicide
Prime Minister Morrison’s commitment to addressing the escalating rate of suicide is commendable and much needed. Given 3,128 Australians committed…
Cancel culture
Everyone who hasn’t spent the last six months under a rock knows about Israel Folau and how he’s raised northwards…
Business/Robbery etc
It really is the greatest moral challenge of our time – and it’s not climate change. It is nationality versus…