Christmas diary
My earliest memory of a Christmas holiday is of driving up to Darwin with Dad in his first car, a…
Mea culpa: Abuse angst grips churches
All hell has broken loose on Australian churches now the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has…
Conservatism is more than Milo’s mockery
Unlike the parent Speccie in the UK, the Australian rendition has decided to take on the mantle of Milo Yiannopoulos.…
The Indigenous Procurement Policy makes ticking boxes easy
The federal government’s Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP) is regularly touted as ‘supercharging’ the Indigenous business sector. But the flawed way…
China girl
Before I begin, I should give something of a personal ‘disclosure’. I am currently the associate minister of a Christian…
Dasher is only the iceberg’s tip
A Labor parliamentarian who, it is revealed, has links to a foreign power that attempts to retrieve information on Australia’s…
AGL: impoverishing the nation to boost its bottom line
The supporters of renewable energy continue to claim – as they have for the past 30 years – that wind/solar…
Want to fight human trafficking? Ditch plain packaging
December 1, 2017, marked the five-year anniversary of mandated plain packaging of tobacco products in Australia. Despite being touted as…
Another triumph from The Age
Have a look at the lead story in today’s Age — then have a look at the ad at the…
Presenting… The 2017 Nanny Awards
The Nannies, as we call the annual Centre for Independent Studies awards, go to the government’s most absurd attempts to…
Who’s afraid of the fabulous Milo?
It’s been a week since Milo Yiannopoulos graced the shores of Australia with his perpetually fabulous presence, leaving a trail…
Forget safe spaces, here’s a new solution for the offended
We hear a lot about the need for safe spaces these days. In this article I discuss another type of…
By-bye Senator Dastardly – and hello Senator Sexy?
Senator –- Sino-tor? –- Sam Dastyari today pulled the plug on his career and resigned to spend more time with his family…
A Bennelong bombshell will leave Turnbull terminal
The Bennelong by-election is likely to lead to a change of leadership in the Liberal Party which if wisely done,…
Post-truth ethics
“Post-truth” is in the news: The Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year 2016 was post-truth – an adjective defined as ‘relating to or…
Bill Shorten finds religion(s)
An indication of Labor’s concern that in the same-sex marriage vote, the ‘No’s’ were concentrated in mainly migrant-populated suburbs, was…
What’s going to change in Australia with same-sex marriage?
In the space of just a few decades, homosexuality has gone from being a criminal offence to a psychological disorder,…
The Clementine Ford mystery solved
Did some new truth in advertising law come into force on December 1? Has the Press Council issued a new…
Israel bashing: like porn for the left
This is like porn for much of the left today: The Zionist colonialists are just the latest warlords violently conquering…
ADF: the Australian Defence Farce
If you still have any uncertainty as to whether or not the Australian Defence Force has been ideologically hijacked by…
Returning jihadis must be brought to justice
At first sight, the evidence presented in David Anderson’s report into the four terror attacks committed between March and June…
DUP’s 11th-hour objection throws Brexit deal into chaos
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, was thrown into a political crisis, along with the negotiations for Brexit, during a…
Max Hastings’ Diary: Historian Sir Michael Howard and a tale of E.M. Forster and sardines
Lunch with the great Sir Michael Howard, 95 last week. During a conversation about BBC1’s Howards End, he said: ‘I…
Stolen spikes: the strange history of the Irish border
Border skirmishes What did the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic used to look like? — In 1923 a…
Like Thasos or Naxos in ancient Greece, Brexit Britain must be punished
Since the EU does not want the UK to leave and will do everything to stop it leaving, it is…
