Features Australia

The harlot throughout the ages

21 February 2015 9:00 am

The commentariat, not the army, have staged this latest coup in our banana republic

Black humour

21 February 2015 9:00 am

The non-PC work of playwright Nakkiah Lui draws inspiration and laughter from dark events in her past

Paying lip service to the Holocaust

21 February 2015 9:00 am

Commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz expose the hypocrisy of the United Nations

Freedom of speech, but…

21 February 2015 9:00 am

The killings in Copenhagen offer the perfect illustration of why you cannot appease on free speech

Abbott and the Gumbys

21 February 2015 9:00 am

Tony Abbott could learn a lot from John Key, including getting rid of lacklustre ministers

The Y.U.U.Y. disease

14 February 2015 9:00 am

Mr Abbott’s problem is that he’s got ‘yielding’ and ‘unyielding the wrong way around

Going troppo

14 February 2015 9:00 am

Think the Liberals federal leadership spill was bizarre? Try the Northern Territory’s

When it comes to free speech, we’re all hypocrites

14 February 2015 9:00 am

From anti-terror laws to Section 18C, both sides of politics have a bet each way

The age of self-obsession

14 February 2015 9:00 am

The culture of the ‘selfie’ is now infecting our, er, culture

Sir Phil the Greek; the truth

7 February 2015 9:00 am

The usual suspects in the commentariat have peddled myths, untruths and lies about the knighting of Prince Philip

‘Sir’ Bob Carr and the Round Table of Hypocrisy

7 February 2015 9:00 am

Plenty of Tony Abbott’s critics have accepted foreign Knighthoods of their own

Our very own Alan Turing

7 February 2015 9:00 am

The little known story of our own code-breaking star, Eric Nave, who did as much as anyone to break the Japanese naval codes

The art of dying

7 February 2015 9:00 am

David Walsh sees fear of death and access to sex as integral to old and new art

No Aussie knighthood for Winston

31 January 2015 9:00 am

It was Churchill’s stuff-ups, rather than his successes, that made Australians who we are today

Don’t poke fun at the terrorists

31 January 2015 9:00 am

An exclusive interview with Meidyatama Surodiningrat, the ‘blaspheming’ Editor in Chief of the Jakarta Post

The viper lurking in our bosom

31 January 2015 9:00 am

Recent tragedies have led to a long-overdue Australian awakening to the threat posed by Islamist ideology

Coolies sold down the river by the bamboo ceiling

31 January 2015 9:00 am

Those who seek to unearth overt racism will find it in even our most successful migrant stories

Censorship guide

31 January 2015 9:00 am

Here is a wee little guide for all of you people who work for the ABC, or Get-Up!, or the…

Bottom drawer

24 January 2015 9:00 am

The lost art of British history

Jarryd Hayne, meet Adam Smith

24 January 2015 9:00 am

Of all the sports on earth, one was clearly designed by a free marketeer

Zut alors – who am I?

24 January 2015 9:00 am

Just because I am horiified by what happened at Charlie Hebdo doesn’t mean I want to rescind 18C

Could an ‘Aussie Hebdo’ survive?

24 January 2015 9:00 am

Over many years, the Left have ensured that free speech does not extend to criticising certain religions

Demonstrators wave posters reading ‘Je suis Charlie (I am Charlie)’, during the Unity rally Marche Republicaine in Paris in tribute to the 17 victims of the Charlie Hebdo killing spreeby three Islamist terrorists.

Responding to murderous bullies

17 January 2015 9:00 am

The media can defeat the Islamists’ terrorising threat tofree speech by themselves

Charlie, the Prophet and the Pope

17 January 2015 9:00 am

When will the Left understand there is no religious equivalency with fanatical Islam?

Butcher’s knives, bombs and airplanes

17 January 2015 9:00 am

Welcome to the Venn diagram of Islamist terrorism