Speech by the Editor, David Furse-Roberts. Tonight’s occasion and this book is all about honouring a great Australian and a…

At the moment I’m re-reading AJP Taylor’s classic The Origins of the Second World War. In his uniquely lucid and…

In many circumstances, poor people in the developing world would actually be better off if their dictators gave their foreign…

Everything is inevitable. Stuff happens. This is how international relations work. The US-North Korea summit was always going to happen…

What is the point of all this gender point scoring? Male models wore prosthetic baby bumps at a London Fashion…

The proper way to understand the giant inverted crosses as part of Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival is not an expression…

Georgina Downer is not everyone’s cup of tea. Even some usually conservative types aren’t sure if the folk of the…

Everything about Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un’s meeting was surreal but lefties acutely bitter reaction is illogical. Yes, we should…

As the Good Book says, by their fruits ye shall know them. Summits mean nothing, their consequences everything. We should…

Dark Mofo is one of those pretentious displays of artistic expression that make most people roll their eyes and sigh.…

Who guards the guardians? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes and all that. The Daily Caller has the answer: Four of the world’s biggest…

With the President-for-two-terms of the United States, Donald J Trump and the President-for-life, Kim Jong Un actually in Singapore for…

Finally, there’s been a successful protest against journalist Clementine Ford’s hateful attacks on men. The Fairfax columnist, who regularly tweets…

Kim Jong-un’s nuclear bluff looks like working. He and President Trump are on Singapore soil as I write, preparing to…

As someone who grew up in a church community that welcomed refugees to our country from places as far afield…

Australia’s former prime minister, Tony Abbott is blamed for nearly everything these days. Higher rates of suicide amongst LGBTIQ youth,…

The debate grinds on. Last week Australian National University Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt, an astrophysicist who probably never imagined things could…

Chivalry is a virtue, but only when exercised responsibly. Unfortunately, men have so gone overboard in their chivalry that many…

I suspect a fair few readers are pretty incredulous about the whole Peter Ridd saga at James Cook University. Ridd…

Two recent incidents have called into question the role of Australia’s foreign aid program. Indonesia raised eyebrows last week, after…

I have long wondered why really intelligent people, like Malcolm Turnbull, say, and others, fail to see how irrational it…

Imagine, if you will, a parallel universe in which the ANU accredits the Ramsay Centre. The Centre produces a mission…

We’re sick of news, apparently. I can’t say I’m particularly surprised: If you feel like there is too much news…

Because we can criticise episodes of the abuse of power by Western nations or the descent to nonsense by those…

Everywhere you turn there is a culture clash over the sexual revolution. Consent laws are currently being reviewed in NSW,…