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Economical with… free speech

22 July 2017 9:00 am

The Spycatcher trial established Malcolm Turnbull’s reputation at the time as a brilliant champion of free speech. Personally, reviewing a…

Tim’s anti-White Australia Policy

15 July 2017 9:00 am

Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane’s latest push to embed grievance-mongering identity politics at the heart of the nation’s institutions threatens…

Bob Carr has no shame

15 July 2017 9:00 am

Does he have no sense of shame? Is there nothing he won’t do to defame Israel, or the local Jewish…

True selves

15 July 2017 9:00 am

News of a world-first designation of a gender-free baby in Canada will come as no surprise, but should come with…

Aux bien pensants

15 July 2017 9:00 am

Boxers, Accountants & Emperors In cleansing the Liberal Party, their anti-corruption consultant has scored another victory. The latest culprit is…

Three crises

15 July 2017 9:00 am

Commenting on Tony Abbott’s recent Perth speech in Quadrant, Keith Windschuttle identified three crises ‘which, taken together, represent a national…

Done to death

8 July 2017 9:00 am

‘I’m bored!’ declares my companion while yet another naked body is hoisted – like Jesus – onto a makeshift cross.…

Lords a-dancing around Taqiyya

8 July 2017 9:00 am

In Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe the British House of Lords, which ‘did nothing in particular, but did it very well’,…

Simone

8 July 2017 9:00 am

Canberra, 2026 Simone entered the kitchen, hips swaying. ‘House goddess’ – this was her walking style. David had selected it,…

Point of no returnbull

8 July 2017 9:00 am

The first duty of a leader is to keep the team together. This is Malcolm Turnbull’s biggest failure. The federal…

Verwoerd looking

8 July 2017 9:00 am

The late Allister Sparks (1933-2016), veteran political reporter and book author, in the year before he died, reflected on some…

The flibbertigibbet Pope

1 July 2017 9:00 am

After two Popes of towering intellectual and spiritual strength, it is difficult to become used to the fact that their…

The peaceful majority are irrelevant

1 July 2017 9:00 am

Islam has exported its primitive, age-old and endless Sunni vs Shiite war of religious violence around the world, expanding it…

On a sensitive issue

1 July 2017 9:00 am

In 1939 Paul Hasluck published ‘Our Southern Half Caste Natives and their condition.’ It was a pamphlet based on a…

A penance or a curse

1 July 2017 9:00 am

If the UK general election had been a military battle it would be taught in Army staff colleges around the…

Business/Robbery etc

1 July 2017 9:00 am

What’s left of Australia’s manufacturing industry needs to get its political hands dirty. If it really wants to survive it…

No pie in the sky

1 July 2017 9:00 am

The authoritarian attitude of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has been challenged by Robin Speed, the President of the Rule of…

Deadly self-censorship

1 July 2017 9:00 am

Political correctness is eating itself. It’s in very real danger of destroying us, and will do so while apologising for…

True Islam

24 June 2017 9:00 am

Each new Islamic terrorist atrocity is denounced by western leaders such as our Prime Minister as a ‘twisted’ or ‘perverted’…

Men of violence

24 June 2017 9:00 am

Almost every other Aboriginal woman I know has been subject to family violence. It is in fact rare for an…

Reinventing energy policy

24 June 2017 9:00 am

While the Liberal party tears itself apart over whether a Clean Energy Target as proposed by the Finkel report delivered…

Thou shalt not steal the truth

24 June 2017 9:00 am

On 11 May 2017, under the auspices of Dialogue4Peace, I, together with Egyptian Copt, Nadia Ghali, were the main speakers…

Time bandits

17 June 2017 9:00 am

‘Oooooo,’ coos the middle-aged box office lady with a wink, as I pick up my tickets to the World Science…

So it’s all about the, er, settlements then?

17 June 2017 9:00 am

There has long been a conventional wisdom in some foreign policy circles that runs like this: solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…

Excuse me, your cognitive dissonance is showing

17 June 2017 9:00 am

On June 5 in Brighton, Melbourne, at a spot I have driven past countless times, there was a terrorist incident.…