In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Wally World logic, deciphered
The latest on Brexit from Dr Waleed Aly, the noted Monash University political scientist and public intellectual: British Prime Minister…
Free thought is bad for you, philosophers decree
Last year, Bryan W. Van Norden, professor of philosophy at Wuhan University, Yale-NUS College and Vassar College (and the author…
It’s now law: Danandrewstan has more (gender) varieties than Heinz
Remember when you were young and driving around the country on lengthy trips? Often you would alleviate the boredom by…
How Aboriginals are abused by the new PC paternalism
But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the…
When regulators roam out of control
Ask Australian business people and industry representatives in formal meetings about our nation’s regulatory burden, and you will be told…
Why vegetarianism leaves you limp
With the recent news of the vegan ‘food fad’ abuse of a little girl who, at 20 months can’t walk,…
George Pell shows: hard cases make bad law
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there… Bob Dylan The decision last week of the Victorian Court to reject…
The Amazon is burning – but the Chicken Littles pants are also on fire
Amazon rain forest is burning in Brazil and people are angry: When a fire tore through Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris earlier…
The rise of left-wing anti-Semitism
Evidence is mounting that anti-Semitism is on the rise. For a recent example, a CNN poll found that “more than…
Gillette now knows: razor pain is really irritating
At some point in a brainstorm when everyone was fuelled with too much caffeine, it probably seemed like a good…
Tim Fischer: a statesman of courage and character
Last week Australia lost one of its great characters in public life with the death of our tenth deputy prime…
Why won’t the left admit: their war on Alan Jones is a war on dissenting opinion
The woke lynch mob has been busy recently, ramping up their perennial crusade to blackball centre-right voices in the media.…
Our universities Chinese cash cows crisis
Australia’s universities are taking a multi-billion-dollar gamble with taxpayer money to pursue a high-risk, high-reward international growth strategy that may…
Dear ABC, what about diversity of thought?
The(ir) ABC is pushing for 50-50 on-air gender quotas. As part of a “major diversity” push, the taxpayer-funded channel is…
Subsidies, bureaucrats, blackouts and bills: inside our electricity disaster
The Australian Energy Market Operator is one of the half dozen different government institutions responsible for planning and managing the…
Are abortion activists overstating the demand for terminations?
I recently went to see my local member — who also happens to be the NSW Opposition Leader, Jodi McKay…
Nick Kyrgios is a dick (and other startling revelations)
Nick Kyrgios is a dick. True, I don’t know Nick, so I apologise to him if I’m wronging him, but…
Kashmir in happier times
In the nineteen-thirties, my parents, middle class, mixed-race Burghers from then-Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, honeymooned in Kashmir. It was a…
Gladys and Alex: eugenics hip new friends
Many people are rightly outraged at just how extreme Alex Greenwich’s “Reproductive Rights Bill” is, which will soon be before…
What’s woke this week
When I first began writing this column I used to worry that there might be some weeks that wouldn’t provide…
How to reindustrialise Australia
This week we heard that that Australian steel producer BlueScope will invest $1 billion in an Ohio-based American steel plant, citing…
Why the Ramsay Centre is a good bet for UQ — and Australia
After a controversial multi-month negotiation, Ramsay Centre CEO Simon Haines and University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Peter Høj have signed off…
School choice should mean more than a public-private pick
The Australian Scholarships Group (ASG)’s flagship annual publication — the Parents Report Card — dishes up some choice findings about…
Tim Fischer: farewell to a gentle warrior
In its campaign advertising in 1996 the Keating government portrayed Nationals leader Tim Fischer as a half-deranged yokel; a national…
Here come the new eco-fascists
“The Washington Post” beat me taking a closer look at the Christchurch, NZ, and El Paso, Texas, terrorist attacks carried…
