Why the NSW Liberals must give the Modern Slavery Act effect
In June 2018, then-Premier Gladys Berejiklian told parliament there was “an undeniable moral imperative to take action in relation to all forms of…
CNN’s COP capital confusion
American network CNN appears to be bringing the same rigour and insight to COP26 that it displayed throughout the Trump administration.…
Sleep is Joe Biden’s superpower
As usual, P.G. Wodehouse put it best. “What is it Shakespeare calls sleep, Jeeves?,” Bertie Wooster inquires of his faithful…
The Youngkin blueprint
As much as former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe would like voters to believe it, Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin is…
Can Canberra be held accountable internationally for human rights abuses from state lockdown laws?
The Western Australia Premier has recently ordered 75 per cent of WA’s workforce to get vaccinated or face job losses or a…
Macron is following in the failed footsteps of the wrong Napoleon
Is Emmanuel Macron turning into Emperor Napoleon III? Not the great Napoleon who conquered Europe and was eventually defeated by…
Dateline Glasgow: the real costs of renewable energy
Australia has an embarrassment of riches. It possesses vast resources of high quality coal, both coking coal (for iron ore…
Sleepy Joe can’t keep his eyes open
That didn’t take long. It’s less than four hours since America’s septuagenarian president landed in Scotland and already he appears…
The wishful thinking of COP26
History records that George II was the last British king to lead his troops on the battlefield, at the Battle…
EastEnders isn’t the place for a lecture on climate change
Soap operas are cultural punctuation points. Big plot lines unite colleagues, neighbours and distant family members in shared conversation starters.…
Is Britain heading for a full-blown fish war with France?
As the COP26 summit gets underway, a diplomatic Brexit row is escalating on the sidelines of the conference over fish.…
Has Cop 26 already flopped?
‘There is no chance of stopping climate change next week,’ the Prime Minister told me in an interview for ITV…
We now have a bipartisan blueprint to make the tax office fairer. Over to you, Josh
The key Parliamentary Committee overseeing the Australian Taxation Office last week released a report calling for major reforms to the way the…
Leunig – yawn – has done his dash
The Melbourne Age’s declining band of readers are being deprived of the principal reason many of them buy the paper, its veteran…
The New York Times and the art of the Big Lie
Lies come in all shapes and sizes, colors, odors, textures and tastes. Some are only little white lies, but more often the accompanying adjective suggests…
Net zero: a monument to delusion
World politicians are assembling at Glasgow to worship, with varying degrees of faith, the new religion symbolised by net zero.…
Milligan’s Island
Just sit right back and hear a tale A tale of a fateful trip That started from this tropic port…
Can Poland and the EU resolve the rule of law crisis?
In recent months the spectre of ‘Polexit’ has been haunting Europe. Poland and the EU have become embroiled in a…
Medical discrimination is not segregation. It’s worse
I’ve argued before that Australia has entered an era of segregation comparable to the racial segregation of America’s past. However, that was inaccurate.…
It’s madness for half our firefighters to be female
We are currently witnessing a ludicrous campaign aiming for fifty per cent female firefighters. Prominent male bosses have taken this on as a personal crusade,…
What if wokeness really is the new Christianity?
Have you had a conversation about The Wokeness recently? If you’re anything like me, you’ll have had a few. And…
How drones are transforming modern conflicts
Last week’s announcement that US officials believe Iran was behind the October drone strike on the al-Tanf US base in…
Trying to duck the climate fight has made the next election harder for the Coalition
Last week I received an email from federal Liberal director Andrew Hirst soliciting a donation because renewable energy lobbyist and…
The battle for the soul of the National Trust
Yesterday, at the Trust’s AGM, Restore Trust – the body which wants to stop the dumbing-down and politicisation of the…
The small Welsh village taking on the tree planting industry
The village of Cwrt y Cadno sits in a particularly pretty and unspoiled valley in Carmarthenshire, south west Wales. The…
