Features Australia
Gays, trans and damned statistics
Australia’s 17th census, conducted in 2016, was the first since the exercise began in 1911 to offer respondents the option…
No sex please, we’re progressive
The Prime Minister’s recent puritanical edicts regarding relationships between ministers and their staff do not have roots in conservative Christianity,…
The inequality of Mercy
Now here’s some news to gladden the heart of everyone who takes the recent Royal Commission’s line in deploring the…
Bonerby, Beetrooter or Barnyard
We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the Australian public in one of its periodical fits of morality. —…
Abbott’s winning agenda
‘The government which stopped the boats can’t slow the planes’, concluded Michael McLaren, the Macquarie Media Network’s rising young star.…
Well out of it
Of all the absurd things that have been said about Brexit, Chris Patten’s comment in his Spectator Australia interview with…
Top three lefty unis
From the sandstones to the concrete monstrosities, Australia’s university students are returning to lecture halls and classrooms in coming weeks.…
Business/Robbery etc
The Turnbull government’s survival depends on a far more serious internal battle than whether Barnaby should keep his fly done…
Bye bye Nats?
Some could use the Barnaby Joyce Affair as an opportunity to kick the National party while it’s down… so let’s…
Minding the gap
Once again the start of the federal parliamentary year has been marked by what has become an annual ritual. The…
What is the point of Cory Bernardi?
Let me be honest. I don’t really see the point of Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives (‘AC’) party as presently configured.…
Paying for steel jobs
Indian billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is now in the same category as American entrepreneur Elon Musk in that any absurd idea…
Aux bien pensants
Proscribe parallelism not promiscuity By proscribing sexual relations with ministerial staff and through his public moral condemnation of Nationals leader…
Darwin’s puppets
When I was young, like many teenagers, I considered science dull. At a Passover dinner one year, I declared this…
When will they ever learn?
One January morning in 1800, a mysterious being emerged from the woods near Aveyron in France. The size of a…
Is time running out for Western civilisation?
‘What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms yet, but I think I can recognise…
Eyeballing DFAT
The problem with our foreign affairs bureaucracy isn’t just the consistent political correctness and suspicion of the Coalition. Much time…
Harvey Weinstein Syndrome
As with most popular movements, what starts from good intentions frequently spirals out of control – or beyond what its…
Autocues for the clueless
Was anyone really surprised when the factional warlords and powerbrokers in the key NSW division of the Liberal party so…
Burdens of proof and blatant bias
The non-lawyer readers of this fine publication may not be aware of a key premise (really it is a trade-off…
Abusing the Holocaust
This year’s commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, was at once illuminated…
Eyeballing DFAT
In republican Canberra, admiration for British tradition is thin. But in one respect it’s alive and well. Our career mandarins…
Down the rabbit hole into Trump’s America
A curious discovery at this year’s Australian Open tennis showed how America’s President Trump trauma is filtering into the most…
Business/Robbery etc
Small businesses and individuals income-earners beware! Now that Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan’s successful five-year multi-billion dollar campaign against tax dodging…
We must not go down the Corbyn path
Perhaps because of its outrageous early ‘70s sexism, one of Britain’s most important ural films, The Rise and Rise of…
