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Save Liddell or let Abbott do it
Responsible for Australia having the world’s most expensive electricity and gas, the least thing the Turnbull government could do is…
Australia, a failing state
According to the UN’s definition, ‘failed states’ are political entities that demonstrate little or no ability to provide their citizens…
Menzies, the banks and Liddell
The appalling behaviour of the banks and insurance companies, exposed in testimony to the banking Royal Commission, is nothing new.…
Whatever happened to conservation?
When I was a pre-schooler my mother enrolled me in the WA Junior Naturalists’ Club. We met in a basement…
Cut!
The Australian screen industry’s recent ‘Make it Australian’ campaign – complete with petition signed by local heavyweights like Cate Blanchett…
Zhe who must be obeyed
In the memorable words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (no, students, you’ll have to Google him, old white guy with a…
Harlotry in the collective of collectives
Who controls the mainstream media? Baldwin famously declared that moguls like Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook did, exercising power without…
Adventures on Thought Crime Island
Britain has broken out the banhammer and is coming after your favourite comedians. It’s also decided words matter more than…
Trump’s red line
One of the revelations of the 14 April military attack on three government sites in Syria by the United States,…
Manipulating Facebook
Judging by the way Mark Zuckerberg was cross-examined before Congress last week, you’d think Facebook was on the brink of…
Business/Robbery etc
Whacko! American farmers have now joined the Australian economy in being seriously at risk of collateral damage from ‘friendly fire’…
Patchwork power
The Australian summer has passed with only the occasional blackout, although a possibly grim winter, once unseasonably warm weather in…
Those dastardly, discommodious Delcons
Remember back to the time of the coup against Tony Abbott when the great and the good (I speak loosely…
More Marxist gibberish
Paul Keating‘s obsession with turning us into some politicians’ republic is not about improving the governance of Australia, surely the…
Dutton earns respect on South Africa
Mariandra Heunis should be enjoying her life with her four children and her husband, Dennis.Only there is no Dennis. In…
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…
