Features Australia
Minding the gap
Once again the start of the federal parliamentary year has been marked by what has become an annual ritual. The…
What is the point of Cory Bernardi?
Let me be honest. I don’t really see the point of Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives (‘AC’) party as presently configured.…
Paying for steel jobs
Indian billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is now in the same category as American entrepreneur Elon Musk in that any absurd idea…
Aux bien pensants
Proscribe parallelism not promiscuity By proscribing sexual relations with ministerial staff and through his public moral condemnation of Nationals leader…
Darwin’s puppets
When I was young, like many teenagers, I considered science dull. At a Passover dinner one year, I declared this…
When will they ever learn?
One January morning in 1800, a mysterious being emerged from the woods near Aveyron in France. The size of a…
Is time running out for Western civilisation?
‘What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms yet, but I think I can recognise…
Eyeballing DFAT
The problem with our foreign affairs bureaucracy isn’t just the consistent political correctness and suspicion of the Coalition. Much time…
Harvey Weinstein Syndrome
As with most popular movements, what starts from good intentions frequently spirals out of control – or beyond what its…
Autocues for the clueless
Was anyone really surprised when the factional warlords and powerbrokers in the key NSW division of the Liberal party so…
Burdens of proof and blatant bias
The non-lawyer readers of this fine publication may not be aware of a key premise (really it is a trade-off…
Abusing the Holocaust
This year’s commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, was at once illuminated…
Eyeballing DFAT
In republican Canberra, admiration for British tradition is thin. But in one respect it’s alive and well. Our career mandarins…
Down the rabbit hole into Trump’s America
A curious discovery at this year’s Australian Open tennis showed how America’s President Trump trauma is filtering into the most…
Business/Robbery etc
Small businesses and individuals income-earners beware! Now that Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan’s successful five-year multi-billion dollar campaign against tax dodging…
We must not go down the Corbyn path
Perhaps because of its outrageous early ‘70s sexism, one of Britain’s most important ural films, The Rise and Rise of…
Mr President, look beyond the swamp
Not since Ronald Reagan has the reaction to a State of the Union address been so optimistic, anticipating the return…
Thatcher’s lefty
Chris Patten claimed many of the glittering prizes in British politics and society: cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher and John…
The feminist two-step
Feminism is in crisis. It’s in a crisis of its own making because it’s been an echo chamber for so…
Balhatchet job
Just when you think the cowardice of those highly-placed in the West (with the exceptions of Trump and Netanyahu) can…
OK, I’m a conservative comedian
Whenever I meet a fellow conservative—at the Opera, or at the Latin Mass, or at the hush hush child-sacrificing soirées…
Business/Robbery etc
Now that Sam Dastyari is at last about to give up his $200,000 a year Senate salary for Kristina Keneally’s…
Crossing the Jordan
The ABC, for all its tax-voracious ‘local content’, loves showing British programmes – which is just as well because with…
Losing the battle for Britain
Q: What’s the connection between jazz great Thelonious Monk and a dachshund called Charlie Barker? A: A cartoonist named Michael…
Border wars
At the end of last year the European Union delivered an ultimatum to the Polish government. It gave the administration…