Features Australia

The climate cult’s human shield

4 May 2019 9:00 am

Last Tuesday evening, I tweeted the following: ‘Can the Beeb arrange for Andrew Neil to interview this Greta Thunberg character?…

Shorten blundering to defeat?

4 May 2019 9:00 am

The electorate shows little sign of being interested in politicians offering bribes, wearing caps, eating, playing with children, horsing around…

The essential Duchamp

4 May 2019 9:00 am

‘The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and…

Truth, meet error

4 May 2019 9:00 am

Recently at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, new university president Lawrence Bacow was blocked from giving his speech on universities and…

How can Shorten still be in the lead?

27 April 2019 9:00 am

How is it that Labor, no longer the party of the worker but the voice of inner-city elites and millionaire…

The Curate’s NEG

27 April 2019 9:00 am

It’s been all the fun of the fair as a 10-day long weekend gave voters a chance to observe the…

Galileo wins court case

27 April 2019 9:00 am

‘Vindicated. The score is 17-nil, the judge’s findings were damning. It could not have gone better,’ Professor Peter Ridd explains…

Business/Robbery etc

27 April 2019 9:00 am

Tell him he’s dreamin’. There is no way Bill Shorten’s 50 per cent hike in capital gains tax will raise…

Do Labor intend to ‘recognise’ a terrorist state?

27 April 2019 9:00 am

The designation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a terrorist organisation would have major implications for Australia’s foreign policy and…

The dambuster

27 April 2019 9:00 am

Even after 52 years I can still vividly recall Dr Barnes Wallis, inventor of the ‘skipping’ bombs which breached the…

Barry did a naughty thing

27 April 2019 9:00 am

It is a truth that ought to be universally acknowledged that the one thing missing from modern comedy festivals is…

Our lady of Paris and our man Folau

27 April 2019 9:00 am

Is it too much to hope that in our multicultural society there might still be found space for the culture…

Rocket science

20 April 2019 9:00 am

The news has finally reached us over here in London. Australia is going to have an election. The choice will…

Compensating abuse

20 April 2019 9:00 am

Here’s a piece of news you won’t get from the ABC or the ex-Fairfax press. It concerns the gold-and-wool-rich provincial…

Whatever happened to the flapping butterfly?

20 April 2019 9:00 am

The confluence of mathematics and science provides us with proof and certainty. It is also beautiful: think of Einstein’s theory…

Whiffy-leaks

20 April 2019 9:00 am

If fish and visitors stink in three days, as Benjamin Franklin advised, it’s easy to see how Wikileaks founder Julian…

Aussie Maggie

20 April 2019 9:00 am

It is an irony and paradox that successful conservatism often requires radical solutions. So it was with Margaret Thatcher’s revolution…

A prayer for the West

20 April 2019 9:00 am

Symbolism matters. It’s why the Muslim call to prayer rang out across New Zealand after the Christchurch massacre, and why…

Smoking out the neo-coms

20 April 2019 9:00 am

Among the many considerable services Tony Abbott has rendered Australia, one was to persuade the late Paul Ramsay to endow…

Sleepwalking to oblivion

13 April 2019 9:00 am

‘Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If…

A Defence Force slowly dying

13 April 2019 9:00 am

The Australian Defence Force is shooting itself in the foot over political correctness. But venturing opinions on PC is reminiscent…

Why not ‘Welcome to Christianity’?

13 April 2019 9:00 am

Imagine the outcry by the inner city limousine Left and the free-trade, almond latte drinkers if the Victorian Labor government…

Let’s deplatform the deplatformers

13 April 2019 9:00 am

When controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson toured Australia and New Zealand in February, tickets sold out in days. In Brisbane,…

Six sins of Shorten

13 April 2019 9:00 am

The impending federal election will be a referendum on economic policy, the like of which Australia hasn’t seen since 1993.…

Business/Robbery etc

13 April 2019 9:00 am

The contribution to Australia’s cultural life by my old friend and long-standing colleague Peter Coleman demonstrated that to be an…