Features Australia

What if it were Auxit?

2 February 2019 9:00 am

Imagine if after the 1999 referendum when a majority of Australians voted against a republic the government decided that it…

Fake New Zealand

2 February 2019 9:00 am

That sleeping giant, the public, is waking up this side of the Tasman, but late to redress the reality that…

Five go mad for Brexit

2 February 2019 9:00 am

Every scorching Australian summer I like to dust off my Enid Blyton books and return to the country lanes, tumble-down…

Hat(e) crime

2 February 2019 9:00 am

The Covington affair and the new dark age of Hate Media

Rahaf’s flight

2 February 2019 9:00 am

Rahaf Al-Qunun’s predicament became a cause célèbre in the West. Her plight, which is sadly familiar to many Muslim women,…

An endless coup

2 February 2019 9:00 am

Do those campaigning against our national day really think that Australia, as we know it, would be here without the…

Business/Robbery etc

2 February 2019 9:00 am

Business generally finds nothing unusual or disturbing about otherwise inconsequential Liberal politicians achieving their once-only 15 minutes of notoriety (let’s…

Lefty francophiles

26 January 2019 9:00 am

What is it about left-leaning elites (so the significant preponderance of today’s ‘elite’ class) and France? It’s hard not to…

Clive spends big on Clive

26 January 2019 9:00 am

Is it possible to buy your way into the federal parliament? It seems that we are about to find out…

The Left’s heart of darkness

26 January 2019 9:00 am

When detailing the origins of the culture wars the British conservative politician Michael Gove refers to the establishment of the…

The problem with ‘right of return’

26 January 2019 9:00 am

The United Nations Global Compact on Migration has brought issues relating to migrants and refugees to the fore for many…

Everything is… just fine

26 January 2019 9:00 am

‘Britain in worst crisis since WWII,’ declared the Australian’s front page last Thursday. ‘Britain’s state of dismay,’ professed the Age’s…

Raise a glass to the British

26 January 2019 9:00 am

Despite years of federal civics education courses, a survey taken some years ago revealed that  the vast majority of school…

Here’s the recipe for success

19 January 2019 9:00 am

After a family Christmas in Canada my wife and I are now in London for half a year. It’s been…

Western Civ: it’s not just for white people anymore

19 January 2019 9:00 am

When the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation generously offered to fund ‘Western Civ’ courses at Australian universities, critics at the…

Business/Robbery etc

19 January 2019 9:00 am

The omens for Australia point to a lousy 2019 – politically, economically, commercially and internationally. Fear that Coalition election defeats…

What I learned at the hand of Brother Joseph

19 January 2019 9:00 am

If anybody used the term ‘religious freedom’ during my childhood, I would have assumed it referred to the times at…

Alice in Leftist-land

19 January 2019 9:00 am

‘There’s no use trying,’ says Alice to the Queen in Through the Looking-Glass, ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ No? Clearly…

Aux bien pensants

19 January 2019 9:00 am

The New York Times reports the truly shocking news that Australia punches below its weight. The NYT’s source, Lowy Institute…

Shame, shame, shame on New Zealand

12 January 2019 9:00 am

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel once famously wrote ‘what hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but…

One-way hate speech

12 January 2019 9:00 am

Britain is allowing political correctness, or fear of political incorrectness, increasingly to destroy its civil liberties and silence freedom of…

Foreign aid, feminist propaganda

12 January 2019 9:00 am

‘Where are the women business leaders in Vietnam?’. It sounds like a question at a pub trivia night. The answer…

Live and don’t die

5 January 2019 9:00 am

Nakhane was twenty-years old when, in the eyes of his community, he became a man. It was aged 20 that…

Activists heeding the Voice

5 January 2019 9:00 am

The Land Rights campaign that took hold in the 1950s has never been about improving the lot of Aborigines but…

The deeper consternation of the Asia Bibi scandal

5 January 2019 9:00 am

By now you are probably familiar with Asia Bibi. Accused of blasphemy while working in the fields near her home…