Features Australia
Galileo wins court case
‘Vindicated. The score is 17-nil, the judge’s findings were damning. It could not have gone better,’ Professor Peter Ridd explains…
Business/Robbery etc
Tell him he’s dreamin’. There is no way Bill Shorten’s 50 per cent hike in capital gains tax will raise…
Do Labor intend to ‘recognise’ a terrorist state?
The designation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a terrorist organisation would have major implications for Australia’s foreign policy and…
The dambuster
Even after 52 years I can still vividly recall Dr Barnes Wallis, inventor of the ‘skipping’ bombs which breached the…
Barry did a naughty thing
It is a truth that ought to be universally acknowledged that the one thing missing from modern comedy festivals is…
Our lady of Paris and our man Folau
Is it too much to hope that in our multicultural society there might still be found space for the culture…
Rocket science
The news has finally reached us over here in London. Australia is going to have an election. The choice will…
Compensating abuse
Here’s a piece of news you won’t get from the ABC or the ex-Fairfax press. It concerns the gold-and-wool-rich provincial…
Whatever happened to the flapping butterfly?
The confluence of mathematics and science provides us with proof and certainty. It is also beautiful: think of Einstein’s theory…
Whiffy-leaks
If fish and visitors stink in three days, as Benjamin Franklin advised, it’s easy to see how Wikileaks founder Julian…
Aussie Maggie
It is an irony and paradox that successful conservatism often requires radical solutions. So it was with Margaret Thatcher’s revolution…
A prayer for the West
Symbolism matters. It’s why the Muslim call to prayer rang out across New Zealand after the Christchurch massacre, and why…
Smoking out the neo-coms
Among the many considerable services Tony Abbott has rendered Australia, one was to persuade the late Paul Ramsay to endow…
Sleepwalking to oblivion
‘Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If…
A Defence Force slowly dying
The Australian Defence Force is shooting itself in the foot over political correctness. But venturing opinions on PC is reminiscent…
Why not ‘Welcome to Christianity’?
Imagine the outcry by the inner city limousine Left and the free-trade, almond latte drinkers if the Victorian Labor government…
Let’s deplatform the deplatformers
When controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson toured Australia and New Zealand in February, tickets sold out in days. In Brisbane,…
Six sins of Shorten
The impending federal election will be a referendum on economic policy, the like of which Australia hasn’t seen since 1993.…
Business/Robbery etc
The contribution to Australia’s cultural life by my old friend and long-standing colleague Peter Coleman demonstrated that to be an…
Doomed yoof
Asians need not fear the Australian Labor party, but they should lock up their kids. Labor ‘yoof’ is on the…
Black and white clouds over New Zealand
The Christchurch mosque massacres of March 15 brought out the best and the worst in New Zealanders. The best was…
Vale Peter Coleman
William Peter Coleman (15 December 1928 – 31 March 2019) was that increasingly rare creature in contemporary Australia, a great…
Useful idiots at the ABC
ABC’s Four Corners remains proud of Sarah Ferguson’s three-part nothingburger last June about President Trump’s Russia collusion – its ‘story…
Sneak peek
When Rone first conceived of Empire – his vast sensory installation in an abandoned Dandenong Ranges mansion – he never…
Electric fantasies
A looming Australian federal election and the increasingly bitter carbon wars have resulted in a series of campaign promises that…
