The toilet paper pugilists have more morals than our vice-chancellors
Many Australians are rightly concerned about the health risks posed by the arrival of the coronavirus on our shores. Elderly…
Death by reverse dog whistle
On 9 October, 2012 Prime Minister Julia Gillard famously stood up in parliament to accuse Leader of the Opposition Tony…
Off with his head!
The President of the United States is a sort of elected monarch, which is why the office itself is imbued…
Les États Unis will always be a foreign country to Macron
Last weekend’s G7 summit of political leaders from the world’s largest democratic economies opened with a surprise, as the French…
Our universities Chinese cash cows crisis
Australia’s universities are taking a multi-billion-dollar gamble with taxpayer money to pursue a high-risk, high-reward international growth strategy that may…
Australia’s content laws are just so… European
Australians love Netflix. If statistics are to be believed, roughly half of all Australians have a Netflix subscriber in their…
Four ponies of the apocalypse
The open secret of Donald Trump’s political success is that he is always in the news. He seems to live…
Indigenous voice?
It’s Naidoc Week in Australia, and this year’s theme is: ‘Voice. Treaty. Truth. Let’s work together.’ As the locals are…
Demography is destiny
When Sky News asked Australian Labor MP Anne Aly why she opposed the Coalition’s tax cut plan, she cited ‘the…
The Greening and Fall of European Civilisation
The European Parliament election results are in, and the Guardian has proclaimed a ‘green wave’. Winning roughly 9 per cent…
Robotaxis to the rescue
Australia enjoys some of the least reliable and most costly electric power in the developed world. There’s some argument about…
Let’s deplatform the deplatformers
When controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson toured Australia and New Zealand in February, tickets sold out in days. In Brisbane,…
