Top three lefty unis
From the sandstones to the concrete monstrosities, Australia’s university students are returning to lecture halls and classrooms in coming weeks.…
Brown study
Malcolm Turnbull is wrong about the effect of his proposed new morals code to stop ministers from philandering in the…
Business/Robbery etc
The Turnbull government’s survival depends on a far more serious internal battle than whether Barnaby should keep his fly done…
Bye bye Nats?
Some could use the Barnaby Joyce Affair as an opportunity to kick the National party while it’s down… so let’s…
Minding the gap
Once again the start of the federal parliamentary year has been marked by what has become an annual ritual. The…
What is the point of Cory Bernardi?
Let me be honest. I don’t really see the point of Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives (‘AC’) party as presently configured.…
Paying for steel jobs
Indian billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is now in the same category as American entrepreneur Elon Musk in that any absurd idea…
Australian diary
For some, it’s spiders or public speaking. For others, it’s being un-friended on Facebook or Jar Jar Binks returning to…
Rinat Shaham (Carmen) & Marcelo Puente (Don José)
There was an intriguing surprise at a fine performance of Carmen last week; the surtitles carrying the translation of the…
Aux bien pensants
Proscribe parallelism not promiscuity By proscribing sexual relations with ministerial staff and through his public moral condemnation of Nationals leader…
Bucking Barnaby
Something doesn’t quite add up. On the one hand, the Prime Minister’s spouse, Lucy Turnbull, proudly announces via a soft…
Their ABC: at it again
And here we were in the reality-based community thinking it would be hard for even the ABC to trump last…
In defence of Tasmania
It feels a bit odd that someone like me, a native-born Canadian who has lived in Queensland for the last…
Barnaby’s concrete-assisted trolley ride crashes to an end
“Perhaps the biggest scandal in Australia political history? Made only by the fact it was managed like a shopping trolley…
Does anyone in politics do any work?
Sigh. Another day, more sex scandals in politics to finish off an eye-rollingly unproductive week. What exactly is the brief…
Why Australian Conservatives will not split the centre-right
Go or stay? That is the question for disenchanted Liberals pondered by The Spectator earlier this month. Nationals’ supporters may…
Riding the dragon with Bob Carr
The ‘little dragons’ of southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Thailand, Laos and Indonesia share the same problem Australia has with…
Joyce is still showing more leadership than Turnbull
Anger being hurled at Barnaby Joyce is misplaced; even now he’s showing more leadership than Turnbull could ever dream of.…
Workers lose from One Nation weakness
One Nation positions itself as pro-Australia but the party’s opposition to company tax cuts shows it is short-sighted and weak…
Haven’t we paid Hillary enough already?
Sleep easy, Queenslanders. You’re already laden with ferals protesting Adani. Tasmania, you’re the birthplace of the Greens. Our sympathies. Western…
The fallout from Poland’s misguided Holocaust law
My grandfather made the lifesaving decision to leave Poland for Australia shortly before World War II broke out. However, for…
Why do feminists hate femininity?
It’s only February, and already the wheels of the online confected outrage cycle are well and truly turning. In an…
Liberty and America’s gun culture
Freedom is not an unalloyed good. It allows people both to flourish and to make mistakes. Freedom, then, can never…
Sex and the capital city
From the large headings, multiple columns and country themed caricatures appearing in newspapers spread across kitchen benches and shaken out…
Danger: America dreaming.
The other day The Wall Street Journal carried an op-ed praising America’s immigration project written by two academics, Tellis and…
