Features Australia
Whatever happened to socialism?
There has been some alarm expressed in Britain by worried editorial writers in journals like the Economist that Jeremy Corbyn…
Communicating hope
They’re so small you might not notice them. Sitting side by side on a white wall in Brisbane’s Gallery of…
Why the history wars matter
In a widely-publicised incident, two attention-seekers from the far-right Patriot Blue group harassed Senator Sam Dastyari in a Melbourne pub…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s a festering boil on the backside of progress, but no government will lance this offensive double of PM Keating’s…
Danby vs the ABC
You’d think that, with its $1 billion budget, the ABC could handle a little criticism. Not so, as Melbourne Ports…
Can rotten people create great art?
Resolving the dichotomy between a work of art, and the artist who created it, has never been more urgent or…
A teacher tweets
A high-tech revolution is taking place in the world of teaching, but it’s not about AI or virtual reality or…
Climate games
Who do you suppose wrote this? ‘The changing climate is causing great damage to people and planet right now, and…
Even worse in WA
We all know that the Liberal party MPs are in a world of pain. The polls are diabolical. Political death…
Fellow citizens
The High Court’s decision last month to disqualify five federal parliamentarians for being dual citizens represents the worst excesses of…
The deep swamp
Bill and Hillary Clinton are not unlike Lord and Lady Macbeth. For the better part of twenty-five years these two…
Sacrificial notes
To the Sun Goddess Wong Visiting Canada, I could not fail but note the absence of any significant campaign to…
Business/Robbery etc
There was no cost/benefit analysis; it was opposed by the government’s financial advisor, the Treasury; it has ballooned over 25…
A tale of two Andrews
The story of euthanasia in Australia could be dubbed a tale of two Andrews, the good one and the not…
The new censorship
One thing thoughtful members of my generation were, I think, unquestioning about was this: democratic West Germany had thoroughly repudiated…
Now the Right’s doing it
In American football, a rare and highly prized commodity is the dual threat quarterback. For those not familiar with the…
Dissent and depravity
The propagandising of the Australian outpost of the international religious political party Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) supplies the foremost contemporary demonstration…
Dystopic pregnancy
The mathematical, reading and science skills of Australian school students are in serious decline with the average student now close…
The Multiculti cult
While it is said that a really bad idea never quite goes away, we could surely try to make multiculturalism…
No charge in electric cars
Imagine ordering a population to evacuate from the path of a hurricane if they only had electric cars to drive.…
Here we go again
You don’t need a crystal ball to tell you that the next costly national distraction after the gay marriage circus…
Sex and gender in the British Empire, anyone?
In 440 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus broke with tradition by collecting primary sources and then systematically and…
Getting to the bottom of the military
But just how diverse and inclusive were the Aztecs?
Free votes: a free reform
When the dispiriting kabuki theatre that is the same-sex marriage survey finally reaches its denouement next month, focus will again…
Chesterton’s prophesy
To step back and take a broad view of history is to see a constant and almost incessant Muslim onslaught…
