Features Australia
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…
Addicted to outrage
Outrage is the new normal. Sparking outrage − for whatever reason − is the new sin. The number of lazy…
Teaching history
Australia Day always brings out the whingers, the whiners, the crazy Invasion Day anti-nationalists and the almost equally crazy flag-draped…
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,…
Dumbing down NSW
What do Mary Durack, Christina Stead, A. B. Facey, Xavier Herbert, Les Murray, Thomas Keneally and Clive James have in…
Clothes maketh the MP
Like many women watching Donald Trump’s swearing in as the 45th President of the United States of America, I held…
Turnbull is toast
Most people are bemused when I predict that Malcolm Turnbull won’t be prime minister by the end of the year.…
Vulgarian? Populist? Brawler?
The inauguration is over and we now have the most unlikely of US presidents. A complete outsider to politics and…
Stung!
Centrelink – as everyone in Australia knows – shat the bed last month, leaving the government (and particularly Christian Porter)…
Lefty laughs
‘Why doesn’t the Left do humour?’ I asked a left-wing friend. ‘Why is it only conservatives who know how to…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s not just a headwind; there’s a gale coming. The ‘global headwinds’ blamed by the Turnbull government for last week’s…
Clothes maketh the MP
Like many women watching Donald Trump’s swearing in as the 45th President of the United States of America, I held…
Stung!
Centrelink – as everyone in Australia knows – shat the bed last month, leaving the government (and particularly Christian Porter)…
Lefty laughs
‘Why doesn’t the Left do humour?’ I asked a left-wing friend. ‘Why is it only conservatives who know how to…
Turnbull is toast
Most people are bemused when I predict that Malcolm Turnbull won’t be prime minister by the end of the year.…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s not just a headwind; there’s a gale coming. The ‘global headwinds’ blamed by the Turnbull government for last week’s…
Turnbull’s Labor dream
In 1993, Malcolm Turnbull was at a crossroads. Paul Keating had given the well-known journalist, lawyer, banker and republican his…
Ruing the day
Here comes Australia Day again and with it, like professional wailers preceding a Sicilian funeral, the chorus of media penitents…
Truth verboten
This time last year, the German media lost the confidence of the German people. News of the mass New Year’s…
Reconciliation or Revenge?
For a decade, a national apology was sought from Prime Minister John Howard. For a decade, he refused to provide…
Trump is our id, the Left is our super-ego
Trump’s inauguration will be loathed by many. While the meltdown of his enemies are too long and varied to document,…
Revealing nudes
Nude begins with that most perfect of bodies: champion archer Teucer drawing his bow, his youthful face absorbed in concentration,…
High Noon USA
It’s going to be spectacular, it’s going to be ugly and it’s going to be war. The liberal elites in…
High Noon USA
It’s going to be spectacular, it’s going to be ugly and it’s going to be war. The liberal elites in…
Turnbull’s Labor dream
In 1993, Malcolm Turnbull was at a crossroads. Paul Keating had given the well-known journalist, lawyer, banker and republican his…
