Features Australia
Culpable negligence? Or criminal?
What were the most important issues facing our politicians as we moved into spring? If we pause for a moment…
Bushfire of the vanities
‘You are literally evil. Dante has a level for you… Now I know that you’re the type who would laugh…
Whipping boy
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had a nerve taking a break at the end of last year and leaving the Left…
Business/Robbery etc
A brave new decade for Australian free enterprise under a business-friendly Coalition government? If only! Already there are concerns about…
Thank God for tide gauges
Between 1764 and 1767 William Hutchison, a mariner who was then Harbour Master at Liverpool in England, carefully recorded the…
Boris’s great moral victory
Had Jeremy Corbyn become Prime Minister then nothing would have been learned from the sacrifice and defeat of Hitler and…
Disaster’s long march through the institutions
Derelict thinking throughout central and local body government and indeed all our management (including academic) areas, is now recognised as…
You say ‘diversity’. I hear quotas
Ever wonder where all this talk of ‘diversity’ started? Well, it actually dates back some four decades to a 1978…
Summer books
The year has been an odd one for books, with some trying to make sense of the political landscape and…
Lighting bushfires
The recent tragic bushfires reignited the argument about global warming – the science is settled – and burnt the Green-Left…
The Kurds troubled way
Pictures of Kurdish women fighters alongside men surprised many in the West and the October withdrawal of American forces from…
Jesus of Palestine?
You are in a tizz. Christmas is just around the corner and you can’t think of the right present for…
Humbling hills
Hidden in the spectacular rugged mountains of the far north Flinders Ranges at Arkaroola is a climate story written in…
Trump’s re-election is crucial
Show trials, where the accused have no rights and guilt is predetermined, are integral to communist and Nazi regimes. They…
RAP artists of the ABC
Our household switches on ABC TV at 6pm and checks how long it takes to sight an Aboriginal-identifying Australian. Typically,…
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…
