Features Australia
Through thick and spin
Once upon a time, Britain sent Australia its excess convicts. These days we get Tony Blair’s old spin doctors, a…
Marxism’s rotten fruit
In his brilliant Intellectuals – From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, Paul Johnson highlights the hypocrisy of what…
Four ponies of the apocalypse
The open secret of Donald Trump’s political success is that he is always in the news. He seems to live…
Distracting from real reform
Constitutional ‘recognition’ of the indigenous people is but the latest in a series of silver bullets proposed by the elites…
Immigration and the demographic brioche
The Conversation is an online journal publishing commentary from Australian academics about current issues. It claims to present articles with…
An upside to invasion?
Nathan Moran, of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council in Sydney, kicked off Naidoc week by criticising the city’s publicly-funded…
Einstein, Marx and the scourge of suicide
Prime Minister Morrison’s commitment to addressing the escalating rate of suicide is commendable and much needed. Given 3,128 Australians committed…
Cancel culture
Everyone who hasn’t spent the last six months under a rock knows about Israel Folau and how he’s raised northwards…
Business/Robbery etc
It really is the greatest moral challenge of our time – and it’s not climate change. It is nationality versus…
Green notes
Renewables fail to pay their way The problem with continued calls for ‘sense’ in the Australian energy market including a…
Lies and the death of democracy
Words matter, concepts matter. Without a shared understanding of language we’d live in a world of chaos. Truth, in other…
Indigenous voice?
It’s Naidoc Week in Australia, and this year’s theme is: ‘Voice. Treaty. Truth. Let’s work together.’ As the locals are…
Morality managers
Financially rewarded beyond the wildest dreams of rank-and-file Australians, some of the nation’s managerial elites are labouring under a delusion.…
Ghostbusters
Last week the miserable ghost of Malcolm Turnbull put in an apparition at the Friends of Wolper Jewish Hospital. Presumably…
Lefty lawyers, Part 2
Last week I noted that the lawyers of today, as a class, are a lot more left-leaning and politically correct…
Abolish the arts degree (and start again)
In addition to my full-time job as a commercial journalist, I sometimes teach English to high school students, usually in…
Media onslaught against Trump backfires
What? ABCTV, without sneering, covered Trump at the Osaka G20 last week and with Kim Jong-un the other day. So…
Our universities are dying
Examples of how universities have been captured by politically correct groupthink and cultural left ideology abound. Bettina Arndt being denied…
Turnbull, the G-G, Porter and Dutton
Scott Morrison’s election win saved Australia from many perils: from much higher and even more wasteful government spending; much higher…
The noose around Australian businesses
In Greenwashed: the strange triumph of eco-Toryism, (The Spectator Australia, 15 June), Ross Clark describes how Conservative party leadership contenders…
Conscience rules, OK?
Two problems with Scott Morrison’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill. First, what does it mean for those who make a stand…
Business/Robbery etc
Now that Adani’s Carmichael mine in remote central Queensland is, after nine tempestuous years, under way since at last getting…
Another Sampson blinded in Gaza
Hooray for Pallywood, or rather Gazallywood, that wonderful melange of misleading footage, falsehoods, fakeries and frauds that makes up so…
Privilege points to prejudice
The other day I checked my points balance. I felt ashamed by how high it was, and wondered what I…
Go fund yourself!
In 2009, on ABC’s Q&A, host Tony Jones asked host of Channel Ten’s The Project and practising Muslim Waleed Aly…
