Just how many careers can Melbourne academic and media celebrity Waleed Aly cram into his day?   Waleed, we now know, because his tag…

From your favourite chipwrapper and mine. Vital news that demonstrates the importance of independent, quality media. Vital news that demonstrates…

I know Andrew Bolt moderately.  For a time I appeared on The Bolt Report.  I’ve had the pleasure of meeting…

Hastily conceived panel discussions are seldom a good idea, yet that’s precisely what the Brookings Institute rushed into following President…

The growing influence of the state throughout the western world, buttressed by technological development and a crisis of confidence in…

A few days ago, I received the latest edition of the ‘The Butler Bulletin’ in the mail from my local…

In coming days the world will watch the UK elections and ponder the result. And following on, inevitably, people will think…

The radicalisation of Muslims is the bastard child of Islam. The elephant in the room we refuse to talk about.…

Ask yourself. You’re an editor at what still likes to think of itself as a paper of record in a…

Hands up, who’s confused? What is our national response to violence meant to be? We have a real problem with…

The only plausible emotion at this point is anger. Anger towards those who have sought to silence this problem for…

“I can’t believe it, Tim. Only five years into the job and my tenure as President of the Australian Human…

Another week, another terrorist attack. And the hills of social media are alive with the sounds of often well meaning…

There is nothing particularly remarkable or amazing about Margaret Court’s comments on same-sex attraction or whatever. She offers absolutely no…

You are not allowed to debate the existence of male privilege. At least that’s according to Fairfax Daily Life columnist, Ruby Hamad.…

Embattled Health Department head, Martin Bowles’s, Senate estimates performance last week is a gift that keeps on giving. As we…

2012: Famed self-deprecating, ‘red-neck’, Republican comedian Jeff Foxworthy tries to reignite his slowly waning career by posing for a photo-shoot,…

It started with a palm to the forehead. Then the glass thermometer, the one in the metal case with the…

In March, the University of Melbourne Student Union ran an “intersectional and student-led workshop around the ways in which privilege and unconscious bias…

Are we in the West stupid, careless, uninformed or suicidal? It is now 10 years – that is a decade…

On an icy Canberra evening, your correspondent makes her way through excited Chinese students to ANU’s Copland Theatre where Chloe Shorten…

Given the outcome of last week’s grand talk-fest at the lavish Sails in the Desert resort at Yulara, near Ayers…

One of the maxims of fiscal policy is that when a government is on the hunt for revenue, weird and unexpected things can happen. Everyone…

With the world’s attention currently focused on events in North Korea and the never-ending crisis of the Syrian civil war,…

A gloating headline this week has spoken so many volumes about gender politics it’s not even comical. Treasury did not…