Real life
All had gone suspiciously quiet down our little track on the village green, and we had begun to think we…
Pakistan and the power of redemption
The Pakistan supporter was festooned in cream and green, and carried a chalkboard round his neck with the legend: ‘My…
Panic of the playwrights
Earlier this week the Guardian launched ‘Brexit Shorts’, a series of monologues written by Britain’s ‘leading playwrights’ about the aftermath…
Portrait of the week
Home The burnt-out skeleton of Grenfell Tower, the 24-storey block of 127 flats at Latimer Road, west London, became a…
Senator’s inspirational first speech savages welfare traps
‘I remember the first time we found welfare money in our bank account shortly after our arrival in Australia,’ South Australian Senator Lucy…
Gonski 2.0: contrary motion
One of the more annoying exercises when preparing for piano exams was the ‘contrary motion’ scale. The student prepares a…
New record set for tax hike
This must be a new record for the speed of a tax hike. On Monday 19 June, the federal parliament passed legislation implementing the major bank levy.…
Is that tax policy or slapstick comedy?
The relationship between taxpayers and government should be symbiotic – to the mutual benefit of each party. This is certainly…
If it was anyone else, they’d be screaming ‘Racist!’
A new arrival from Africa is scared by a vacuum cleaner. Ha bloody ha. It might have made a gag once…
Hello Triggs-lite, goodbye free speech
It’s clear now that the Coalition government is not only uninterested in the idea of restructuring the bureaucracy, but it also is not even interested…
Letters
May’s convictions Sir: Nick Timothy seeks sympathy by revealing that his ‘loved ones’ are upset by the personal attacks to…
Listen with mother
This week’s column is dedicated to my mother who loved her radio and encouraged us to be listeners. Without her,…
The anti-Australian Ambassador
When our government officially sends Australian abroad to represent and “sell” our country abroad, would it be nice if the…
Dear ‘woe is me’ women brigade, pipe down
From the way leftist media is carrying on, you would think the tax on tampons is two million dollars each month. The Project earlier…
Politicians and political activists cannot sit in judgement
The resignation of Professor David Weisbrot from the Australian Press Council was not necessary. This relates to the controversy concerning the…
#RepublicanLivesMatter
BOSTON, UNITED STATES – Last March I wrote an article about Trump Derangement Syndrome: ‘the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal…
Is it really all smiles for NSW?
Alarm bells should ring when treasurers resort to hyperbole to describe their budget achievements. With Paul Keating in the late…
Why the left fights the family
The Left needs to destroy the family unit to succeed in the long-term. Over the last few years, we have…
The ultimate sin
Vientiane, the capital of Laos, Communist in government, Buddhist in culture has somehow managed to retain layers of pre-Buddhist animism,…
Citizenship: our values are not up for sale
I’ve boycotted ABC’s Q&A program for a number of years, and tuning in at the end of last night’s episode…
What will they Finkel next?
The greatest contribution the Finkel Review makes to Australian public policy may, in fact, be a new verb. From June 2017, to ‘finkel’…
Who’s Little Collin?
Note it down. June 19, 2017. The day the Melbourne Age died of shame. Or should have, if it had…
Misery pundits: why I don’t get modern queer politics
When I was 19, I headed up my University’s ‘Queer Collective’. It was a regional campus and not exactly a…
What sells better? Empowerment or victimhood?
What sells better? Empowerment or victimhood? That garbage pail known as the Melbourne Age couldn’t make up its mind, so…
