The diminishing role of the parent
Why age limits on social media are not the solution
Constitutional monarchy: a beacon of stability in an Age of Upheaval
The debate over Australia’s constitutional monarchy has been brought into the spotlight as we reflect on the success of King…
Livin’ on a prayer, Victoria!
The 10,912 Victorians who signed a petition to retain the recital of the Lord’s Prayer in our state Parliament each…
Victorians will pay more and get less
The Allan government’s first Budget was business as usual, but in Victoria that’s nothing to be glad about
Becoming cashless, but at what cost?
Cash is no longer King. Long before the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to remove the monarch from our…
Women, back to the barricades!
International Women’s Day reminds us of the challenges, successes and milestones in our history, and the transformation that has enabled…
Eiffel power – France’s nuclear charge
21 world leaders pledge to triple nuclear energy capacity from 2020 by 2050
The death of democracy? Victoria’s hush-hush Indigenous agreements
Australians are being asked to open their hearts – to be generous – to vote ‘Yes’ to something greater than…
Just like a Danish pastry, Australia will become a flaky composition of treaties
Here’s looking at you, Western Australia. Your Aboriginal Heritage Act has taken our national attention. We sit watching the unfolding of your…
Who Is The Victorian Of The Year?
What sane Victorian didn’t do a double take when it was announced that the state’s former Chief Health Officer, Brett…
Forgetting the forgotten
For a few days now, I have been thinking about the following sentences: ‘I do not believe that the real…
Cancelling our crucible day
Just one day is all most people want. One day to celebrate Australia. One day to say, as Nino Culotta…
Victorians go hungry, Andrews gets bigger billboards
The Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, has been back from China for several weeks now. He’s still to advise what he…
Daniel Andrews’ greatest hits
A broken record couldn’t be so familiar. In front of the cameras, the Victorian Premier’s song is now a chorus…
We are all Indigenous somewhere
The Voice is an anathema to a nation that believes in equality – a nation that does not look to…
Victimhood: the inversion of evolution by social stealth
There’s an old saying: It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s what you do about what happens that matters.…
A worm on a hook
For the record, I am energy agnostic. But I know this much: we need to drastically increase the supply of…
Messing with ‘the maths’
It looks like Queensland is about to join most other states in Australia and allow people to change their sex…
A wabi-sabi nation
Australia is a wabi-sabi nation: perfect in all its imperfections
Anything but Christianity! (Or mum and dad)
News that ‘Christmas and Easter will not be celebrated in some childcare centres under new inclusion guidelines’ is, quite extraordinary.…
Victoria: divide and conquer
The Victorian Premier leads by diversion, distraction, and division. He doesn’t answer journalists’ questions – diverting their attention to another…
Victoria: the Upper House matters
Don’t look down on the Upper House Victorian voters have started numbering the boxes to determine who will run the…
The tribe has spoken
Once upon a time, sport was an international language. A child kicking a soccer ball in Argentina could communicate in…
Dam or be damned!
Australia: the land of droughts and flooding rains. Dorothea Mackellar was clearly not just a poet – but a handy…
The lost art of ‘truth-telling’
It was a humbling experience to attend a function in Canberra’s old Parliament House recently to celebrate the 50th Anniversary…
