Setting fire to the climate straw man
As the inevitably painful consequences of unfounded climate alarmism hit home with our very own energy crisis, Australians are entitled…
2030: a glimpse of dystopia
The year is 2030. Steven and Melissa are a young Global Citizen couple who have just received wonderful news –…
Is the feminist mafia controlling science funding?
Melbourne University research fellow Dr Anna Kosovac is a civil engineer and an expert in water policy. Last year she…
Why Russia couldn’t give up on empire
One hundred years ago this December, delegations from the core nations of the East Slavs, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus signed the…
Why Argentina is the team we love to hate
With the prospect of Messi closing out his glorious career with the ultimate prize it’s likely most neutral fans will…
What the revisionists get wrong about America’s nuclear bombings
The use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki is hardly a festive subject. But given that in recent conversations…
What will Putin do next?
If you were Putin, what would you do? Predicting your adversary’s future moves requires putting yourself in his shoes. As…
How Dickens invented Christmas
Time was, the Christmas shopping season used to last a week or two. Now it drags on for months. Never…
Has TikTok’s time run out?
The US Senate has (finally) decided to ban Chinese social media app TikTok from government devices after years of criticism…
Reforming Australia’s child support system
Australia’s child support system was introduced by the Hawke government in 1988. Since that time, it has undergone various incremental…
A close encounter with American healthcare
In November 2013, I had my only encounter with the American healthcare system after finishing the New York marathon. It…
Why we should take the Twitter Files seriously
‘Shadowbanning’, ‘visibility filtering’, ‘de-amplification’ – the Twitter Files released since Elon Musk took over have given us a new and sinister language…
When it comes to migrants, Britain needs to be more French
Rishi Sunak’s fighting talk as he launched the latest Tory crackdown on illegal Channel migrants this week, with the dramatic words…
Why are political failures like David Cameron so richly rewarded?
The news – reported in the FT Weekend – that former Prime Minister David Cameron is to teach a three-week course…
Nothing will ever be good enough for Harry and Meghan
Imagine you’ve paid good money to see a French farce – and halfway through, it turns into a Greek tragedy.…
The joke’s on Xi: China will not keep its climate fortune
China is kidding itself if it thinks Western mining corporations and tax-hungry governments are going to sit around and let…
Tidings of comfort & joy
‘God rest ye merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay…’ Easier said than done, of course, at the end of a…
The 2022 NSW Wokely Awards
Some people think the electoral contest between Chis Minns and Dom Perrottet is the equivalent of a long-running version of…
Christmas diary
Shock! I’ve found a bomb in my library. My sanctuary. My hermitage. I’d hauled down a book of essays one…
Brown study
This has been the year when the Liberal party teetered to the edge of oblivion. Unless something dramatic happens, next…
