Features Australia
Losing our perspective
As Christmastime rolls around again we should take special care not to cause offence when sending group emails and Tweets…
A beacon for human rights?
The royal decree granting Saudi women the right to drive astonished the Western world and geared up approval for the…
Provocateur-in-Chief
The sin of provocation, Turkish President Erdogan helpfully explained in January 2015, was when mischief-makers fomented ‘hatred and enmity’ in…
They legislated a lie
An appeal to my fellow conservatives: please stop congratulating that chap who has his boot on your neck. Even Tony…
Christmas notes
Public shaming I know Christmas is a time for families and togetherness but frankly, I’m concerned that flicking the switch…
Robin and Eric
Having been in a loving relationship for two months, Robin and Eric were hot to trot and tied the knot…
Ben Canaider
As readers may be aware, December began in sunny Melbourne with a deluge of biblical proportions – or so Melburnians…
The unacceptable cost of renewables
Parts of Europe may be tearing themselves apart politically over the vast costs of adopting renewable energy, but Australian voters…
Flash in the pan
Last week an unlikely event took place: something interesting happened at the Arias. The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards…
Bopping with Bippera
In 2012, as James Morrison was collecting his trumpet from the baggage carousel at Cairns airport, a fan approached to…
Red meds
In November’s Lancet, editor Dr Richard Horton has liberated his esteemed medical journal from the shackles of science by inviting…
Business/Robbery etc
We now know why so many listed public company directors are more concerned with social and environmental virtue-signalling than focussing…
Survival or expediency?
The federal parliamentary party is divided, disordered, dystopian. The Prime Minister’s leadership lacks clear purpose and vision. Budget repair isn’t…
Turkeys, Thanksgiving and fake news
A bolt of schadenfreude hit many US conservatives inside the beltway last weekend – amid equal horror on the Left…
Yellow Peril, White Paper
The great foreign secretary, Lord Palmerston, saw no need to spell out British foreign policy in some vast official paper.…
Women suffer while doctors earn a fortune
Imagine a medical breakthrough which could save the government billions of health care dollars on unnecessary hysterectomies, useless tests and…
Yes, Gonski
The current political wisdom in education — or at least, the ‘wisdom’ of the Left — seems to be that…
Aux bien pensants
Dat’s a nice bottom With so many stories about sexual harassment, I should reveal my experience decades ago. Looking up…
Is nothing sacred?
The majority of Australians have now indicated their support for the principle of same-sex marriage and the Government has introduced…
For whom the bells toll
Now that we’ve had time to digest the marriage poll and Mr Turnbull has leapt into action with uncharacteristic decisiveness…
Whatever happened to socialism?
There has been some alarm expressed in Britain by worried editorial writers in journals like the Economist that Jeremy Corbyn…
Communicating hope
They’re so small you might not notice them. Sitting side by side on a white wall in Brisbane’s Gallery of…
Why the history wars matter
In a widely-publicised incident, two attention-seekers from the far-right Patriot Blue group harassed Senator Sam Dastyari in a Melbourne pub…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s a festering boil on the backside of progress, but no government will lance this offensive double of PM Keating’s…
Danby vs the ABC
You’d think that, with its $1 billion budget, the ABC could handle a little criticism. Not so, as Melbourne Ports…
