Guest notes
Deplorable notes
Which was the most tragic celebrity casualty of 2016? Was it George Michael, the most gifted queer since William Shakespeare?…
Obama notes
Stabbing an ally in the back After so injudiciously ratifying the Paris climate agreement on the very day Donald Trump…
Immigration notes
At last, we’ve found something worse than Islamists: Millennial Islamists. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Somali refugee who carried out…
Jerusalem diary
‘To know how the world goes without America, look at Aleppo’. That’s the kind of insight (from the head of…
Christmas notes
Festive baubles The two seasons I love most in life are elections and Christmas. As we near the year’s end,…
Music lover’s notes
A late Sunday afternoon visit to Bunnings to acquire a necessity now in short supply, incandescent small bayonet light globes,…
Media notes
Mate, I tell ya. Jim-friggin’-Allan. No one else’s writing quite has the power to make me physically sick. His piece…
Dis-con notes
The next Abbott ministry Writing here on October 1 last, I said: ‘The Liberal Party now desperately needs a leader…
New York notes
The great persuader The shock was total. Jaws had dropped, faces were stunned. ‘How could this be?’ was the thought…
Trumpian notes
Gavin McInnes won Australians’ hearts and minds when he called Waleed Aly an ‘East Indian retard virgin micro-penis’, and I…
MT Vernon notes
Finally the US Presidential elections are over; it is Trump after all. After a visit to both coasts stateside, I…
Racing notes
Not just a once-a-year party My spring carnival commenced in August on Lawrence Stakes day at Caulfield. The racecourse was…
Conservative notes
And they wonder why their supporters are deserting them… The whole 18C hate-speech saga is now verging on the pathetic.…
Indonesian notes
The criminalisation of separatism When Indonesian President Joko Widodo visits Australia this coming week, he may be surprised to find…
Nobel notes
Bob Dylan won this year’s Nobel Prize, ‘for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.’ Which…
Provincial notes
Turnbull was right. Let the states tax us Go and teach a constitutional law course in my native Canada and…
Legal notes
On the haters and their hatred of ‘hate speech’ In the law of libel a statement of claim still alleges,…
Victorian notes
High farce and monstrous hypocrisy Earlier this year, I wrote in these pages that ‘Victorians are suffering under the most…
Dis-con notes
How long, O Lord, how long? In ‘Del-Con Notes: Election Post-Mortem’ (06/08/16) I surveyed the Liberal Party catastrophe wrought by…
Immigration notes
This one’s a stitch: according to a recent Essential poll, 49 per cent of Australians believe Muslim immigration should be…
Syrian notes
Raise a glass to Tony On September 10th, 2015, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced his decision to end RAAF airstrikes…
Media notes
Last Man Standing An inevitability has struck me about the reconfigured Federal Parliament this week. Despite a plethora of political…
Legal notes
What if the leader of a religious group addressed a public rally in Sydney and openly called for the murder…
Gay marriage notes
I hate to say it, but the Age made some solid points about the gay marriage plebiscite in their August…
Media notes
Tackling the elephant Let’s cut to the chase; Australian political leadership must find the stomach to deal with the core…
