BOSTON, UNITED STATES — Donald Trump’s strike on a Syrian airbase marks the United States’ first direct act of aggression against…

While Hillary Clinton sat whinging (yet again) that misogyny undoubtedly “played a role” in her losing the election, we got…

If there is a distinction to be made between British Labour and Australian Labor, it can be seen no more…

In 1996, British artist Chris Ofili premiered his painting of the Virgin Mary composed through liberal use of elephant dung…

Winston Churchill said of Ramsay MacDonald, Britain’s first Labour PM: I remember when I was a child, being taken to…

On Wednesday, Liberal federal director Tony Nutt announced his resignation after a year and a half in the job. The…

In some respects, the NSW branch of the Young Greens ought to be congratulated for their honesty. As reported in…

If there was any doubt that Australia has a growing hostility towards free speech, the forced cancellation of Ayaan Hirsi…

By no means am I one of those American ‘neo-conservatives’ who’d liberate every tin-pot dictatorship at gunpoint. If some people…

Crickets. This silence isn’t golden, Julia – it’s blue. Beyond blue, actually. Gillard has been speaking out about mental health…

Proficiency in another language is always helpful, particularly when a discrete profanity is required. In a life not always well…

It’s been a big few weeks for the industrial relations landscape in Australia. Former Fair Work Commission vice-president Graeme Watson…

The Labor Party apparently seeks to extend the reach of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act to cover religion.…

Lies are spoken often and freely in public policy debates. But they seldom bear the scrutiny which inevitably comes their…

Supporters of same-sex marriage predicted a ‘campaign of hatred’ would be unleashed by the proposal’s opponents. That’s why Bill Shorten…

If the Walkleys had a Most Humorous Headline category, ‘No bias at the ABC vows new chairman’, would surely take…

Australia’s housing prices are astronomical. Indeed, compared to local salaries, Australian cities are among the world’s most unaffordable places to…

Dictators in the modern age have become very adept at buying friends and reliable apologists. They are praised for their…

As we approach Holy Week (or as some call it, the Easter holidays), I was prompted to remember the principal…

This year’s centenary of the 1917 Revolution always had the potential to expose underlying but usually concealed friction within the…

God knows why, but I found myself browsing that Humans of New York website yesterday. Terrible site. It’s basically emotional…

The Whitlam government’s decision to lay out the welcome mat to communists we had been fighting in Vietnam for almost…

Around this time in March each year, millions of people in developed countries spend 60 minutes of their lives reeling…

Nearly sixteen months after Dyson Heydon handed down his final report following the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption, Malcolm…

Now and again the world gets a real life opportunity to catch a glimpse what would happen if the inmates…