It’s time for primaries
Political class failure undermines the standing of our governments. Every ignored voter concern, project failure and moment of spin leaves…
Brown study
The latest exercise in selective outrage to descend on the country is the response to the news that Barnaby Joyce…
Diary
For the past three weeks, London has been experiencing a glorious early summer: piercing blue skies, long warm evenings, the…
Latham’s Law
In the Middle Ages, society had a long list of taboo terms, usually associated with witchcraft. In today’s politics, the…
Eyes on Gaza
Israel’s government is often accused of preventing a two-state solution by its actions but rarely are the decisions of Hamas…
What Rotherham means
The revelations of unhindered Muslim sex-trafficking of thousands of young girls in British towns, including Rotherham, Rochdale and Oxford, are…
Educating China
Imagine you are responsible for educating the children of China’s current leaders, many of whom may well go on to…
Tony’s trifecta
Surely it was obvious that, on any reasonable examination, Donald Trump was by far the better candidate in the 2016…
Business/Robbery etc
Australia’s current corporate leaders, the ‘managerial class’, are slowly destroying the capitalism that has made us such a great and…
Dear Dr Greer, please shut up
I’ve always been a Germaine Greer fan-girl. Her books ‘The Whole Woman’ and ‘The Female Eunuch’ changed my life. Germaine…
The great rock ‘n’ roll show off
Right now in Facebook world, they’re running the Facebook Greatest Album Challenge and it keeps cluttering up my wall. Nominate…
The moral and economic case for tax cuts
It is difficult to find anyone in politics willing to make a case for income tax cuts for anyone considered…
The beast of corporate virtue awakens
Diversity and Inclusion. Tolerance and Respect. Gender Equality. These are the sacred creeds of the new corporate world. They’re also…
Memo various Victorian Liberals: don’t offer a solution when you are the problem
Just as Liberal preselection wars are hotting up in NSW, David Crowe reported in Fairfax Media on Thursday that Victoria Liberal Party…
Turnbull’s online shopping tax drives Amazon USA out of Australia
The Turnbull government’s online shopping tax which applies a 10 per cent GST price spike to imports worth less than…
Definition of a nightmare: #MeToo meets free speech
The #MeToo conversation is swiftly sliding from worrying to worse as the sturdy shove for changes to defamation laws gathers…
Pirate Pete’s “fitzocrisy”
Some of the arguments that Peter FitzSimons makes has me thinking that there might just be a “multiverse” after all.…
A Viking, an Aboriginal and a culture bureaucrat walk into a museum…
Rocks dash together And witches collapse, Men go the way to Hel And the heavens are cleft. Thus ran the…
Is Canberra’s strongest sceptic set for the high jump?
The Australian parliament is replete with closet-sceptics of human-caused catastrophic global warming. But Craig Kelly actually speaks out on this…
The Child Support Agency prompts fresh calls for a Royal Commission
Try as they might to stop the almighty juggernaut of public experience catching up with them, the Child Support Agency…
Australia’s madrasases
It was nearly two decades ago that I offered to talk at the Anglican school my daughters attended on the…
Campion College shows we need more champions for the liberal arts
Launching the iPad 2 in March 2011, the Apple co-founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs, reflected that “It is in…
Can bumbler Birmingham protect western civilisation in our universities?
It seems that the academic left in Australia, the same New Class left that captured the Australian Labor Party and…
How hipsters can patronise coloured folk in the name of anti-racism
It wasn’t a comedy show, it was documentary. That great journal of repute The Mail Online reports: An Oregon activist…
The lost soul of western civilisation
Well, the wedding of the year has come and gone. The pomp and pageantry is starting to fade. And the…
