Features Australia
To Jerusalem and back
I land at Ben-Gurion Airport just before midnight and begin the long ascent to Jerusalem. The headiness hits me immediately…
Clash of teaching civilisations
In 1942 Dr Joseph Needham was sent by the British government to China to study China’s universities and see what…
West goes south
Last November I was lucky enough to have been invited to the Sydney launch of the Ramsay Centre for Western…
White fright
In the freakish universe of identity politics, there’s no creature sadder than the self-hating white person. All it takes for…
It’s time for primaries
Political class failure undermines the standing of our governments. Every ignored voter concern, project failure and moment of spin leaves…
Eyes on Gaza
Israel’s government is often accused of preventing a two-state solution by its actions but rarely are the decisions of Hamas…
What Rotherham means
The revelations of unhindered Muslim sex-trafficking of thousands of young girls in British towns, including Rotherham, Rochdale and Oxford, are…
Educating China
Imagine you are responsible for educating the children of China’s current leaders, many of whom may well go on to…
Tony’s trifecta
Surely it was obvious that, on any reasonable examination, Donald Trump was by far the better candidate in the 2016…
Business/Robbery etc
Australia’s current corporate leaders, the ‘managerial class’, are slowly destroying the capitalism that has made us such a great and…
Over-rating Marx
Was Karl Max over-rated as a thinker? It was hard not to ask that (provocative) question as I read the…
SOS for SGMs
If you were trapped at an upper window of a burning building and a fireman appeared at the top of…
Hangers-on
The former NSW Premier Neville Wran had an interesting take on the true meaning of working class culture. Having grown…
Amnesty, morally corrupted?
When Amnesty International concerned itself with campaigning on behalf of individual and identifiable political prisoners of regimes of whatever political…
Bloodshed in Gaza: who’s to blame?
In the seventy years since the rebirth of the Jewish state, the relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem is…
Buffoons, donkeys and little men
Good news for Australia in Beijing this week, if a mild setback for Kiwis. In the twelve months to February…
Warrior prince weds a Hollywood princess
The happy marriage between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will have formidable and long-lasting consequences. Australians took the occasion to…
Business/Robbery etc
Having politically sabotaged the government’s tax reform package (and endangering its own prospective corporate tax cuts) the big end of…
Turnbull, winner?
It may be far too early to declare Malcolm Turnbull a potential winner of the next federal election but it’s…
A diplomatic error
An ancient Bedouin proverb says ‘I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers…
Budget conjuring trick
The Federal Budget process is no more than a conjuring trick to ensure the next election results in a high-taxing,…
Keep the roots of Western Civilisation healthy
Last year’s same-sex marriage campaigns prompted Australians to think deeply about one of the principal institutions underpinning civil society. But…
Parklife
During more or less the whole 20 years that my wife and I have lived in the Blue Mountains we…
Evil vs dumb
The great US columnist Charles Krauthammer once noted this truth about contemporary political life in America: ‘To understand the workings…
Little Alfie
The questions around little baby Alfie’s death aren’t going to go away. They raise a timely and extremely important issue.…
