To understand how far short the Capitol Hill riot falls of any serious standard for insurrection one only needs to…

Twenty-two years ago this year I first published On Line Opinion. We beat Crikey into cyberspace by a month or…

I guess like me you’ve been more than a little shocked at the Republican “insurrection” in the United States. But…

A Twitter incident from Wednesday last week reveals a few interesting things about the Queensland state government and modern politics…

Since World War II Australia has kept secure by paying its premium on the United States-Australia Defence Alliance. This is…

If polls really could foretell the future, rather than just being an imperfect model of the present, then the LNP should currently be cruising…

The calculation error in COVID-19 projections made by the Peter Doherty Institute and incorporated into the National Cabinet response revealed…

Veteran culture commentator Mark Steyn exposed the Republican Party’s general lack of spine when it comes to the culture wars…

While it’s tempting, and even invigorating, to experience a shiver of schadenfreude at the resurgence of COVID-19 in Victoria on…

Is Scott Morrison’s industrial reform agenda a serious attempt at industrial change, or is it #ScottyfromMarketing looking for a mechanism…

PM Scott Morrison echoed Menzies when he claimed the last Australian election for the “quiet Australians” – the C21 equivalent…

Queensland’s recent local government elections, combined with two state by-elections, provide a window into what might happen at the next…

We appear to have seven Australian governments that are paralysed, unable to decide whether they are really “flattening the curve”,…

Congratulations to Boris Johnson. They’ve been comparing him to Churchill, and while it might be a little hyperbolic, this is…

Almost one-third of the players in the State of Origin on Wednesday night refused to sing the national anthem because…

Living with uncertainty is the thing most humans find most difficult. And while it’s virtually impossible to be certain even…

The fall into administration of Queensland company Claypave, established as Rylance Colliery and Brickworks in Ipswich in the 1880s, points…

I’m wondering what a girl named Gladys has got to do to get elected nowadays. Winning Sky News debates is…

Here’s an idea for English and Philosophy teachers for this coming Friday, March 15. Why don’t you do some Socratic…

I originally thought the Financial Services Royal Commission was unnecessary. Then I heard the evidence, and I changed my mind.…

Labor’s two-pronged housing affordability package has them rowing the same boat in both directions, expending a lot of taxpayer dollars…

When Bill Shorten lost the last election he did a victory lap around Australia. He knew that if he could…

In an inversion of the social hierarchy of Yes Minister, it would appear that Australia has at least one courageous…

Advocacy is core business for think tanks, but when does advocacy become propaganda? When the think tank is the grandly…

“It’s the Bjelke-Petersen era again,” is the meme every time a centre-right party moots a policy on just about anything…