Our political elite are to blame for our educational malaise, not our educators… At the start of another academic year,…

The Victorian Premier’s milestone is not a cause for celebration

According to the common narrative, the spectre of rightist authoritarianism has haunted the West since 2016. For as is usually…

Unless there is major ideological and structural reform, the future for the Liberals and the broad centre-right is bleak 

Whatever the result of this Saturday’s Victorian election, one thing is for sure: there will be no conservative renaissance south…

Australia’s higher-education sector is a farce: a quasi-commercial entity, run for the benefit of select interests, and failing in its social responsibility

Unsurprisingly, one of the things to come out of the recent Jobs and Skills Summit was a greater emphasis on women in…

Jobs and Skills Summit another missed opportunity for introspection

Are we governed by ‘Karens’? For the uninitiated, a ‘Karen’ is a synecdoche for a type of affluent and out-of-touch woman…

A commonly-held view is that we are living through diabolically fractious times. Indeed, even a cursory reflection on the recent…

If you’re reading this, it’s highly likely you’re conservatively inclined. Indeed, skimming The Spectator Australia or spying the Sky After Dark set are…

If two years of intermittent lockdowns, compulsory masking, and all the other effects of Covid haven’t convinced our remaining Dr Panglosses that…

The invasion of liberal Ukraine by a revanchist Russia is as good an occasion as any to muse upon Australia’s…

For the politically inclined, 2022 should be a year of note. With a federal election due by May, and the…