Australia’s godless Christmas
As Christmas comes around again, we will discover that Australia is no longer a Christian country. According to the most…
Jamie Oliver shouldn’t have cowed to the Aboriginal offence-takers
The celebrity cook Jamie Oliver has a sideline as an author. Not all his books are about cooking and food:…
Could Kevin Rudd’s Trump tweets cost him his career?
If British Labour ministers and officials find dealing with President Donald Trump 2.0 a formidable challenge, their Australian Labor cousins…
Lidia Thorpe has emboldened protests against King Charles
King Charles and Queen Camilla flew to Samoa for the Commonwealth leaders’ meeting early on Wednesday, after completing their visit…
Ignore the heckling, Charles’s Australia visit has been a triumph
If King Charles and Queen Camilla were feeling a tad apprehensive about their reception in Australia, they needn’t have worried.…
Australia’s republicans are embarrassing themselves over King Charles’s visit
Australia, where King Charles will return to on Friday, is where the monarch became a man. In 1966, Charles had…
Worth the hype
On Monday, Canada’s current and next Prime Ministers, Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre, gave consecutive speeches at a Jewish community…
John Pesutto should not go – yet
It’s being reported in the Melbourne newspapers that the state Liberal leadership of embattled incumbent, John Pesutto, is likely to…
A Tasmanian court has widened Australia’s gender divide
It’s hard to make head or tail of where Australia stands on the gender debate that has divided the West.…
Australia’s social media ban for children won’t work
I was born in the final years of the baby boom. To my generation of children, a social network was…
The terror of Australia’s random coffee attack
A young mother, picnicking with friends in a Brisbane park, shouldn’t now be praying for the recovery of her nine-month-old…
Australia’s ‘right to switch off’ will be a disaster
For a great many, their job is their vocation. It’s not just what they do for a living, it’s a…
Australia’s legal battle to define a ‘woman’ is not over yet
Giggle v Tickle. The name of this Australian court case sounds like an A.P. Herbert legal parody. Except that it…
The selfishness of defecting to another country
Elite sport is a selfish business. It’s all about achieving success for yourself. However much others have contributed to your…
One city is finally cracking down on the e-scooter menace
E-scooters are the bane of modern civilisation. They are the stealth bombers of our pavements. They are a silent danger…
Does Australia have a crocodile problem?
During the cold months of July and August, many southern Australians head north to warmer climes. A favourite destination is…
The everyman immortality of Jack Karlson
Jack Karlson, whose death this week aged 82 has been reported in Britain and around the world, was an Australian…
Many Australians are revolted by Julian Assange’s return
Convicted spy Julian Assange has come home to Australia. Assange’s chartered private jet touched down in Australia’s capital, Canberra, early…
Why is Australia culling wild horses?
A government-sanctioned programme to cull the brumby mobs of wild horses in Australia’s High Country has become a hot political…
Australia’s Covid honours farce
Whatever one thinks of all that happened in the Covid years, and how the experience scarified so many and even…
Victoria’s absurd new minister for men’s behaviour
Australian states like to advertise themselves on car number plates with a catchy slogan capturing what they see as their…
Elon Musk has won a victory for free speech in Australia
In the unedifying clash of heads between billionaire Twitter/X owner, Elon Musk, and Australia’s e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant, there…
The truth about Australia’s controversial crocodile cull
The Northern Territory News, Darwin’s daily paper, is known worldwide for its front pages with headlines so cleverly lurid that…
Australia doesn’t need a Ministry of Truth
Two unrelated acts of stabbing violence, first the random murderous rampage of a knife-wielding man in Sydney’s Bondi Junction, followed…
Australia is in danger of tearing itself apart
In her new book, Liz Truss says she likes Australia and Australians. The country is, she says, ‘like Britain without…
