Made-up Maori
In what may seem a strange request, I recently replied to a government department asking to be addressed in English,…
Harvard’s racist selection process
You might be surprised to know that Harvard University, along with other American tertiary institutions, routinely and explicitly discriminates on…
Brexit notes
Sent naked to the negotiating table The British public are absolutely fed up with Brexit. But not for the reasons…
Diary
Despite the old saying and the best efforts of Qantas, you can go home again, even if home is New…
Shirley Hazzard
A woman working on a thesis about Shirley Hazzard is a character in A Life to Come, the award-winning novel…
Hold on, what about Holdaway?
What do the years 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300 and 1400 AD have in common, asks British Professor,…
Facing extinction
It’s not only the crazies from Extinction Rebellion who have deliberately buried their heads in the sand lately. So, too,…
Brown study
I need your help. I am applying to the Australia Council for a literary grant and I need a few…
The Democratic party’s post-Christian America
The new Pew report doesn’t mince words in its headline: ‘In US, Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace.’ In…
The DUP is caught on the horns of a Brexit dilemma
There is a magnificent paradox – the Taj Mahal of paradoxes, let’s hope NOT the RMS Titanic of paradoxes –…
It’s time for every Brexiteer to back Boris Johnson’s deal
During my years campaigning for Brexit, I’ve bounced around quite a few different organisations in support of the great cause;…
Extinction Rebellion and all the latest rage in cataclysm
Hypocrite: One who falsely professes to be virtuously or religiously inclined; one who pretends to be other and better than…
Boris Johnson’s path to victory
The Saturday vote on Boris Johnson’s deal will be closer than people think. Around 18 or 19 of the Tory…
Boris Johnson’s biggest Brexit deal victory
In order to get anywhere in life, you have to compromise. Redrafting a deal foisted on you with no time…
A counsellor writes to the Family Court inquiry
My name is Rob Tiller and I worked as a domestic violence counsellor at Anglicare WA for three years and…
Boris Johnson ‘very confident’ MPs will back his deal
Boris Johnson has just given a very upbeat press conference about his Brexit deal, despite the DUP being clear that…
Five ways in which Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal is better than Theresa May’s
Boris Johnson managed to defy his critics today and reach a Brexit deal with the European Union. The new agreement…
The EU might tell MPs: it’s this deal or no deal
Both the UK government and the EU are now saying that a Brexit deal has been done. There is both…
What’s woke this week?
Wokedemia strikes again this week, along with giving new meaning to the term fairy godmother, and a few other cameo…
If you want to boost our flagging economy, remember not all fiscal stimulus is created equal
The International Monetary Fund has forecasted a sharp decrease in Australia’s economic growth over the next year. The estimate predicts…
Does anyone have a job for Chelsea Clinton?
For a long time now, those of us who have the misfortune to have working eyes and ears have become…
Meet the top cop who wants to police your pronouns
What is the purpose of the police? Maybe your answer has something to do with “preventing crime” or “arresting criminals”.…
Tackle the drought or a hard rain’s gonna fall
I’m a country kid. I grew up on a broadacre farm 360 kilometres south-east of Perth, in a little town…
Tulsi Gabbard was a dove on the warpath
It was never especially plausible that Tulsi Gabbard would follow through on her threat to boycott last night’s presidential debate.…
Lewis Hamilton and the unbearable climate change hypocrites
By now we’re all used to being lectured by woke hypocritical celebs. But Lewis Hamilton’s suggestion that we all turn…
