Features Australia
The idiocy of cultural competence
A conference held last week by the University of Sydney’s taxpayer-funded National Centre for Cultural Competence has proven once and…
Long she’s reigned over us
The past, wrote L. P. Hartley in The Go-Between, is a foreign country. Even a decade as relatively recent as…
It’s (party) time
Was there anyone who was not moved when they saw former Australian cricket captain Steve Smith’s public act of contrition…
The death of expertise
It must have been a joke. The other day, I was looking through the Harvard Magazine and saw a piece…
Business/Robbery etc
Collateral damage – and it’s not only from the (unlikely) risk of a world-wide protectionist tariff war. ‘Friendly (economic) fire’…
Kleptocracy on the Cape
There is a brilliant scene in Evelyn Waugh’s paean to Fleet Street, Scoop, in which the reader is acquainted with…
Illusion of knowledge warming the planet
In this the 30th anniversary year of the IPCC, we should look back and remember the original sin with which…
Coronate Buddy Franklin
Advocates for an Australian republic have spent the last two decades patiently waiting for the Queen of England to die.…
Britain gagged
When emails from the group Britain First began turning up in my inbox, I took it for granted that it…
Send the white farmers to the outback!
In a characteristically pungent Speccie piece, Rod Liddle recently described as ‘genocide’ the situation of white farmers in the semi-arid…
Opposition to e-cigs is running out of puff
In 2003 Hon Lik, a Beijing pharmacist, developed an electronic cigarette which attracted interest from industry. Decades before, Hon Lik…
Time to rise again
I bought a different brand of diary for this year, and it has dropped Easter. Easter Day is plain Sunday…
Telford and the Left
The sleepy town of Telford, England, is home to the latest bout of grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation. On…
Save the last dance for Li
As a child growing up in rural China during the punishing years of the Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin felt like…
Aux bien pensants
Mug the frugal, turnbull teaches shorten The standing of politicians has never been lower. They’re widely regarded as self-interested, incompetent,…
Aussie tax slayer
According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website, Australia will contribute $43.8 million to the ‘Palestinian Territories’ in…
Browned off at the ballot box
Popular concerns over immigration, ignored by politicians across the Western world, will at best be expressed at the ballot box,…
Coal’s here to stay
There is a modern misconception that a modern economy will become less reliant on energy. A word association test on…
Little Rocket Man and the Obama of Asia
Suddenly Kim Jong-un is a good guy. He sends his sister to the Pyeongchang Olympics to work her icy charms…
The new great Australian silence
In Down Among The Wild Men, the anthropologist, John Greenway, describes the process by which Aboriginal adolescents from the Western…
The perils of surrendering sovereignty
Britain’s period of surrendering key responsibilities to the European Union is drawing to a close, but the experience serves as…
A new Marshall Plan, please
A Marshall Plan is needed for war-torn South Australia devastated by decades of green warfare and lawfare, welfare, destruction of…
Lesson One: don’t get caught
The dismissal of the FBI’s second-in-charge, Andrew McCabe, was not by President Trump, as several Australian outlets who bothered to…
Love is love, boys
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again flagged his intention to deliver a national apology to the victims of institutional child…
Stuck down a one-way street
Australia is not a racist country. Compared with much of the world, Australia is a paragon of virtue when it…
