Features Australia
Litmus test for the Libs
Despite ScoMo’s ‘miracle’ victory over the now almost forgotten Bill Shorten, and much Liberal party celebrating over the apparent return…
Molotov’s poisonous cocktail
Yesterday’s 80th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the curtain-raiser for Hitler’s invasion of Poland a week later,…
Keneally sells out
It is not the easiest thing in the world to cause a stir among conservatives. They are often described as…
Business/Robbery etc
Having turned 80 last month and 12 years out of office, Australia’s 25th Prime Minister John Winston Howard’s occasional and…
The day the news died
Hollywood blockbusters are not normally the place one finds insight, but a new action thriller recently provided an unexpected reflection…
Nihilism nirvana
If you were to believe some politicians and journalists, the recent mass killings in El Paso, Texas and Christchurch, New…
We are only half-reconciled
Senator Pat Dodson, often called the ‘father of reconciliation’, said last week that political leaders had failed to reconcile with…
Four freedoms
Is it time for Australia to legislate for a minimalist bill of rights? Now, before you scream ‘Not as long…
True leadership personified
Although Napoleon said that every soldier carries a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack, great leaders are rare. Since Churchill, the…
NSW botches abortion
‘The sound of men arguing over our personal reproductive health choices hurts my ears and it offends my very core,’…
Daughter slaughter
Exactly twenty-five years ago, August 1994, Australia’s leading practitioner of late-term abortion gave a lecture at Monash University on ‘Abortion…
The Year My Woke Broke
When Prince Harry revealed, in the issue of Vogue his wife guest-edited, that they would only have two children ‘to…
Doing the Makarrata
So here we go again. What I will call ‘Atsic mark II’ is currently getting pollies, journos and lawyers in…
The G-G should resign
Australia’s constitutional system cannot function properly with a Governor-General inserting himself into contemporary political debate. If the current Governor-General wishes…
Australia’s content laws are just so… European
Australians love Netflix. If statistics are to be believed, roughly half of all Australians have a Netflix subscriber in their…
2018 Thawley Essay prize winner
The great Groucho Marx once joked that he didn’t want to belong to any club that would have him as…
A culture of death imposed by deceit
The adoption of an abortion law so extreme it sanctions the killing of any innocent who dares survive has been…
When the music stops
Slowly, Australians are awakening from their deep 28 years slumber. For nearly three decades, they have slept secure in the…
Business/Robbery etc
ScoMo, please steer clear of anything to do with superannuation. Your unfortunate experience when Treasurer should have shown you that…
Political correctness eats at the soul of the West
I first wrote about political correctness in 1993 after buying a copy of The Official Politically Correct Dictionary & Handbook…
Boris’s second D-Day
The chances of the UK freeing itself from EU control improved no end last week. In his first statement to…
End of the world, again
Is it just me, or does the Apocalypse seem to roll around earlier and earlier each year? We’re supposed to…
Quigley has a duty to quibble
Community safety requires competent law-making by parliament, robust law enforcement by government and wise decision-making from the judiciary. If one…
Eat the chefs
The offenderati have been baying for blood ever since it was revealed that MasterChef Australia judge George Calombaris had been…
Certify the political class?
‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’ The truth of this ancient proverb has been demonstrated by the…
