Features Australia
On aspirational edubabble
The Melbourne Declaration published in 2008 is the road map that education ministers and state, territory and commonwealth bureaucracies have…
Hidden eco-cost of batteries not included
The climate is changing – by how much and by what cause is still up in the air. But, that’s…
Disgustation
‘Would you like the cat consommé?’ The waiter passes me a spoon. I swallow the broth in one go, deciding…
Cross about cross-dressing?
Where is the parental rage to protect our children from an ideologically creepy Labor-Green government? Mums and dads across the…
Free speech: a right-wing conspiracy?
As a founding member of the United Nations, Australia played a pivotal role in the negotiation of the UN Charter.…
Business/Robbery etc
The Australian Financial Review last week stood out like an island of integrity in a sea of journalistic mendacity when…
Robotaxis to the rescue
Australia enjoys some of the least reliable and most costly electric power in the developed world. There’s some argument about…
Were the Del-Cons wrong?
Well, the election is almost here. In a little over a week we’ll know if Scott Morrison has pulled off…
Barbarians at the gate
Federal Circuit Court Judge Salvatore Vasta once described the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) as ‘the most recidivist…
The nutters we had to have
‘Every now and then you have to flick the switch to vaudeville,’ former prime minister Paul Keating once said, and…
National suicide note
This election is the most important since 2007 when the best prime minister since Menzies, John Howard, was so unwisely…
Preferring not to preference
There are certain predictable signposts on the road to polling day that are handy reference points for those tracking progress.…
Doomsday, again
‘NOW is Not the time for Business AS usual,’ read the grumpy boy’s placard as he munched on an apple…
One-world government
There now remains just two weeks of campaigning before we, the public, decide whether it will be Labor or the…
The climate cult’s human shield
Last Tuesday evening, I tweeted the following: ‘Can the Beeb arrange for Andrew Neil to interview this Greta Thunberg character?…
Shorten blundering to defeat?
The electorate shows little sign of being interested in politicians offering bribes, wearing caps, eating, playing with children, horsing around…
The essential Duchamp
‘The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and…
Truth, meet error
Recently at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, new university president Lawrence Bacow was blocked from giving his speech on universities and…
How can Shorten still be in the lead?
How is it that Labor, no longer the party of the worker but the voice of inner-city elites and millionaire…
The Curate’s NEG
It’s been all the fun of the fair as a 10-day long weekend gave voters a chance to observe the…
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…
