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Bondi massacre: can the waves ever wash away our government’s failure?
What happened in Sydney over the weekend was all too predictable. On Sunday, Chabad of Bondi organised an event for…
A wake-up call for Australia
Under this government’s leadership, the Bondi attack was inevitable
You can’t share a country without sharing a culture
Assimilation is a dirty word in modern Australia
This is not the Australia I came to join
Hate speech laws and censorship would be a huge mistake
How Australia become a sanctuary for the Islamist global insurgency
While Australia sent over 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan – with 41 killed, hundreds wounded, even more with invisible scars –…
After Bondi, it is time to take on Islamist antisemitism
I remember it like yesterday. The airmail letter came from Bondi Beach. Over 40 years earlier, my childhood school friend…
We failed you, Anne Frank
‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’ – Anne Frank…
Why are the Australian’s moderators more timid than its writers?
I have been struck by the striking contrast once again in the robust discussion that one can find in the…
Gun laws and the helpless horror of Bondi
Would even tougher gun laws have saved lives at Bondi?
The paradox of tolerance manifests at Bondi Beach
December 14 was the darkest day for Australia in my 30-year lifetime. Islamic extremism struck at the heart of the…
Breaking the obedience barrier
The attacks at Bondi were shocking, but they were not surprising.
The threat we refuse to name
There are dangers a society can screen for and dangers it cannot. Metal detectors catch knives. Infrared cameras detect weapons.…
The tide has gone out at Bondi. Will it ever rise again?
Yesterday’s tragedy at Bondi has hit hard. As the gravity and horror sinks in, we will all feel much worse…
The struggle against terror and extremism
After the uprising of radical leftist forces and extremist Islamist groups in 1979 and their seizure of power in Iran,…
When Chanukah light meets Australian darkness
At 6:47 pm on the first night of Chanukah, Bondi Beach felt unrecognisable. For a moment, it recalled something far…
Old hatreds have infiltrated Australia, and we let them in
From Cologne: I’ve just been to the City Museum in Cologne where the collection attempts to grapple with Germany’s past…
The mysterious assailants at Bondi
Australia is a censorious and increasingly secretive nation. In such an environment, clarity matters, especially in moments of public trauma.…
The night Australia died
The massacre on Bondi Beach has shaken our nation
Australia’s distant thunder
Would Canberra march to Europe’s drums?
Egypt’s blind spot
The role Cairo played in making Gaza’s war possible
Trump for dummies
Misunderstanding Trump is an existential threat to Australia
Nature positive (?)
A triumph of regulation pretending to be conservation
The subtle dangers of postmodern ideology
Our prison is looking more like Brave New World than 1984
Pauline Hanson’s burqa protest: a stand for free speech and national identity
In a dramatic, defiant move, Senator Pauline Hanson entered the Australian Senate Chamber wearing a full black head covering known…
Barnaby Joyce did not leave the Coalition
Australia is entering a realignment that the political class still struggles to interpret
