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Obamacare, Trumpcare… Mediscare?
In his joint press conference with Malcolm Turnbull in New York this month, Donald Trump said that Australia has ‘better…
Green power fantasies
The cool phrases among the proponents of green electricity are ‘distributed networks’ and ‘micro networks’ which, we are told, will…
Back to basics
At the end of law school you undertake ‘practical legal training’ to develop the essential skills of advocacy our adversarial…
Holy Land Diary
Last week, I was in Tel Aviv, to receive an honorary doctorate. The official party entered to the strains of…
Budget notes
Stealing Shorten’s shorts In 1845 Benjamin Disraeli said of Britain’s Tory Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, that he had ‘caught…
Identity politics
The budget week just gone has marked the moment when both sides of politics officially gave up on budget repair…
Worth losing the base?
Donald Trump has identified a phenomenon in the Western media which many suspect and which believers in a free press…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s one of the few bits of Liberal economic policy left in the budget – and judging by the pathetic…
Turnbull’s twilight urgatory
‘I Told You So!’. These are not words that listeners usually enjoy hearing. In fact, if you’re looking for a…
Snowflake warriors
Australia’s hopes rest in its youth, or so people used to say in the expectation that rising generations would build…
Sinking into oppression
We were saying things around the dinner table last Friday night and Gillian Triggs could not stop us. We were…
A solid dose of aggro
This isn’t an easy confession to make in the pages of this august publication, but I grudgingly admire the ACTU’s…
Whose party is it, anyway?
The writing may be on the wall for those lobbyist Liberal Party factional bosses who have successfully defied the decrees…
Another costly folly
Under the guise of compassion and atonement for past injustices suffered by Aborigines, white activists, joined by overseas imports, have…
German attacks on Israel
It might be thought that Germany would still feel a bit… er… sensitive in its dealing with Jews. Indeed, the…
Marine or Macron?
If the voters obey the elites and elect Emmanuel Macron, the Fifth Republic may well be doomed, which could have…
Restoring the Romanovs
Our exclusive interview with Alexander Zakatov, Head of the Chancellery of the Russian Imperial House
Laughing gas
The latest lunatic government intervention into Australian energy markets conjures up the old lady who swallowed a fly. In 2001,…
Dance of the budget veils
Conventional wisdom holds that an elected government’s first budget should be its bravest. Albeit with a micro-majority, Malcolm Turnbull is…
Time to scrap the rebates
Malcolm Turnbull almost lost an election because he had no health policy. Bill Shorten and Labor’s blatant, fabricated ‘Mediscare’, claiming…
Business/Robbery etc
The Liberals’ broad church? In NSW it’s getting thinner on a diet of expulsions and desertions. Remove the nave, the…
What, no Nobel Peace Prize?
Trump’s first 100 days: A big failure and a new low in the polls, blasted the Washington Post in March,…
The Cup, the Martyrs and the Archbishop
The sub-leader in the Australian some months ago (‘Sipping water a capital offence’) called attention to the plight of Mrs…
‘Head of state’? Did I say that?
Malcolm Turnbull has always been a vote loser, contrary to the opinion of the commentariat who put him there. Apart…
Mao’s music
Smog is making me cough and I feel my eyelids smart and redden. High-rises are swaddled in a soupy haze…
