Australian notes
Elites thwarting the great Aussie dream For too many Australians, the great Australian dream of home ownership becomes more elusive…
Stone not gathering moss
If you are part of that multitude of Australians who fear that our country is drifting backwards – becoming less…
Brown study
For a while there, I thought that my credentials on climate change were pretty good. As I explained to my…
Hasn’t Israel Folau been punished enough?
When Israel Folau settled his multi-million dollar grievance with Rugby Australia after he was sacked over a social media post…
Ms Nina Funnell
On January 30 The Spectator Australia published an online opinion piece by Ms Bettina Arndt containing references to journalist Ms Nina Funnell.…
It’s time to give enterprise bargaining the boot
ACTU secretary Sally McManus believes Australia’s enterprise bargaining system is “broken”. While Jennifer Westacott, CEO of the Business Council of Australia…
The irrational faith of the Church of Climate Catastrophe
On Q&A on September 23 last year, Kerry O’Brien answered a question from an audience member about climate change. Speaking…
Boris should take back control from the House of Lords
I imagine that in recommending Philip Hammond and Ken Clarke for peerages, Boris Johnson sees himself in engaging in a…
Trump should build to last
Will the government finally stop giving the concrete finger to popular taste by erecting ugly, expensive and unsustainable buildings with…
The coronavirus outbreak shows WHO is afraid of China
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has sometimes been too slow to properly react to major outbreaks of illnesses or diseases.…
Putin is resurrecting Russia’s Cold War pact with Cuba
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov kicked off his tour of Latin America this week with a visit to Cuba. The…
A night with Bernie Sanders’s brother
Larry Sanders, Bernie’s literal bro, moved to England in the late 1960s and settled in picture postcard Oxford. I was…
Wisdom at Railway Square
The incongruity made as much of an impact as the poster itself, on a wall along with a few other…
Of course president Trump was acquitted
The impeachment of President Trump was unfounded in law and in fact and was never anything but a smear-job organised…
What’s woke this week?
Dinner parties, animal rights and newly defined crimes against Mother Nature top the list of woke stories this week. But…
Their ABC, biased? Nepotistic? Nah!
Richard Alston was minister for communications for around half the life of the Howard government. In that portfolio, he made…
Who saw that coming? Trump acquitted
It was all going so well for Donald Trump. Then came Mitt Romney. The Utah Republican stole the show. In…
The motivation behind the government’s plans for the BBC
Since Boris Johnson returned to No. 10 with a majority of 80, there’s been a growing sense that the Prime…
The financial world is ignoring growth for greenwash
Despite global economic headwinds, international institutions — often with exclusively economic missions —are increasingly sliding their priorities out of whack.…
Iowa offers more questions than answers
The results from Iowa are still trickling in, but however much confusion there is in Des Moines, the choices that…
After Iowa, Donald Trump looks invincible
Any future history of the decline and fall of the American Republic ought to include a page or two on…
Quassem Soleimani’s terror lives on for Israelis
Quassem Soleimani is dead but in Israel fear of his warped legacy lives on. The Iranian general was key to…
