Features Australia
Book lover’s notes
The hot days of summer inspire two impulses, a good clean up, curiously called a spring clean, and the desire…
Hawke’s myopia
Bob Hawke is a respected former Labor PM, but in a recent article in the AFR he incorrectly elevated Israeli…
Tony, Pauline and Cory
The best chance of sound and honest government returning to Australia will be the emergence of, if not a grand…
Lapping it up
Last time around they managed to put her in gaol. Now they are rolling out the red carpet. Pauline Hanson…
Picking judges
President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats in the United States are about to engage in political warfare about who will…
The refugee fetish
On February 8, the Australian published a full page advertisement paid for by 72 organisations calling for the evacuation of…
Mr Trumble’s dumb deal
President Trump was right. It was a ‘dumb deal’, dumb for both Australia and the United States. First, it was…
The Cory revolution
It’s hard to imagine that, less than five years ago, Cory Bernardi was Tony Abbott’s parliamentary secretary. The role suited…
Hanging on the telephone
January 29, 2017 might be remembered by Australians and Americans as the day when the President of the United States,…
Women’s tennis is a joke
In the warm afterglow of the festival of tennis that was the Australian Open, and the glorious men’s final match…
The Jackal vote
I have argued before that New Zealand and Australia might combine their defence forces, providing New Zealand pulled its weight…
Business/Robbery etc
At last a rational solution to Australia’s government-generated economically-crazy job-destroying energy crisis? Or just more pie in the sky from…
Brief candle
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of PM…
The Cory revolution
It’s hard to imagine that, less than five years ago, Cory Bernardi was Tony Abbott’s parliamentary secretary. The role suited…
Hanging on the telephone
January 29, 2017 might be remembered by Australians and Americans as the day when the President of the United States,…
Mr Trumble’s dumb deal
President Trump was right. It was a ‘dumb deal’, dumb for both Australia and the United States. First, it was…
The Jackal vote
I have argued before that New Zealand and Australia might combine their defence forces, providing New Zealand pulled its weight…
Business/Robbery etc
At last a rational solution to Australia’s government-generated economically-crazy job-destroying energy crisis? Or just more pie in the sky from…
Indigenous indulgences
I acknowledge the Aboriginal peoples who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live. I pay my…
Time to switch off SBS
The impending retirement of ABC chairman, Jim Spigelman, presents Malcolm Turnbull with an ideal opportunity to shake up the country’s…
Teaching history
Australia Day always brings out the whingers, the whiners, the crazy Invasion Day anti-nationalists and the almost equally crazy flag-draped…
Dumbing down NSW
What do Mary Durack, Christina Stead, A. B. Facey, Xavier Herbert, Les Murray, Thomas Keneally and Clive James have in…
Addicted to outrage
Outrage is the new normal. Sparking outrage − for whatever reason − is the new sin. The number of lazy…
More divisive than Trump
Often, the tone words are delivered in is equally, if not more important, than the words themselves. It’s hardly surprising,…
Indigenous indulgences
I acknowledge the Aboriginal peoples who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live. I pay my…
