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Puppet masters and useful idiots
A few years ago I returned to Sydney after nearly a life-time spent working in England. With my interest in…
Bestie or baddie?
An article appeared two weeks ago in this magazine entitled ‘Iran is our natural ally’. Images came to mind of…
The Senate is dysfunctional
Look across the entire democratic world and you will notice that some countries have only one legislative chamber. New Zealand…
Popping down to Winki Pop
Surfers were the last of this planet’s great explorers. They followed the paths forged centuries earlier by missionaries and colonisers,…
Testing can be positive
The federal government’s proposed drug testing trial for selected unemployment benefits claimants has been greeted with depressingly predictable objections from…
Stan Grant’s papal bull
According to ancient legend, Alexander the Great was born on the day that the second Temple of Artemis at Ephesus…
Don’t change the Senate
Defenders of the constitution have our work cut out for us. It seems that every day brings a new, novel,…
Coming soon to a campus near you
If you are not worried about the state of free enquiry in universities around the Anglosphere then you are probably…
Business/Robbery etc
Why are so many company directors diverting their energies into pushing publicly-owned corporations to take up controversial social and political…
Cry me a river
My local council – Yarra City – is a grab-bag of inner-urban ‘brie and chablis’ lefties from central casting. It…
Aux bien pensants
Everything and anything to bring Australia down Will our elites succeed in bringing Australia down, just as Argentina and especially…
Where’s Waleed (on gay marriage)?
When the Chinese family who have a café in the small town near me put a sign in their window…
Bottom drawer
Deep in the bowels of the Australian Safe Schools Supporters (ASSS) headquarters, a planning session was taking place. All those…
Heroes of Hyde Park
Captain Cook and Lachlan Macquarie are being hunted down by didactic leftists. Last Friday one of these ‘correctors’ of history…
#Hug a Nazi?
When the Nazi knifepoint was at Britain’s jugular in 1940 Winston Churchill told the nation that all it could look…
Apology unaccepted
It was 18 years ago last weekend that then-PM John Howard moved a Motion of Reconciliation, including an expression of…
Silence of the Lams
Last month Hong Kong celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its 1997 handover. In those far-off days many Hong Kongers felt…
Lack of same sex protection
The (thankfully) former president of the Australian Human Rights Commission Gillian Triggs suggested recently that the same-sex marriage debate was…
The roaring ‘silence’
The notion of a ‘Great Australian Silence’ about Australian history and the treatment of indigenous people might have been accurate…
Man of peace
By any measure, the trajectory of Sheikh Imam Tawhidi to public prominence has been remarkable. From relative obscurity in South…
Burqas and waffle
Whatever else may be said about her, Pauline Hanson’s action in wearing a burqa into the Senate, despite the sobbing…
Business/Robbery etc
Equality of opportunity, not of outcomes; it’s the classic free enterprise backbone of Liberal philosophy. So attacking Bill Shorten’s politics-of-envy…
Hype is renewable
The announcement of a $650 million solar power plant near the South Australian town of Port Augusta brought forth the…
Silent revolt
It all started when a contact at the ABC forwarded me a memo which had been circulated to all ABC…
‘I’m offended’ has won
Earlier in the year, Janet Albrechtsen wrote in the Australian that ‘the cult of taking offence was running rife on…
