History flips as walls rise in the West
On one frosty Autumn’s night in 1989, thousands of communist evacuees swelled over a fallen Berlin Wall to the embrace…
Al Jazeera has exposed One Nation as part of the political establishment
During an eighteenth century parliamentary debate, British statesman Edmund Burke professed that “in the reporters’ gallery yonder, there sat a…
Brexit: a distortion of democracy
The Brits have been left out to dry in a lousy Brexit process. Last week, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called…
The looming Liberal extinction event
Malcolm Turnbull did not lead a ‘Labor-lite’ government. He led a Liberal government for the twenty-first century. I almost choked…
It’s the end of the world as we know it
The most unlikely shaking of hands threatens to invert the world as we know it, but that may not be…
What crisis of conservatism?
Last month I attended The Australian’s ‘Big Voices on Big Issues’ panel discussion in Melbourne. Senior columnists Janet Albrechtson and…
Why the left has it so wrong on refugee policy
In September, the first 54 of those remaining refugees on Manus Island and Nauru departed for arrival in the United…
