Helen Dale

Why Australia’s Voice vote failed

16 October 2023 12:09 am

Since 1999, asking how many referendums Australia has had – then how many have passed – has been a pair…

What did the Brits ever do for us?

15 April 2023 9:00 am

A decade ago, American sociologist Michael Hechter quipped that ‘good alien government may be better than bad native government,’ a…

Ex-pats explaining Australia

13 November 2021 9:00 am

Victoria has embarrassed us all

Postmodernism meets the hotel quarantine

29 August 2020 9:00 am

Or how Diversity beats PPE

The Silo Effect

1 August 2020 9:00 am

How cancel culture is dumbing us all down

Newton’s 3rd Law of Statues

20 June 2020 9:00 am

Or the Darwin Awards by Proxy

The conspiravirus

30 May 2020 9:00 am

From Boris’s resurrection to Bill Gates and 5G

Trev’s Islamophobic vampire

21 March 2020 9:00 am

A noted progressive gets bitten by his own monster

Allow us to check your thinking

29 February 2020 9:00 am

On Harry Miller’s important win against Britain’s thought police

Cancel culture

20 July 2019 9:00 am

Everyone who hasn’t spent the last six months under a rock knows about Israel Folau and how he’s raised northwards…

The public humiliation diet

1 June 2019 9:00 am

Last month, the UK’s version of Jerry Springer, The Jeremy Kyle Show, was cancelled after a guest suicided post-recording. Steve…

The climate cult’s human shield

4 May 2019 9:00 am

Last Tuesday evening, I tweeted the following: ‘Can the Beeb arrange for Andrew Neil to interview this Greta Thunberg character?…

Art Notes

28 July 2018 9:00 am

Every now and again, a friend of mine holds a ‘what’s your unpopular opinion?’ discussion in a club we jointly…

Writers are not moral guides

30 June 2018 9:00 am

Like Dorothy Parker, I have a decent number of grey hairs from my dealings with the intelligentsia. I’ve had my…

Adventures on Thought Crime Island

21 April 2018 9:00 am

Britain has broken out the banhammer and is coming after your favourite comedians. It’s also decided words matter more than…

Bonerby, Beetrooter or Barnyard

3 March 2018 9:00 am

We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the Australian public in one of its periodical fits of morality. —…

Author’s diary

11 November 2017 9:00 am

Author tours are funny things, especially when unexpected. 12 months ago, I’d given up on getting Kingdom of the Wicked…

Same sex notes

9 September 2017 9:00 am

When I was a girl, my mother used to say she didn’t like standing on the moral high ground because…

Sicilian diary

26 August 2017 9:00 am

‘Muslims will not blow anyone up here,’ the proprietor of my Siracusa local assures me, ‘we have our own people…

The feminist religion? How we laughed.

25 February 2017 9:00 am

Sometimes, Pauline Hanson’s ‘Please explain’ and the Senate’s role as House of Review achieve perfect congruence. Last week, in Question…

The feminist religion? How we laughed.

23 February 2017 3:00 pm

Sometimes, Pauline Hanson’s ‘Please explain’ and the Senate’s role as House of Review achieve perfect congruence. Last week, in Question…

Stung!

28 January 2017 9:00 am

Centrelink – as everyone in Australia knows – shat the bed last month, leaving the government (and particularly Christian Porter)…

Stung!

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

Centrelink – as everyone in Australia knows – shat the bed last month, leaving the government (and particularly Christian Porter)…

Attack of the Offendotrons

7 January 2017 9:00 am

It’s impossible to ignore the story of Greig Tonkins, the Taronga Park zookeeper who punched a giant roo to save…

Attack of the Offendotrons

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

It’s impossible to ignore the story of Greig Tonkins, the Taronga Park zookeeper who punched a giant roo to save…