Features Australia
Bottom Drawer
Why is the Magna Carta glossed over in our schools?
A birthday worth celebrating
Thanks to the Magna Carta, we avoided the dismal fate of becoming another Argentina
Killing it
They were the political grotesques that political junkies can’t get enough of. Thank god they’re back.
Clash of the gay-marriage glory-hunters
From corporations to politicians, everyone’s looking to purify themselves via gay marriage
Gotcha by the Shorten curlies
The mis-named ‘marriage equality’ issue must be decided by the people, not by Parliament
Time Gentleman, please…
The ‘Recognise’ campaign is being pushed by Big (Old) Men hoping to relive past glories
Saving Christianity
The safest country in the Middle East for Christians? Israel.
Making the most of the Age of Entitlement
These days, the person trying to do the right thing by the rest of us is the rarity
Some boats shouldn’t be turned back
Gough Whitlam demonised the Vietnamese boat people. We should be welcoming them to our shores.
Return of the Three Elevens
The rise of the Greens threatens to take federal politics back to the turn of the century. The last century.
Bottom Drawer
Republican monarchists
Clash of symbols
The 1967 referendum is fifty years old. And it achieved, er, what precisely?
Bill Shorten, PM
The clues to a Shorten prime ministership are there for all to see
Where’s Waleed?
Far from being the exception, lone wolves are at the heart of the jihadist strategy
The Mornington after Budget night
Tony Abbott’s change of budgetary and political tack has re-invigorated his loyal supporters
Migration diary
Political cowardice and people on the move
Our churches have fallen in love with climate change
Terrified of irrelevance, Christian churches are leaping onto a godless bandwagon
Closing young minds
The ‘Lomborg affair’ shows the intellectual bankruptcy of contemporary Australian academia
The great divide
Politicians everywhere have an uncanny knack of dividing, not uniting, their people
Tanya Pliber-split
A binding vote on gay marriage looms as the next big Labor party split
The ever-Greens
They survived the departure of Bob Brown. But will anybody care that Christine Milne has gone?
Sympathy for the devil
Our moral decline should not include empathy for child molesters
May day! May day!
Tony Abbott will be in trouble if he doesn’t heed the lessons of two imminent elections where Conservatives are floundering
Rebels with a jihadist cause
Islamist terrorists prey on the vulnerabilities of the adolescent mind and the clash of cultures
Star Chamber Wars
Margaret Cunneen SC has fought a lonely battle against dark forces within our criminal justice system
