The Parisites
Last month it was two years since world leaders converged with self-congratulatory ceremony and chilled champagne to sign the multi…
Murphy’s lore
Murphy – the Australian Ballet’s tribute to choreographer Graeme Murphy, surely their brightest star – kicks off with a scene…
Dark truth behind white lies
If we look at the former British colonies of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa, we can see several…
Marta Dusseldorp
Nora walks out and shuts the door behind her; shuts the door on her children, her husband, her life to…
Save Liddell or let Abbott do it
Responsible for Australia having the world’s most expensive electricity and gas, the least thing the Turnbull government could do is…
Brown study
One of the oddest under-classes of Melbourne society are the people who write letters to the Age. Not the main…
Battle fronts
Australia sits at a critical crossroads, where the damage from the Left’s long march through all our institutions can either…
What’s going on in the Victorian Liberals?
It seems that some in the Victorian division of the Liberal party want to lose elections more than win them.…
We don’t need right-wing comedy
There can be nothing more stupid than a demand for right-wing comedy. Nonetheless, towards the end of a recent Menzies…
A Wolf in wolf’s clothing
I was sitting at my desk, ruminating on what to make of the whole Michelle Wolf fiasco, when my 14-year-old…
Political life is horrible
Tim Hammond’s decision to quit the Australian parliament has been hailed an honourable and courageous one. With two young children,…
Why the voters gave Hillary poor Marx
What would Karl Marx (unhappy 200th birthday for next Saturday by the way, Beardo) think of a political party that…
Beware of overusing Indigenous business targets
The Indigenous business sector is booming. But recent calls for more targets to boost Aboriginal companies must be treated with…
Can war be just?
The recent furore over the use of “death iconography” by the current Chief of Army raises important questions as to…
Is ignorance spurring a slide to socialism?
The global Ipsos poll released today and published by Fairfax Media, entitled Attitudes towards Socialist Ideals in the 21st Century, shows…
Support for Lifeline waning over “toxic” Clementine Ford
A petition to have extremist feminist activist Clementine Ford removed as a speaker at a Lifeline hosted event is gathering…
A sugar tax is another attack on freedom and personal responsibility
Won’t somebody please think of the adults? If there’s one thing we know well in our great southern continent, it’s…
Are we really only kept afloat by immigration, mate?
It just seems like a year ago that Scott Morrison handed down the Commonwealth budget and brought joy and early…
The rise and rise of intolerance
How can anyone watch the debate on anti-Semitism in the House of Commons and not wonder at the madness that…
No, Four Corners, Brown Brothers is not moving to Tasmania
When the ABC ran its Four Corners program on climate change some weeks back, it had as its theme farmers,…
Cut the losses on Gonski 2.0 review and quietly back away
You have to feel just a little bit sorry for Simon Birmingham. The federal education minister was effectively shoe-horned into…
Mental health: the Gillard effect
When Julia Gillard beamed as she took over Beyond Blue, collective Aussie jaws hit the floor. Could lefty elites really…
A Corbyn in the capital’s ALP?
Last week in affluent, well-educated, politely spoken, avowedly Labor and impeccably PC Canberra, someone wrote something in a small throwaway…
God and man (and emotional support animals) at Yale
The Yale News reports (yes, Yale, not kale): If you walked into the Grace Hopper College courtyard last year, you…
Never mind the bollards
I am from Melbourne and I am a bollard lover following the 12 Steps Program to recovery. Since last year’s…
