Energy policy: the meatgrinder of the poor
The outstanding success of the South Australian government of giving their people the highest power prices in the world is…
Big government’s war on young Australians
The major parties, unions and the bureaucracy have declared economic war on young people which threatens to create an invisible…
A politically incorrect three-point plan for government
Same-sex marriage off the agenda? Here is my politically incorrect list of what any right-of-centre political party in Australia needs…
Christian Leaders oppose assisted dying, The Age plays shocked
The Open Letter from Christian Leaders to Premier Daniel Andrews on assisted dying has drawn criticism from ‘the usual suspects’.…
When campus claims of sex abuse meet politics
For nearly thirty years I served as a university college head in four different institutions. Before that I was myself…
The republican suicide squad
When Bill Shorten gave the keynote address the Australian Republican Movement annual dinner last month, Peter Fitzsimons gushed at how…
United in idiocy
The two major political parties may well be goofing around playing a tag game of dumb and dumber at the…
The Dean Smith Five
Watching Liberal senator Dean Smith on the ABC’s Insiders on Sunday morning, I was impressed by the quiet and dignified…
What would Menzies make of marriage equality?
What would Sir Robert Menzies have made of attempts to conscript his name to the cause of redefining marriage in…
Somewhere in Sri Lanka, someone is making something.
Researching history with the hope that your research will eventually turn itself into a book can take you places. It’s…
The Age’s big week
It’s been a big week for Fairfax Media and The Age — a big week in their decline. First there…
Quotidian
In Competition No. 3009 you were invited to submit a poem about a domestic object. I set this challenge…
Dear Mary
Q. I’m shortly to host a very large family gathering. Everyone will be related to the same ancestor, so we…
Taking Melbourne’s temperature
The city of Melbourne has one of the longest surface-temperature records for anywhere in Australia, stretching from 1856 to the…
Chinese whispers at the ABC
Amedia fracas broke out this past week over Julia Baird’s reports on the ABC about links between Christian teachings and…
Tax addict
At Australian Labor party conferences in New South Wales and Queensland last weekend, Bill Shorten proclaimed himself the Robin Hood…
Not such an ‘unnatural’ alliance
Some conservatives appear puzzled at the alliance between the nihilistic Left and Muslim jihadism, between a culture apparently obsessed with…
Business/Robbery etc
Boris Johnson’s Australian charm offensive will not unscramble the egg. Nor will seeking to love-up the old Commonwealth after divorcing…
Up the pointy end
Bill Shorten has ramped up Labor’s efforts to stoke envy among the many by maligning the success of the few,…
Crunch time
For anyone considering a career in economic forecasting, the Bank of England’s inflation report for August 2007 ought to be…
Letters
No reason for subsidies Sir: For believers in free enterprise like me, it was hugely disappointing to read that Sir…
Australian notes
Inequality is the human condition, Bill Whaddaya mean by ‘tackling inequality’, Bill? Don’t you know that inequality is built…
Gaggle of gays
It beggars belief that at a time when all Liberal guns should be squarely focussed on the destructive ‘tax and…
Civilised air travel? Pigs might fly
Does anyone actually enjoy flying any more? I know I don’t. I realised recently, while anxiously repacking my tiny carry-on…
Road to nowhere
When I heard the government’s announcement that petrol and diesel cars are to be banned from 2040, I resorted, as…
