A fight for the heart and soul of the Liberal Party
Choosing between Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison as to whom should lead the Liberal party is the most significant decision…
To the Prime Minister, Peter Dutton, Tony Abbott, the Attorney and Governor-General…
The key people in the current crisis urgently need independent and urgent advice, the sort of advice they may not…
How soon our media forgot last week’s outrage
While we wait to see just who will be prime minister at the end of today (or if we’re heading…
How the spill looks to Fairfax’s job snobs
Such horrible elitism. Such snobbery. Such privilege on display — and from publications so woke. We need a hashtag. We…
Some priorities for a Liberal PM – any Liberal PM
Two messages for Canberra: Firstly, Australia does not have a problem with too much carbon dioxide going to the sky…
#WhatAboutUsBlokes
Feminist commentator Clementine Ford would be a nightmare in couples counselling I suspect. If her crazy-making political antics translate to…
The Liberal leadership and other circus acts
In a long and often bloody and tumultuous history of the Roman Empire, there are few periods like what has…
Charles Blackman’s 90th birthday
Geoffrey Lehmann and I were invited by August, his eldest son, to join the family celebrating Charles Blackman’s ninetieth birthday…
The end of the beginning
So Malcolm Turnbull finally made a tactically wise move and vacated the leadership to bring on the Peter Dutton challenge…
In the name of God, go!
The message from the Liberal Party to Malcolm Turnbull should be the same as Leo Amery’s message to Neville Chamberlain…
Will we vote now before the party room?
Malcolm Turnbull rolled the dice. He won — but only just. The ambush worked — but only just. Paul Keating, of course,…
The #MeToo bombshell we didn’t see coming
Question: if life is as simple as black and white, men are oppressors, women are victims, wouldn’t all of life’s…
Malcolm, you promised… so go
Malcolm Turnbull’s backing off trying to bully his party into a NEGative plan has given the Liberals a golden opportunity…
Abbott’s a better option than Dutton, but…
As Malcolm Turnbull limps into the second week of a tumultuous parliamentary sitting, his leadership is under threat whether he…
Young or old, too many Liberal backbenchers won’t stand for principle
I knew things were bad with the federal Liberal Party but I didn’t know things were this bad. You see…
Only certain outrage makes the Letters to the Editor
There are some words and phrases that are better left unsaid and newbie Senator Fraser Anning has now probably realised…
Sino sexbot subversion? It’s coming…
China is looking to dominate the American market in yet another sector: WMDOLL, based in China’s southeastern Guangdong province, develop AI-powered…
The real reason for the Fraser Anning anger
When Australia’s population was about to pass 25 million the Commonwealth announced that the person would most probably a migrant…
Terrorism isn’t ‘losing’. It has already lost
By now, the routine is familiar: a lone wolf strikes, roads are sealed off, buildings locked down and a biographical…
Portrait of the Week: Westminster attack, House of Fraser and bridge collapse
Home Unemployment fell by 65,000 to 1.36 million — at 4 per cent the lowest level since 1975. The economy…
Ayesha Hazarika’s Edinburgh diary: The most offensive thing about Boris’s burka joke? It wasn’t original
Taking my new stand-up show Girl on Girl to the Edinburgh festival this year and playing at the prestigious venue…
Where does our food actually come from?
Black list Jeremy Corbyn was attacked for attending a ceremony for members of Black September, the terrorist group which carried…
Jeremy Corbyn is either deeply sinister – or a total idiot
The crowd were singing ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ again, at a festival in Cornwall, the words appended to a riff by…
Obsessed with politics? Then your life is going seriously wrong
Timeless in its wisdom, the book Parkinson’s Law is of course famous for Parkinson’s law itself: that ‘work expands to…
Identity politics are – by definition – racist
To mark last weekend’s one-year anniversary of the violent right-wing demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, a meagre two dozen card-carrying white…
