Let’s say you’ve recently been hired to earn a living as an opinion piece writer for a newspaper. Let’s really…

During this year’s federal election campaign, the Sydney Morning Herald ran a piece by academic lawyer Ben Saul entitled ‘Human…

The reason so many know-alls have had to scrape the lashings of egg from their faces is that once again,…

The denial of a people’s heritage has a long and ignoble history. Dictators, from Biblical times to the most recent,…

Those who accused Bill Leak of racism over his cartoon and see racism in Pauline Hanson’s policies on migration make…

On 2 July this year, a handful of Australians from the West, numbering in the tens of thousands, dispatched a…

Here is journalist Rex Murphy of Canada’s National Post calling out the patent bias of so many journalists and opinion…

The hidden cost of Australian nanny-state ‘do-good’ legislation is out of control – and you’re paying for it. Only the…

From the outside few observers would have guessed that this is where so many of their taxpayers’ dollars had been…

A new front in the ‘welfare wars’ has opened following revelations that a significant number of those dependent on welfare…

Last night I had a dream replete with wigs, robes and gavels. As I recall, it went something like this:…

The still night is shattered by the sound of crackling; the darkness consumed by the blaze of light emanating from…

It was a week of email agitation. You can’t pick your family, they say, and they’re right. Mine is a…

I once heard a panelist on Q&A say she’d had an abortion and didn’t ‘give a rat’s arse’ about the…

A colleague who had recently arrived from the Middle East wondered why it seemed that everybody was on the verge…