In the keynote address at the Brisbane Writer’s Festival in September, the novelist Lionel Shriver took aim at some of…

It must be a quiet news day.  Buzzfeed’s Mark di Stefano posted a reheated story this morning, casting a close…

On September 29, after the South Australia’s electrical power collapsed, I wrote satirically of a fantasy New South Wales premier…

A little over two decades ago, as the deputy secretary responsible for Victoria’s energy policy, I accompanied the then Coalition…

Close to 1,000 workers will lose their jobs following the announcement of the closure of the Hazelwood power station in…

When the internet first began in early 90s one of its defining characteristics was anonymity. People created Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL accounts with…

If you believe the outrage among women’s groups, US-born filmmaker Cassie Jaye is not only the world’s most controversial feminist,…

A new bit of Clinton-media rot is making the rounds on social media, this one from the formerly estimable Time. Robin…

I have been enjoying a road trip through Tasmania. For an island of startling natural beauty, it is ironic that…

Kerryn Pholi’s outstanding opinion piece in today’s Australian examines the way the Australian Human Rights Commission has exclusively singled out Bill Leak for persecution under Section 18C  of the Racial Discrimination Act for drawing ‘offensive’ things…

Yes, it is true that the buck stops with him, and that he is responsible for his decisions and actions,…

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a…

A prize-winning reporter of the old school (we started as cadets on The West Australian together) has sent me a…

Judging by a intriguing report in The Wall Street Journal and several more like it in The New York Times…

Most are familiar with the children’s tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes. It follows the downfall of a conceited Emperor who fell…

Talk of Donald Trump really draws a crowd. For example, few people would have known of Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the…

It’s a Hindu feast day today. Diwali. So, what’s the best way for the national broadcaster to mark it? Why,…

The gender fluid and definitely not patriarchal Figurehead’s (if that doesn’t smack of privilege) Prayer Our Waleed who art on…

To dispense with the obvious, Donald Trump’s recently aired commentary about his extra-marital escapades are ill befitting of any serious…

Adelaide Sunday Mail columnist Peter Goers has written a hit-piece on his fellow News Corp scribbler, the precocious Caleb Bond, which he…

Whoever said or emailed what to whom, David Leyonhjelm’s Adler shotgun blasted through Coalition ranks last week.  What this week’s…

Dear Mia I was interested to read the report published in the Grind coffee society magazine in relation to online…

Senator-elect Kimberley Jane Elizabeth Kitching just loves winning. When it happens, her mouth literally explodes ear-to-ear with a supercilious Luna…

In the The Matrix, the protagonist Neo is offered a choice of taking the red pill which will wake him…

Australian military-political intrigue claimed its first victim on January 26, 1808 when the NSW Rum Corps arrested Governor William Bligh.…