Columnists Australia

Simon Collins

3 March 2018 9:00 am

Whenever I can justify flying business class to the UK I go with Malaysian. I do this mainly because three…

Brown study

24 February 2018 9:00 am

Malcolm Turnbull is wrong about the effect of his proposed new morals code to stop ministers from philandering in the…

Brown Study

10 February 2018 9:00 am

My colleagues and I in the noble profession of investigative journalism have now spent 12 months poring over the goldmine…

Australian notes

10 February 2018 9:00 am

Turnbull’s 18C on steroids Rahm Emmanuel, one-time Chief of Staff in the Obama Administration, once said: ‘You never let a…

Brown study

3 February 2018 9:00 am

I have been thinking about the wash up from the same-sex marriage issue and what we can learn about the…

Latham’s law

3 February 2018 9:00 am

One of the strange reactions to the 17th Century Enlightenment was the concept of the Noble Savage. In the backlash…

Australian notes

3 February 2018 9:00 am

18C for Tarneen? Last Friday marked the 230th anniversary of a penal colony being founded on the shores of Sydney…

Latham’s law

27 January 2018 9:00 am

For the large amounts of national security spending and ‘expert advice’ available to our governments, they are still struggling with…

Australian notes

27 January 2018 9:00 am

Human Rights Commission hoisted with its own petard In the recent Australian Marriage Law Survey, Australians were asked the following…

Brown study

27 January 2018 9:00 am

You may be wondering what the connection is between the federal government’s innovation initiative and the developing sexual harassment scandal.…

Brown study

20 January 2018 9:00 am

The tentacles of The Spectator Australia Investigative Journalism Unit extend far beyond its heavily fortified premises in Canberra. For example,…

Australian notes

20 January 2018 9:00 am

Memo to Republicans: Australia is not a colony The fundamental difference between Australia as a ‘colony’ and every other colony…

Simon Collins

20 January 2018 9:00 am

The critically acclaimed Darkest Hour brings the number of films about Winston Churchill released in the last decade to six,…

Brown study

13 January 2018 9:00 am

Frankly, I have been shocked by the appalling revelations of sexual harassment that have come out in the last few…

Simon Collins

6 January 2018 9:00 am

Thanks to the announcement of the engagement of two foreign celebrities 2017 ended on a cheery note for many Australians.…

Brown Christmas

16 December 2017 9:00 am

This year has certainly seen some milestones. First, there was the fall of Robert Mugabe. Here, I must make a…

Australian notes

16 December 2017 9:00 am

Watching the feral soap-dodgers   Any other celebrity would be dozing in the VIP lounge, but I write from Sydney…

Australian notes

9 December 2017 9:00 am

Compare and contrast So it’s coming up to a year since one Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president…

Australian notes

2 December 2017 9:00 am

The Textorising of the right Let me make a confession, one that should you utter it out loud would mark…

Brown study

2 December 2017 9:00 am

There is a fascinating force at work in Australian politics. Have you noticed how Fairfax, the ALP-Green axis, the ABC…

Simon Collins

25 November 2017 9:00 am

While Tinseltown gets on with outing the sex pests in its senior ranks it’s too soon to say if it…

Australian notes

18 November 2017 9:00 am

The Bennelong bedwetter Some say that this innovative and agile Team Turnbull government continues to go from strength to strength.…

Consider this…

11 November 2017 9:00 am

Western Civilisation Of late, Western Civilisation has been copping a lot of flack. It seems that the West is to…

Australian notes

4 November 2017 9:00 am

John Howard and the black hand It is not particularly far-fetched to claim that the Liberal Party is in big…

Simon Collins

28 October 2017 9:00 am

In a couple of weeks we’ll know whether the last 5 million votes in the same-sex marriage postal survey confirmed…