WA votes amid a tax and spend addiction

1 March 2017 11:52 am

The Western Australian state election is looming around the corner with almost two weeks until the state government is reshuffled…

Fake news meets 18c

1 March 2017 9:08 am

Earlier this month Professor Andrew Jakubowitz of the taxpayer-created Cyber Racism and Community Resilience Research Group attempted to debunk a…

Hey guys, check out David Morrison’s latest

28 February 2017 9:09 pm

He’s become the gift which keeps giving, though, like a spinster aunt’s annual Christmas socks and hankies, it’s a gift…

Chicken Little on workplace relations — and plain old chicken

28 February 2017 7:15 pm

There’s been more chicken than Colonel Sanders himself could handle in Canberra this week, as the debate about Sunday penalty rates…

The people versus Milo Yiannopoulos

28 February 2017 2:47 pm

The furore surrounding the curious case of Milo Yiannopoulos has blasted through the media. Journalists, commentators, and the Twitterati are calling for Milo…

Newspoll: the Liberals, not just Turnbull, are the problem

28 February 2017 11:10 am

With the latest Newspoll showing the Coalition trailing Labor 45 to 55 2PP and One Nation at ten percent otherwise, a mob…

Language, law and liberty

28 February 2017 7:18 am

Law and language share a critical relationship in preserving freedom of expression. One of the peculiarities of totalitarian societies is…

Newspoll listening suggestions for the Liberal Party

27 February 2017 12:06 pm

So what about that Newspoll, hey? Not much hope there for your average Liberal backbencher. Quite a few frontbenchers, too.…

Milo: the assassins have failed

27 February 2017 7:28 am

The sanctimonious Left are in their dizzy element. “The Milo show is over,” they laugh, dancing on the shredded paper…

The Liberal Party is beyond help

26 February 2017 4:08 pm

It probably doesn’t matter what I think, but the best course now is for Cory Bernardi and the Australian Conservatives…

Wherein Tony Abbott answers some questions…

26 February 2017 1:28 pm

Well, well, well. Just the other week, I was crying out for someone to tell us how Burkeans within the…

Is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

26 February 2017 9:34 am

After 75 weeks of indolence and drift Paul Kelly did his level best in The Weekend Australian to pick the…

Greg Craven’s strange nightmares

25 February 2017 5:00 pm

Professor Greg Craven seems to have had some awful nightmares about the collapse of constitutional government in Australia. But neither…

Keysar Trad: where are the feminists?

25 February 2017 9:34 am

Listen carefully. Responses trickling in after Keysar Trad’s comments about violence against women have been extremely telling. Trad, president of…

The feminist religion? How we laughed.

25 February 2017 9:00 am

Sometimes, Pauline Hanson’s ‘Please explain’ and the Senate’s role as House of Review achieve perfect congruence. Last week, in Question…

The danger of moderate Islam

25 February 2017 9:00 am

Prior to the World Trade Centre attacks, no one would have cared that I was a Muslim. My ethnic heritage…

Conservatism with a revolutionary heart

25 February 2017 9:00 am

Modern-day leftism, which is the bohemian spirit of 1968 codified and institutionalised, dominates almost every aspect of Western societies, not…

Steal their clothes

25 February 2017 9:00 am

The Left now thinks it’s nailed one of the most irritating thorns in its flesh, the flamboyant conservative polemicist Milo…

Business/Robbery etc

25 February 2017 9:00 am

As punishment for voting last week to correct (in part) his damaging job-destroying two year legislated delay in fully implementing…

Tough love

25 February 2017 9:00 am

Frank Martin is one of those composers whose work seems to survive only by virtue of constantly renewed neglect. His…

Comic effect

25 February 2017 9:00 am

Borag Thungg, Earthlets! If those words mean something to you, then congratulations — you are leading a good life. If…

Olden but golden

25 February 2017 9:00 am

This weekend Brian Matthew will present his last-ever Sounds of the 60s show on Radio 2. Now 88, he’s been…

Occupational hazard

25 February 2017 9:00 am

Rival law-enforcement agencies arguing about which of them should investigate a murder has, of course, been a staple of crime…

Let’s talk about sex

25 February 2017 9:00 am

What does it take to become a prostitute? Youth, beauty, courage, sexual allure, a love of money, a need for…

Consider this…

25 February 2017 9:00 am

FGM: It’s whose fault? African immigrant, Khadiija Gbla, of No FGM Australia accused ‘the health system in Australia’ of ‘failing’…