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Market economist confidently predicts direction of white noise process

20 March 2017 1:24 pm

Sydney-based market economist Nathan Hadley has  confidently predicted a strong week ahead for pound sterling in the face of overwhelming…

Bannon 2024

20 March 2017 7:38 am

BOSTON, UNITED STATES — The House Freedom Caucus is up in arms about President Trump’s Obamacare reform bill. While he…

Alive but not alive

19 March 2017 5:54 pm

CEO Greg Hywood insists the print editions of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will continue for a while…

In praise of the grande dame

19 March 2017 1:44 pm

Last week I attended an event in Brisbane that brought out lovers of art, local personalities, philanthropists, and many considered…

Earth has not anything to show more fair…

19 March 2017 8:39 am

Over at Breitbart’s London Bureau, there’s a roughish, floppy-haired giant of a fogey named Oliver J.J. Lane. Red-pants’d and boater-hat’d,…

A glass half-full

18 March 2017 9:20 am

One of my first authentic Australian ‘cultural’ experiences, years before I made it my home, was Barry Humphries’ good mate…

Dr Di Natale’s odd prescription for employment

17 March 2017 7:06 am

Richard Di Natale’s inner-city industrial relations thought bubble is precisely the sort of thing you’d expect from a federal Greens…

Sorry Matilda, I don’t need no trigger warning

16 March 2017 5:39 pm

New Matilda has just published a lovely little piece by Michael Brull spitting on the grave of Bill Leak, entitled RIP Bill…

Campus censorship ratchets up

16 March 2017 1:18 pm

Free intellectual inquiry is under serious threat at universities across the Anglosphere. At the very places designed to inspire a battle of…

The great renewable energy swindle

16 March 2017 7:22 am

As with all swindles, the great renewable energy swindle has ended with the sad realisation that we’ve been had. Having…

In defence of the Romanovs: the centenary of the February Revolution

15 March 2017 4:08 pm

A century ago today, as the Imperial Train sat impounded at a provincial station 180 miles from Petrograd, Russia’s last…

Left-wing intolerance must be called out

15 March 2017 11:02 am

The Twitterati outcry over two democratically elected Members of Parliament discussing important national issues over a beer shows the absolute…

Daniel Andrews: one-term blunder?

15 March 2017 7:03 am

Things have been grim for the Andrews ALP government for some time. Victorians voted in the Andrews Labor Government off…

My Bill

14 March 2017 2:25 pm

I met Bill Leak just the once. It was at a dinner party; my old boss was heading back overseas after a wonderful term of service…

Punk rock conservatism? Pretty vacant…

14 March 2017 7:35 am

My dear darling Daisy, Thank you for your lovely letter. Please understand, when I say you’re not a conservative, it’s…

It’s quality all the way at Michelle Guthrie’s ABC

13 March 2017 8:10 pm

Broadcasting: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Michelle Guthrie. Her five-year contract: to explore strange new worlds, to…

Beer, the bible, boycotts and bigotry

13 March 2017 5:02 pm

Ok, let me clear my glass from the outset, I don’t drink beer. And no, it has nothing to do…

It was the Hanson wot won it

13 March 2017 1:15 pm

So the WA Liberal Government did a deal with Pauline Hanson and it cost them the election. Right? Labor can’t…

Have we outgrown Yes, Minister?

13 March 2017 8:32 am

Part of the implicit deal between the ruling class and the ruled is that people are willing to overlook moderate…

The bleakest death of the year

12 March 2017 4:18 pm

Once in lower primary school I foolishly played keepies with my favourite marble, a large, sapphire coloured “Tom Bowler”, the…

Thank you, Colin Barnett

12 March 2017 12:27 pm

As the dust settles on the Western Australian election result, let’s not forget that for 8 ½ years Colin Barnett…

Never mind the bollocks, here’s the punk rock right

12 March 2017 8:15 am

The term ‘conservatism is the new punk’ has been thrown around a lot recently. Some have embraced the notion; happy to celebrate…

Is 18c now still just a fringe issue?

11 March 2017 5:33 pm

The sudden death of Bill Leak has been harrowing. You only realise how much you rely on cultural warriors when…

Fight back for Bill with a free speech commissioner

11 March 2017 2:01 pm

The left more than evidently know how to use the power of the state to achieve their political objectives. The…

Goodbye, Uncle Bill

11 March 2017 8:04 am

While Bill Leak’s talents as an artist and satirist are plain to see, the man also had a great gift…