Latham’s law
Have new communication technologies suddenly become dangerous? I always thought texting on whiz-bang iPhones was a good thing.If my daughter’s…
Thinking versus doing
The Australian National University’s rejection of the Ramsay Centre’s Western Civilisation degree has ignited a debate about university education in…
Revolt against collectivism
If politics is the robust exchange of ideas, there are certainly times when one must look beyond personalities to see…
Black mass
That Dark Mofo, the Tasmanian festival dedicated to the dark arts, has courted controversy once again is no surprise. Just…
Tin foil hats and the top end of town
You have to wonder what Paul Keating will be thinking as the invitations to attend Labor fundraisers and campaign events…
Aida
Aida was commissioned from Giuseppe Verdi to celebrate the opening of the Opera House in Cairo in early 1871, the…
Letter from Russia
The Football World Cup was a winner for Russia; tourists like me flooded in (to cheer a reasonably performed Australian…
Anti-Abbott galahs just lying or incompetent?
Tony Abbott has the politicians, the commentariat and other elites very worried, and not just about energy.They know that what…
Brown study
You may not realise it, but you are walking with history, for a Political Scandal of the Third Kind is…
GST money for nothing
Paul Keating once warned about never getting between state premiers and a bucket of money. Since 1999, that bucket has…
Grounded realities
‘Social democratic parties have a problem selling opportunity and hope, while conservatives easily sell fear and trepidation’. I am paraphrasing…
Australian troops fear Afghan lawsuits
Thousands of Australian military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of being dragged through the courts…
Time to call out misandry in the media
To believe that misandry is any better than misogyny is to have no concept of equality. So, who wants to…
From a home of the enlightenment to one of its greatest products
There are few better places in the world for a Scotsman to spend to spend a three-month Sabbatical than Sydney.…
A quick quiz you can’t win
Who are these people? Without giving the quiz game away, here are some characteristics of people who belong to a…
Judge Brett Kavanaugh v Your ABC
If you thought American politics was a passionate and emotive affair, President Trump’s appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the United…
I’m transgender – and proudly conservative
I’m a transwoman, and this is my #walkaway story. I grew up in a conservative Catholic, Labor-voting family in South-Western…
“A curfew for men”, you say? A few questions…
Pretty much the entire population in Australia has had enough of the man bashing. They’ve had enough of the boiling…
Free speech Kiwi roadkill
It was frighteningly authoritarian when the Mayor of Auckland and former Kiwi Labour leader, Phil Goff, decreed by tweet on…
Fine dining with Lettuce and Lavender
Lettuce and Lavender wanted their friends to see their new home nestled amongst the tall gums at the base of…
Edmund Burke down under
Accepting the Edmund Burke Award in November 2016, John Howard paid homage to the eighteenth century Anglo-Irish statesman, remarking that…
Build our boys, guard our girls
As a high school youth pastor, I recently sat my boys down and we discussed Christian teaching as it related…
Gun lore
I took the bullet in the chest and fell over dramatically, in what I hoped was slow motion, rolling down…
The big British babies bawling about Trump – and tantrum tyranny
It seems that one of the things which people on the left fear most is being taken over by some…
Who defends our defenders?
Last week Defence admitted former Lt Colonel Karel Dubsky was an innocent victim of the Jedi Council witchhunt that terminated…
