Features Australia
Selling out the voters
The famous American author Mark Twain is rumoured to have once said ‘If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let…
Aux bien pensants
No wonder so many politicians live in mortal terror of being interviewed by Alan Jones. No one prepares more thoroughly,…
Boys and the biff
Readers might be surprised to learn that Dr Peter Miller and his team of eager researchers at Deakin University are…
The Left’s bad joke
After the atrocity comes the inevitable blame game. Hardly waiting to draw breath, Wajahat Ali leapt into print in the…
Whither withering democracy?
In June 1995 the New Yorker magazine published a long article by the distinguished American journalist Michael Kelly examining dissatisfaction…
Silencing Milo
The decision by the Federal Government Minister for Immigration to deny provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos a visa to enter Australia is…
Why we need the Muslim Reform Movement
My visit to Australia from the US was planned over a year ago for this week. In the immediate wake…
Media freedom long overdue
‘The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing…
Business/Robbery etc
Is it $8.5 million of BHP’s shareholders’ money wasted on a directors’ virtue-signalling frolic to further their climate change credentials…
In praise of Justice Fagan
One sombre fact of life in contemporary Australia is the steady flow of terrorism prosecutions in which individuals have been…
Germany’s schizoid approach to Israel
One would have thought that, for certain historical reasons, Germany today would show extra-sensitivity in avoiding appearances of anti-Semitism. However,…
My pencil knows best
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial ‘Who’s Afraid of Socialism?’ laid out the case that much of the US Democratic…
Super Justice Warriors
Captain Marvel, released to cinemas this month, is more than just another addition to the already saturated superhero film market.…
Judge dread
Let me talk about an example of an undemocratic trend from my home state of Queensland. A fortnight ago the…
Newspeak, translated
‘There’s not a good enough reason for Adelaide to be there,’ quipped ALP grandee Graham Richardson on Sky TV, inadvertently…
Education and the modern declaration
The 2008 Melbourne Declaration, endorsed by state, territory and commonwealth education ministers, is the strategic ‘road map’ that has directed…
Lies, groceries and feminist statistics
Successful politics is impossible without lies. Politicians know being truthful doesn’t work. Voters, for all their claims about wanting honest…
Prosecuting Pell
The important question is not simply whether the verdict in this case is sound but whether a responsible Public Prosecutor…
Bad riddance
When the Left talks derisively about ‘climate deniers’, they probably imagine someone very different from Dr Peter Ridd. Bearded, bespectacled…
Abbott – the next Liberal leader?
It might be a little unfair to describe the announced departures of very senior Liberals Julie Bishop and Christopher Pyne…
PM in the Last Chance Saloon
Australia, we’re told, will soon be under a government of thieves and constitutional vandals, pledged to change laws from the…
An instrument of unconditional surrender
In a previous article in these pages (Battle of Britain, Mk II, 1 Dec 2018) I argued that the European…
Royally irresponsible
Over the past year, a belief has taken hold that the main driver of wrongdoing in our banking and financial…
The tyranny of the minority
When police accused actor Justin Smollett of staging a hate crime, his left-wing cheer squad threw down their pom-poms and…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s like the farcical Fawlty Towers admonition not to mention the war; in the real world it could not be…
