Royally irresponsible
Over the past year, a belief has taken hold that the main driver of wrongdoing in our banking and financial…
Making a hash of the climate debate
According much of the media, last Friday’s climate change ‘strike’ staged by school students across Australia was an epoch-making moment…
Australian schools: reading, writing and revolution
Revelations this week that schoolteacher Regina Wilson had vowed to “ensure that the next generation of voters in my classroom…
Julia Gillard’s dropouts
In 2008, Julia Gillard announced that the Rudd government’s policy of uncapping university places marked the start of ‘a higher…
Tin foil hats and the top end of town
You have to wonder what Paul Keating will be thinking as the invitations to attend Labor fundraisers and campaign events…
Manipulating Facebook
Judging by the way Mark Zuckerberg was cross-examined before Congress last week, you’d think Facebook was on the brink of…
Unlearning truth
Nearly ten months on, the University of Sydney appears to be coming to grips with the fact that Donald Trump…
Up the pointy end
Bill Shorten has ramped up Labor’s efforts to stoke envy among the many by maligning the success of the few,…
What’s so bad about 457 visas?
Malcolm Turnbull claims the Government’s abolition of the 457 visa in favour of more stringent entry requirements for skilled migrants…
The dangerous narcissism of Earth Hour
Around this time in March each year, millions of people in developed countries spend 60 minutes of their lives reeling…
Time to get tough on business-union sleaze
Nearly sixteen months after Dyson Heydon handed down his final report following the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption, Malcolm…
Copping it sweet
New research from the University of Melbourne claiming a tax on soft drink could add 1.2 years of healthy life…
Will the government miss another free kick from the union movement?
Today thousands of CFMEU members across Australia took the day off work to march in solidarity with retail and hospitality…
Copping it sweet
New research from the University of Melbourne claiming a tax on soft drink could add 1.2 years of healthy life…
Bill borrows from Trump’s protectionist playbook
Donald Trump’s ascendancy has provided ample fodder for left-leaning politicians, GetUp! and other aggrieved members of the activist class seeking…
A lecture from UQ on diversity and tolerance – not
Lofty notions of free enquiry, open debate and tolerance are paid no shortage of lip service in Australian universities. In…
Make Australia Great Again
1. Slash Corporate Tax. The centrepiece of the Coalition’s re-election pitch was the ‘enterprise tax plan’ which will see Australia’s…
Derryn Hinch and the ABCC: Shame, shame, shame!
Malcolm Turnbull and Michaelia Cash have boasted that the long-awaited passage of the Government’s ABCC bills is a ‘fundamental economic…
Registered Organisations Bill a win for workers
Monday’s long awaited passage of the Registered Organisations Bill has been touted as a much-needed win for the Turnbull Coalition…
Do words Trump facts?
To dispense with the obvious, Donald Trump’s recently aired commentary about his extra-marital escapades are ill befitting of any serious…
Time to Ged real about the CFMEU
On Monday’s Q&A, ACTU leader Ged Kearney claimed that the Government’s proposed reinstatement of the ABCC was about ‘union breaking’…
I don’t give a Gonski and neither should you
Ask anyone from Malcolm Turnbull down to the fedora-wearing Socialist leafleting on the corner of Flinders Street Station and odds…
The Shoppies’ sellout
The Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association — affectionately known as the ‘Shoppies’ – is under fire from employer groups…
Free speech is too important to be trusted to lawyers
On last week’s Q&A, comedian turned mature age law student Corinne Grant shed light on perhaps the most compelling reason…
Deconstructing the construction unions
The Coalition may have prised a slim majority from the jaws of electoral defeat, but the fate of Australia’s construction…
