Two perfect kicks from Johnny Sexton destroyed England’s rugby’s dream
Which would you least like to see coming towards you? An Uber driverless car, Ant McPartlin in his black Mini…
Dear Mary: How can I tell a friend her mole is disgusting?
Q. Recently, during a stay in a luxurious mountain hotel in Italy, and having hurt my knee skiing, I was…
Too good for the kleptocrats of Knightsbridge: Harry’s Dolce Vita reviewed
In 2007 Mikhael Gorbachev starred in a Louis Vuitton advert. He was driven past the Berlin Wall with Louis Vuitton…
Why should the body be immune from being hacked about?
A 72-year-old Australian called Stelarc, the BBC reported, has an ear growing from one arm. He hopes to connect a…
Aussie tax slayer
According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website, Australia will contribute $43.8 million to the ‘Palestinian Territories’ in…
Browned off at the ballot box
Popular concerns over immigration, ignored by politicians across the Western world, will at best be expressed at the ballot box,…
Brown study
I sometimes think that if we did not have Aboriginals in Australia, we would have had to invent them. They…
Simon Collins
Ireland beat Australia to marriage equality by five years, and with a Yes victory every bit as resounding as ours.…
Coal’s here to stay
There is a modern misconception that a modern economy will become less reliant on energy. A word association test on…
Little Rocket Man and the Obama of Asia
Suddenly Kim Jong-un is a good guy. He sends his sister to the Pyeongchang Olympics to work her icy charms…
The new great Australian silence
In Down Among The Wild Men, the anthropologist, John Greenway, describes the process by which Aboriginal adolescents from the Western…
The perils of surrendering sovereignty
Britain’s period of surrendering key responsibilities to the European Union is drawing to a close, but the experience serves as…
A new Marshall Plan, please
A Marshall Plan is needed for war-torn South Australia devastated by decades of green warfare and lawfare, welfare, destruction of…
ACO at the Barbican
As Australians, we have a need to be recognised ‘overseas’. International tours by Australian performing arts groups have been an…
Lesson One: don’t get caught
The dismissal of the FBI’s second-in-charge, Andrew McCabe, was not by President Trump, as several Australian outlets who bothered to…
Window display
On too many fronts, the Turnbull government’s embarrassing timidity is constantly on display. It is a timorousness fuelled as much…
Australian letters
Rocky road Sir: Piers Ackerman is either indulging in a piece of tabloid provocation or he is on the rocky…
Santa Sabina school’s “religious revolution”
The trousers were the tip of the iceberg at Sydney Catholic girls schools Santa Sabina College. With the trousers down,…
Since when was common sense discrimination?
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton’s remarks about white South African farmers, including possibly granting them special immigration consideration, evoked charges…
Should Australia engage more with China?
We live in an age of unprecedented geopolitical upheaval in the Asia Pacific. The American and Western hegemony in the…
Stephen Hawking and the limits of knowledge
Stephen Hawking, the physicist and cosmologist who died last week, is now set to have his ashes interred alongside those…
Why we won’t get into ASEAN any time soon
Indonesians, especially Jakartans – have a wicked sense of humour. Their biting jokes, fine-tuned by years of authoritarian rule, were…
Mass migration and the weakening of the West
Douglas Murray’s provocative article in The Weekend Australian ‘Add new migrants and stir carefully’ discusses the challenges of mass migration…
Clothes maketh the wo/man
There’s an unofficial competition where I live that mostly teenage girls engage in, as to which school has the worst…
