Features Australia
Business/Robbery etc
When directors of Australia’s leading companies start questioning the profit motive on which their success was based, then the system…
Death by reverse dog whistle
On 9 October, 2012 Prime Minister Julia Gillard famously stood up in parliament to accuse Leader of the Opposition Tony…
Submarines versus Facebook
Eyeing Beijing, Taiwan’s political class is nervous, yet again. Australia is jumpy too for lesser reasons. Taiwan’s fear looms close…
Brainwashing your kids
In The New Authoritarianism, University of Sydney academic Salvatore Babones makes the telling observation that while elected politicians might believe…
Politician, thy name is hypocrisy
In the National Party room… everyone…tenaciously… opposed dairy deregulation. (But) when they came back in here (into the chamber), they…
Labour’s ugly taint of antisemitism
Religious leaders generally steer well clear of politics during election campaigns and nobody can remember when one ever before made…
Clive’s noble cause
The great Clive James died on the same day as the great Jonathan Miller but I know which one I…
Business/Robbery etc
It is not going away. Corporate leaders are increasingly stepping outside their legal requirement to serve the best interests of…
Academia rooted
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences continues to be the standard bearer for everything that is…
Teaching untruths about Jews
Physical Education teachers are caricatured as tormenting the unfit children in the class but in fact they are an essential…
London Bridge is falling down
On 30 November 2019, we were witness to a shocking display of behaviour on London Bridge, that our misandrist citizens…
Lock up the politicians
A favourite argument of the elites is that something is ‘inevitable’ or, more subtly, ‘the planets are aligned’. Blasting what…
Trump, impeachment and the media
Many of us living in the Westminster parliamentary part of the democratic world don’t have much grasp of what the…
Endangered species
Not long ago, visiting the hospital unit of a local rest home, I listened to a gathering of those too…
Hydrogen’s all hot air
Faced with evidence that the Paris Agreement on limiting emissions is being ignored, including news that China is building or…
Haunted by the miserable ghost
I still think back to that night in mid-May this year: scrutineering in some far-flung warehouse in suburban Melbourne, running…
Iran, Israel and DFAT’s award-winning cowardice
Last week, Scott Morrison was awarded the Jerusalem Award by the Zionist Federation of Australia for his moral courage in…
Aaarrrggh!!
Earlier this month, 1,100 people crammed into the function room of Miramare Gardens in Sydney’s Terrey Hills, to honour former…
Electric cars crash
As a senior investigative reporter, I can handle a notebook, a pen and my spaniel Natasha’s leash in each hand.…
Guilt by association
It was inevitable that Prince Andrew’s interview would be used to support a push for a politicians’ republic. Janet Albrechtsen…
Science friction
In recent weeks, we have seen yet another public statement from scientists (in the journal Bioscience) prophesying an approaching climate…
Business/Robbery etc
When BHP changes CEO on January 1, and a practical mining man takes over, hopefully the world’s biggest miner will…
Close encounters of the royal kind
Prince Andrew has a dangerous habit of trusting the wrong people. Like Emily Maitlis. Why the prince put his faith…
Political correctness kills
On the third of October, 2019, Mickael Harpon went to work at police headquarters on the Île de la Cité…
Yes, we have a truth emergency
Last Monday the Australian described ABC journos organising a ‘solutions journalism’ approach to what they call the ‘climate crisis’. This…
