A story has surfaced about a prostitute in Adelaide who alleged she was raped after a male client removed his condom…

The SpecOz has already registered disgust at New Zealand male-born Laurel – formerly Gavin – Hubbard’s selection in the Kiwi…

Something strange is happening to the Liberal Party in South Australia, long captured by the ascendant so-called “moderate” faction, led…

Did you see the recent Pew surveys in the United States about Twitter?  Twitter users make up under a tenth…

This week has proved the National Party leadership is a poisoned chalice, even when someone hasn’t been leader for years.…

It’s no surprise Inclusive Australia’s ‘Measuring Social Inclusion’ survey last year discovered three out of five respondents “believed that White Australians…

It’s a little complicated trying to stay on top of everything and all the premiers — or the coppers or…

At the risk of seeming a little obsessed, and possibly boring readers, I wonder if I might be indulged in…

Living back in my hometown — being slightly starved of cultural content — I quickly bought tickets to Bri Lee’s…

The decision of the good pre-selectors of the National Party to resist the attempt by its remaining elder statesman, John…

It’s not obvious who sets health care policy in Australia and it’s not obvious for whose benefit it even is.…

Another Tuesday, another Essential Poll — one that has some fascinating insights on how we’ve cooled on China. Australians, it…

Last week, I received a message from two friends on one day. They had tried to join the Liberal Party…

The biggest takeaway from Andrew Denton’s 2003 interview with Steve Irwin on Enough Rope was how much Steve idolised his father Bob.…

Having snapped at Nationals leader Michael McCormack’s heels for the best part of two years, forcibly deposed leader Barnaby Joyce…

William Jennings Bryan? Never heard of him? Take a look at Wikipedia:  William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July…

Scholars of the classics will remember that quote from This Is Spın̈al Tap: “It’s such a fine line between stupid…

Ironic. Coronavirus is known as coronavirus because of the “coronas”, the crown shapes on its cells. The measures taken against…

Australia’s educational performance has been in decline since the 1970s, but this is no accident. It is by design, curriculum…

For decades, Australian men have been caricatured as foolish idiots in advertising.  Men are presented as stupid, useless or otherwise…

Seemingly infected by Thunbergism, the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, set to run from July 6 – 17, has re-imagined itself…

John Locke, seen by many as the father of our Western Liberal culture, once said “the end of law is…

I’m not saying Johnny Rotten is a prophet, but he kind of is.  The manic-eyed lead singer of the Sex…

Well, Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe certainly threw the Tasmanian devil among the scrub turkeys supporting Bruce Pascoe, with the…