There’s a photo taken in South Africa after Nelson Mandela’s funeral.  Three Anglosphere PMs, Tony Abbott, Canada’s Stephen Harper and…

The restricting of freedom of association and freedom of religion is back on the agenda in Victorian Parliament this week.…

What’s gone wrong in South Australia? For much of the population, not very much, really. Most services are quite good, infrastructure development has…

At the recent Queensland state Labor conference Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the government’s commitment to a human rights act, modelled…

BOSTON, UNITED STATES — The Alt-Right hysteria sweeping the Western world is as overwrought as it is alarming. On the…

There’s no business like show business, as the old song goes – and no feminism as purely exhibitionistic as the…

In 2008 Australia developed a ‘Joint’ Agreement with the PNG Government in regard to the management of the Kokoda Trail…

It just goes to show what a topsy-turvy world we are living in where somebody who believes that life is…

My primary school teacher used to swear by Jove to emphasise how impressed he was when one of his pupils…

I’m sure you were all up late on Wednesday night eagerly awaiting the publication of the latest OECD Revenue Statistics.…

We are all racists now. Noel Person tells us so. The “hard bigotry” of Quadrant conservatism has merged with the “soft bigotry” of the ABC. The two have met in “the common…

Malcolm Turnbull and Michaelia Cash have boasted that the long-awaited passage of the Government’s ABCC bills is a ‘fundamental economic…

No countries have a closer relationship with Australia than New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. We have shared history…

As Australia’s political year fizzles to an ignominious end, the political oddity which is One Nation continues as the gift…

The latest international maths and science results suggest that Australia is a slow learner when it comes to improving school…

The Greens have relaunched their drug policy, with party members approving Richard Di Natale’s proposed changes at their national conference in…

The ABC asks all the important questions like “Should you tell your kids the ‘truth’ about Santa?” – and answers them: “Is…

I’ve been floating the idea of hoaxing The Guardian for years now. The plan was to pose as some emotionally…

Last week the good people at Centre for Authoritarian Ideas – otherwise known as the Grattan Institute – released a…

Australia is becoming a mock democracy; a demockracy. It is observable on a daily basis as some politicians, journalists and…

Forget the tyranny of low expectations. The opposite happens at The Age. As its standards plummet, the paper soars to…

Where is Professor Triggs when you want her? How could the Turnbull government be so mean and petty and also,…

Last Friday, Fairfax ran a report by Latika Bourke on my talk to the Centre for Independent Studies, as the so-called…

Was it William Shakespeare who wrote, “Put a lawyer into uniform but it cannot a soldier make”? Perhaps not, but…

Unbelievable. Absolutely un-be-f*cking-lievable. Read the ABC’s obituary of Fidel Castro, the “romantic revolutionary”. Not one mention of human rights abuses.…