Australian letters
Spoilt children Sir: Re: Queens Birthday A message to the Australian Labor Party from the ordinary, decent people of this…
Doctors and deaths: how many mortalities were avoidable?
Mortal combat Health secretary Jeremy Hunt promised more protection for medical staff accused of criminal malpractice after a doctor was…
Not our ABC
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is a $1.04 billion piece of public policy and we treat it as exactly that: a…
Latham’s law
At last, there’s a break in the weather. As identity politics has swept across Australia like a crackling thunderstorm, drenching…
Letter from Penge
Australia is now unwittingly linked even more closely with the dreary outer-London suburb of Penge. Not only was it the…
Planetary perspectives
Here I am, back in Ecuador. Ecuadorians boast that the 6,310-metre high Mt Chimaborazo volcano protrudes 2,073 metres higher into…
Australia, defenceless
The ability of our armed forces to defend the nation is being crippled, not through any fault of theirs, but…
Punish Pooh-bahs, not poor people
An ancient dead white bloke, Aristotle, conceived a world with natural masters and servants, writing ‘That some should rule, and…
Canadian notes
The size of the dog in the fight Can you imagine running on a party platform or manifesto with the…
Australian notes
Western Civ That the Australian National University has rejected funding to establish a Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation proves how…
Michael Lewis as Rigoletto
Sir Walter Scott published The Bride of Lammermoor in 1819 as one of his hugely successful Waverley novels which captured…
Blind to their own racism
As human beings, we often act in ways that are contradictory. Little inconsistencies are fine, but when they become major…
Brown study
The Barbarians are at it again. If it is not statues they want to desecrate, it is the names of…
Another swamp that needs to be drained
Did you know that the Inspector General, the United States Justice Department’s watchdog for the FBI, released his report yesterday…
Towards a national register of engineers who are registered
Growth is good. Growth is essential. When company executives say that, however, they are talking about growth of productivity, or…
Dorothy Hewett: even libertines need limits
Dorothy Hewett is the perfect illustration of what happens when feminism turns feral. The Sydney Morning Herald has said that…
Launching ‘Howard: The Art of Persuasion’
Speech by the Editor, David Furse-Roberts. Tonight’s occasion and this book is all about honouring a great Australian and a…
Will the Cormack-Liberal jaw-jaw lead to more war-war?
At the moment I’m re-reading AJP Taylor’s classic The Origins of the Second World War. In his uniquely lucid and…
World Cup winning aid scamming
In many circumstances, poor people in the developing world would actually be better off if their dictators gave their foreign…
Stuff happens
Everything is inevitable. Stuff happens. This is how international relations work. The US-North Korea summit was always going to happen…
Gender point scoring – what’s the point?
What is the point of all this gender point scoring? Male models wore prosthetic baby bumps at a London Fashion…
Why I support Dark Mofo’s inverted crosses
The proper way to understand the giant inverted crosses as part of Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival is not an expression…
Since when was Sydney in the Adelaide Hills?
Georgina Downer is not everyone’s cup of tea. Even some usually conservative types aren’t sure if the folk of the…
Trump haters, get over it
Everything about Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un’s meeting was surreal but lefties acutely bitter reaction is illogical. Yes, we should…
The Kim ‘n’ Donald Show
As the Good Book says, by their fruits ye shall know them. Summits mean nothing, their consequences everything. We should…
