Features Australia
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.…
Observations from the grave
This is the winner of the 2017 Spectator Australia Thawley Essay Prize, the theme of which was ‘The great Australian…
Feeling Carr-sick
What gives with Bob Carr? Why, for that matter, has so much of the Left in the democratic world turned…
Translating Energyspeak
A little over a decade ago former Labor speechwriter Don Watson wrote a series of books bemoaning the decay of…
Aux bien pensants
Beria born again in the usa You could have thought the central feature of French President Macron‘s visit to Australia…
Business/Robbery etc
So what’s new? Twenty years ago, Westpac’s then boss, Bob Joss proclaimed: ‘Banks face shutting down entire divisions of business…
Australia under attack from political correctness
Douglas Murray in The Strange Death Of Europe argues that ‘Europe is committing suicide’ as a result of enemies within…
Potty Greens
The push for recreational cannabis legalisation in Australia has recently received energetic support from Dr Di Natale and his band…
The Parisites
Last month it was two years since world leaders converged with self-congratulatory ceremony and chilled champagne to sign the multi…
Murphy’s lore
Murphy – the Australian Ballet’s tribute to choreographer Graeme Murphy, surely their brightest star – kicks off with a scene…
Dark truth behind white lies
If we look at the former British colonies of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa, we can see several…
