Why Australia’s Voice vote failed
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?
A decade ago, American sociologist Michael Hechter quipped that ‘good alien government may be better than bad native government,’ a…
Ex-pats explaining Australia
Victoria has embarrassed us all
Postmodernism meets the hotel quarantine
Or how Diversity beats PPE
The Silo Effect
How cancel culture is dumbing us all down
Newton’s 3rd Law of Statues
Or the Darwin Awards by Proxy
The conspiravirus
From Boris’s resurrection to Bill Gates and 5G
Trev’s Islamophobic vampire
A noted progressive gets bitten by his own monster
Allow us to check your thinking
On Harry Miller’s important win against Britain’s thought police
Cancel culture
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
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
Last Tuesday evening, I tweeted the following: ‘Can the Beeb arrange for Andrew Neil to interview this Greta Thunberg character?…
Art Notes
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
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
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
We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the Australian public in one of its periodical fits of morality. —…
Author’s diary
Author tours are funny things, especially when unexpected. 12 months ago, I’d given up on getting Kingdom of the Wicked…
Same sex notes
When I was a girl, my mother used to say she didn’t like standing on the moral high ground because…
Sicilian diary
‘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.
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.
Sometimes, Pauline Hanson’s ‘Please explain’ and the Senate’s role as House of Review achieve perfect congruence. Last week, in Question…
Stung!
Centrelink – as everyone in Australia knows – shat the bed last month, leaving the government (and particularly Christian Porter)…
Stung!
Centrelink – as everyone in Australia knows – shat the bed last month, leaving the government (and particularly Christian Porter)…
Attack of the Offendotrons
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
It’s impossible to ignore the story of Greig Tonkins, the Taronga Park zookeeper who punched a giant roo to save…
