Gays, trans and damned statistics
Australia’s 17th census, conducted in 2016, was the first since the exercise began in 1911 to offer respondents the option…
No sex please, we’re progressive
The Prime Minister’s recent puritanical edicts regarding relationships between ministers and their staff do not have roots in conservative Christianity,…
The inequality of Mercy
Now here’s some news to gladden the heart of everyone who takes the recent Royal Commission’s line in deploring the…
Bonerby, Beetrooter or Barnyard
We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the Australian public in one of its periodical fits of morality. —…
My sole desire c1500 from The Lady and the Unicorn series Musée de Cluny
Almost a festival of Prosper Mérimée: at the Opera House we have performances of Carmen which is based on his…
Abbott’s winning agenda
‘The government which stopped the boats can’t slow the planes’, concluded Michael McLaren, the Macquarie Media Network’s rising young star.…
Trump, Turnbull, McCormack
Conservative and mainstream Australians can only sit idly by and watch the ‘Trump revolution’ with a mixture of envy and…
Michaelia Cash: no credit
Last year I was invited to a private fundraising dinner for a backbench Liberal senator featuring then minister for employment,…
Marriage a la mode and how infidelity became everyday
Marriage as an institution has changed greatly since the introduction of no-fault divorce in 1975. Quite apart from the recent…
Gender politics or progress? Your choice
At some point, gender politics is going to have to calmly take a seat and let progress actually prevail. On…
The politics is proven, but is the science?
Work conducted by highly respected NASA scientist Roy Spencer estimates a maximum increase of 1.54°C in global temperatures from greenhouse gases, less than half that…
The real problem with Michaelia’s Cash outburst
Oops. Michaelia Cash committed the cardinal sin. She dropped the façade fem-folk have worked hard to concoct, that women are…
Emma Alberici scores top Marx
If you’ve been holidaying in Greece and missed the recent fiasco surrounding Emma Alberici, the chief economics correspondent at the…
The Guardian’s begging bowl blitz
Ever since The Guardian set up shop locally Australians have been treated to the excitement of a media outlet that…
Silent – or stealth – invasion
The first jolt for readers of Clive Hamilton’s polemic new book ‘Silent Invasion – China’s Influence in Australia’ is the…
Economics in one lesson
Just over 70 years ago, economist Henry Hazlitt wrote an economics textbook, Economics in One Lesson, which is still regarded…
The great immigration deceit
Shortly after Angela Merkel’s nation-shaping decision to allow over a million migrants to enter Germany in 2015, her ministerial team…
Academic doesn’t hate Israel enough shock horror fury
More tragi-comedy from the letters section of that perpetual yearbook of the Class of 1968 (Head Boy – Tariq Ali), The London…
Threats of Aboriginal terrorism will do irreparable harm
Most Australians are pretty generous. They want to do the right thing by this country’s first inhabitants, especially when it…
Recycling is rubbish
Recycling is rubbish. Not in the sense that the stuff we recycle is rubbish – which it is, of course…
Because only the right do nasty, wicked things, hey?
The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher is worried about the power of twenty-first century lynch mobs: Even if you think the NRA deserves what…
How government destroyed cheap electricity in Australia
You know something is wrong when a country with over 33 per cent of the world’s Uranium and abundant reserves…
The radical politics of Black Panther
Black Panther opened in Australian cinemas recently and it certainly does not disappoint. It’s the eighteenth movie of the Marvel…
Mr Trumble comes back from Washington
Monday morning the VIP aircraft carrying the returning PM’s entourage touched down on home soil and Australians began to wonder,…
Billy Graham: a titan of faith and freedom
Reflecting on his wartime leadership, Winston Churchill remarked that with the nation having the lion’s heart, he “had the luck…
