The silence of the wolves
Who will pay for the devastation caused by Covid policies?
Circling the Liberal wagons (again)
No room in the broad church for conservatives
Aussie life
There’s nothing like a war and a flood to ease pretend problems like exaggerated viral outbreaks off the front pages.…
Two Australias
The insiders versus the outsiders
Justin Langer thrown under the cricket bus
Ian Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with…
Tony Abbott for PM – of Britain!
The conservative stalwart broadcaster Mark Steyn has made the suggestion, in apparent seriousness, that the British Tories should draft Tony…
The strange emergence of the anti-vaxxer bogeyman
To Sir (!) Tony Blair, they are selfish idiots. To Bob Carr, they are simpletons. To the Archbishop of Canterbury…
Do not go quietly, George Christensen
The gas-lighting of retiring MP George Christensen by senior Coalition figures in Canberra is a disgrace. It is also very,…
Testing Perrottet
The NSW Premier must not betray those who have supported him the most
Gladys & the ICAC porn
The politics of granting grants needs an overhaul
How to kill a country
Past leaders are looking pretty good
Ten questions for the incoming NSW premier
This article was to be titled “Ten Questions for Gladys Berejiklian”, but … well, there you go. Much ink will inevitably be…
Australia fails the character test
Bad actors take centre-stage in our Covid Theatre
Covid statistics tell a different story
Just how scared should we really be?
One continent, eight nations
The British rugby fans have their Six Nations. Well, we now have eight nations, if you count our beloved territories. …
Wink wink, nudge nudge!
Governments’ scary behaviour
John Anderson’s victory
The decision of the good pre-selectors of the National Party to resist the attempt by its remaining elder statesman, John…
Abbott’s leadership
Even arch critics like Niki Savva recognise his great skill
The centre-right cannot hold
With apologies to WB Yeats and Joan Didion, the lost, snookered souls of the Australian electorate are now slouching, not…
The real miracle of Upper Hunter
“A Gladys Miracle”, the Sunday papers shouted. The miracle narrative has left the station. We will soon, no doubt, be adding “historic” and,…
Kelly, Flint, Andrews, Christensen, Stoker. I’m spotting a pattern here
No home for conservatives in the Libs?
Aussie Life
Australia’s iconic hippie playground is in the news. This time it is not about real estate booms or Hollywood celebrity…
Throwing the Christian to the fembots
The MeToo-ists are out to get their man
Abbott and Trump
We wuz robbed. Twice.
Litmus test for the Libs
Despite ScoMo’s ‘miracle’ victory over the now almost forgotten Bill Shorten, and much Liberal party celebrating over the apparent return…