Features Australia
Woolf works
‘What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you,’ Virginia Woolf composed in…
Batteries fail to spark
Elon Musk is such a good salesman that, despite formidable and blindingly obvious problems, he has managed to convince everyone…
Ideological evasion
Malcolm Turnbull’s speech to London think tank Policy Exchange on 11 July provided an insight into his government’s ideology, and…
Tony, Donald and the X Factor
Ernst Bertram’s study Nietzsche: Versuch einer Mythologie was published in 1918, but its first English translation, under the subtitle Attempt…
Business/Robbery etc
July is a wonderful month, blessed by federal parliament not sitting and so temporarily depriving the Turnbull government of opportunities…
Economical with… free speech
The Spycatcher trial established Malcolm Turnbull’s reputation at the time as a brilliant champion of free speech. Personally, reviewing a…
Tim’s anti-White Australia Policy
Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane’s latest push to embed grievance-mongering identity politics at the heart of the nation’s institutions threatens…
Bob Carr has no shame
Does he have no sense of shame? Is there nothing he won’t do to defame Israel, or the local Jewish…
True selves
News of a world-first designation of a gender-free baby in Canada will come as no surprise, but should come with…
Aux bien pensants
Boxers, Accountants & Emperors In cleansing the Liberal Party, their anti-corruption consultant has scored another victory. The latest culprit is…
Three crises
Commenting on Tony Abbott’s recent Perth speech in Quadrant, Keith Windschuttle identified three crises ‘which, taken together, represent a national…
Done to death
‘I’m bored!’ declares my companion while yet another naked body is hoisted – like Jesus – onto a makeshift cross.…
Lords a-dancing around Taqiyya
In Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe the British House of Lords, which ‘did nothing in particular, but did it very well’,…
Simone
Canberra, 2026 Simone entered the kitchen, hips swaying. ‘House goddess’ – this was her walking style. David had selected it,…
Point of no returnbull
The first duty of a leader is to keep the team together. This is Malcolm Turnbull’s biggest failure. The federal…
Verwoerd looking
The late Allister Sparks (1933-2016), veteran political reporter and book author, in the year before he died, reflected on some…
The flibbertigibbet Pope
After two Popes of towering intellectual and spiritual strength, it is difficult to become used to the fact that their…
The peaceful majority are irrelevant
Islam has exported its primitive, age-old and endless Sunni vs Shiite war of religious violence around the world, expanding it…
On a sensitive issue
In 1939 Paul Hasluck published ‘Our Southern Half Caste Natives and their condition.’ It was a pamphlet based on a…
A penance or a curse
If the UK general election had been a military battle it would be taught in Army staff colleges around the…
Business/Robbery etc
What’s left of Australia’s manufacturing industry needs to get its political hands dirty. If it really wants to survive it…
No pie in the sky
The authoritarian attitude of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has been challenged by Robin Speed, the President of the Rule of…
Deadly self-censorship
Political correctness is eating itself. It’s in very real danger of destroying us, and will do so while apologising for…
True Islam
Each new Islamic terrorist atrocity is denounced by western leaders such as our Prime Minister as a ‘twisted’ or ‘perverted’…
Men of violence
Almost every other Aboriginal woman I know has been subject to family violence. It is in fact rare for an…
