On the weekend I was on an ABC Radio National panel discussion about major topical events of the week.  The return…

The left-wing admiration for Malcolm Turnbull, with his PC-opinions and hip leather jacket during his wilderness years of 2010-2015, was…

Looking for a little culture this weekend? Here’s something: Hilariously though even this sort of stuff comes completes with a…

Thanks to NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli, the deeply entrenched, multi-million dollar Reading Recovery program will no longer be sacrosanct…

For too long governments have convinced themselves they are contributing to better Indigenous outcomes simply because they are spending money…

From the latest e-mail missive from Melbourne Farmers Markets: Keep your veggies and leftovers fresh with BeeKeep. Beeswax coated cloth provides…

So, we now know why Essential Research has found that 49 per cent of the people it polled support a…

Revelations reported yesterday about Human Headline turned crucial Senate vote Derryn Hinch’s fondness for a tipple caused a bit of…

For the first time in more than 25 years the Republican Party has a legitimate heir to the blue collar…

The August 2016 decision of the Federal Court to award $3.3 million under the Native Title Act to traditional owners…

My article in this week’s Speccie took a look at important developments in the Syrian civil war: the US-led coalition’s decision to put regime…

Here we go again. The UK Government unveiled its plans for a sugar tax in March this year. Closer to…

“When John Howard took to the stage at the National Press Club some days ago …” The Age’s editorial begins…

Bertrand Russell said, “Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will…

According to research commissioned by The Australia Institute if we ban all new coalmines, allowing coal production to fall from…

Writing the first draft of history, as journalists and columnists are conceited enough to imagine that we do, is a…

About the same time as I was finalising the leading article for last week’s Spectator Australia, a boffin at the Age was doing a…

Imagine for a moment that you’re the managing director of a mining company. You have a project that has met…

Constructing a viable conservative governing coalition with a coherent plan of action for the problems of today is fundamentally complicated…

So here we are, marking the Ides of Malcolm.  One year ago today Malcolm Turnbull reached for his dagger and…

According to WA Labor’s Plan for Jobs, ‘a McGowan Labor Government will free business from the burden of poor regulations’.…

A plebiscite? Yawn. Here’s a far more exciting dispatch from the frontlines of the War on Marriage. Polygamists are on…

Forget about Hillary Clinton’s health. What about Derryn Hinch’s? “Reportedly, I am in the record books as being the oldest…

Let me take a moment to clarify the difference between a hack and a politician. I get the sense that…

In the latest example of gross stereotyping and intolerance opposition leader Bill Shorten’s comments that the marriage plebiscite could cause…