Imprisoned Saudi writer Raif bin Muhammad Badawi was on my mind this week, as he often is when questions of free speech…

The Australian Institute of Marine Science has just revealed that Great Barrier Reef coral coverage has recovered to be as good as,…

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Curtin…

When he was back on the ground after his – ahem – epic space flight of all of ten minutes, Amazon founder Jeff…

A key to understanding our current predicament is the extent to which Covid has come to resemble a religion. Covidanity,…

The street I grew up on was the border of a public housing estate.  On my side of the street…

The fourth in a series of articles examining Dark Emu-style claims. These days we hear a lot about what a…

The Premier of Victoria said a few interesting things when he plunged the state into its fifth lockdown.  He was…

Eighty-one years ago, comic book writer Joe Simon created Captain America, an agile and resilient superhero who represented the American…

Finally, the 2020 Olympics are finally about to kick off. So why does it already feel so underwhelming?   After…

How many public service jobs and third party government contracts have been created specifically to hold up the Covid bureaucracy?  Forget about…

Q: Premier, what public services will be cut or what taxes will be raised to allow Queensland to host the…

The New South Wales Chief Health Officer told us yesterday that “whilst it is human nature to engage in conversation…

Just mention lockdown and a certain type of Australian starts salivating — Victorians and Western Australians. That’s one of the…

There are less than 500 days until the next Victorian state election. With Victorians well into our fifth never-ending lockdown,…

I feel incredibly lucky to be living in our beautiful country. Thanks to our swift response to Covid-19, we have…

Have you noticed the latest scare tactic pushed in the Victorian press conferences?  After 16 months of waiting for the…

Sydneysiders, as a Victorian I know how red with anger you all are when your Premier gets up day after…

Over a century ago the great American jurist James Bradley Thayer warned against handing social policy decision-making over to the…

I’m not one for personal criticism, even dumb, socialist, hypocritical, anti-everything Greens. But if I were, I would put public…

It’s official — or as official as it can be. The emperor — the Prime Minister, actually — has no…

One of the foundational concepts upon which western civilisation is built is the Judeo-Christian insistence that every human being is…

Pupils, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way. You choose.  If Australia can’t improve our international K-12…

One fascinating figure is missing from today’s Newspoll – the margin of error. As a quick glance at the table…

The third in a series of articles examining Dark Emu-style claims. These days we hear a lot about what a…