Pride and priorities
Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, used to be thought of as the King’s Cross of Melbourne. It was the heart of…
All the news that’s fit to spin
Idly watching the ABC’s idea of news one evening and hearing for the thousandth time how man’s greed and indifference…
Barry did a naughty thing
It is a truth that ought to be universally acknowledged that the one thing missing from modern comedy festivals is…
Compensating abuse
Here’s a piece of news you won’t get from the ABC or the ex-Fairfax press. It concerns the gold-and-wool-rich provincial…
Gaia’s Juniors
Grumpy adults who complain about the fecklessness of youthful ‘snowflakes’ will be gladdened that at least some of the young…
Fall of the House of Adler
‘Look here, what’s this book on my desk about Al Capone?’ ‘Why, Vice-Chancellor, it’s one of our flagship publications from…
What if it were Auxit?
Imagine if after the 1999 referendum when a majority of Australians voted against a republic the government decided that it…
Alice in Leftist-land
‘There’s no use trying,’ says Alice to the Queen in Through the Looking-Glass, ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ No? Clearly…
Foreign aid, feminist propaganda
‘Where are the women business leaders in Vietnam?’. It sounds like a question at a pub trivia night. The answer…
The bishop thrown under the bus
Philip Wilson should be a hero to everyone who cares about justice. With little encouragement beyond the determination to prove…
Milo’s hope and the Latin pope
There’s a long tradition in this country of washed-up troupers from overseas turning up on our shores for a gig,…
Forget the ABC, go for the three Rs
Whoever is eventually appointed to run the ABC, it’s Ultimo to a brick there’ll be no change in the corporation’s…
What did you not learn at school today?
It’s hard for a student at university these days, with all the awful things they (that’s the authorised pronoun for…
Three little words that mean ‘shut up!’
Racist’, ‘sexist’ and ‘phobia’, the last one with various prefixes, are the lexical building blocks of leftist discourse. Three little…
The Treaty of Spring Street
History in the old sense of events and names isn’t much taught in our schools any more, such history as…
Don’t call me Madam
‘Respect women’ shouts a giant hoarding sponsored by Victoria’s wastrel Labor government (the one that squandered $300 million on not…
Closing down sale
When an historic Melbourne church went up in flames three years ago, the actress Rachel Griffiths, who’d made her First…
SOS for SGMs
If you were trapped at an upper window of a burning building and a fireman appeared at the top of…
Zhe who must be obeyed
In the memorable words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (no, students, you’ll have to Google him, old white guy with a…
Long she’s reigned over us
The past, wrote L. P. Hartley in The Go-Between, is a foreign country. Even a decade as relatively recent as…
Time to rise again
I bought a different brand of diary for this year, and it has dropped Easter. Easter Day is plain Sunday…
To drain the swamp, first pull the plug
It is a striking fact, but little acknowledged, that the Left in this country is largely funded by the taxpayer.…
The inequality of Mercy
Now here’s some news to gladden the heart of everyone who takes the recent Royal Commission’s line in deploring the…
Well out of it
Of all the absurd things that have been said about Brexit, Chris Patten’s comment in his Spectator Australia interview with…
Crossing the Jordan
The ABC, for all its tax-voracious ‘local content’, loves showing British programmes – which is just as well because with…
