Features Australia
Cursed by their own art
Why do all our favourite, talented (e.g. Jim Carrey, Richard Gere), much acclaimed film stars (e.g. Meryl Streep, Sally Field)…
We don’t need no enculturation
What is the purpose of education? The question is rarely asked as school funding dominates the debate along with the…
‘Til we build Jerusalem
The two most commonly heard observations by Australians who visit Israel are firstly, that the country does not resemble the…
Business/Robbery etc
An act of utter corporate bastardry – but there was no alternative. When the Commonwealth Bank’s new duo of chairman…
Churchill’s shameful heirs
It would be difficult to imagine a more cowardly and contemptible action, or one heavier with the promise of long-term…
Aux bien pensants
Next year in Jerusalem Scott Morrison has no alternative now but to move the Australian Embassy from Tel Aviv to…
Terror’s wet nurse
There is a famous fable that if you threw a frog into a pot of hot water it would immediately…
LGBTIQX-men
Stan Lee’s contribution to modern pop culture was nearly without comparison. His creations in the pages of Marvel Comics –…
My plan for a new Korea
Trump does not nibble, he leaps, to high ground or low. North Korea is an issue ripe for a Trump…
Illuminating
The Bruce Munro interview
Very public health
I’ve known health minister Greg Hunt for over twenty years. When he is convinced about something he doesn’t hold back…
No guilt, no apology
Convicted of murder, Derek Bromley can teach us all a lesson about saying sorry when we are not guilty. And…
Business/Robbery etc
Beware of lawyers making recommendations about regulating the business community; they will inevitably lead to more business – for lawyers.…
Sisters aren’t doing it for themselves
Every era has its noble lies – the ideas that underpin a civilisation. The noble lie of contemporary culture is…
Labor’s quagmire of incompetence
A standard political tactic (of all sides) is to paint your opponents as inhumane or wreckers and wilful destroyers of…
And then there was one…
Exit, stage right, Ross Cameron. Sky TV has fired its second Outsiders host. This time the charge was racism and…
Australians do support recognising Jerusalem
The brouhaha that followed the federal government’s announcement that Australia will consider moving Australia’s Israeli embassy to Jerusalem continues to…
Hollow man of the Left
There are two types of people in political parties. One type joins a party because he or she thinks that…
Milo’s hope and the Latin pope
There’s a long tradition in this country of washed-up troupers from overseas turning up on our shores for a gig,…
Trump, guns and Gab
When Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and gunned down eleven Jewish victims, his purpose was…
Gender workers of the world, unite!
‘Surely you mean sex,’ I told the Vice-Chancellor and the other Deans. It was 30 years ago and I had…
Business/Robbery etc
Is it a bridge too far leading to the destruction of the profit-based entrepreneurial capitalism that has brought us our…
Morrison in the middle
So here’s a big picture question for all of you readers who see yourselves as generally being right-of-centre voters. What…
Forget the ABC, go for the three Rs
Whoever is eventually appointed to run the ABC, it’s Ultimo to a brick there’ll be no change in the corporation’s…
Charles Darwin’s latest voyage
Gazing over the grand central gallery in London’s Natural History Museum – over the thousands of punters that visit daily…
