Hal Colebatch — lawyer, historian, poet, novelist — tells the story that, when speaking a few years ago to a…

One or two obtuse observers expressed surprise that Martin Sharp came in the end to embrace conservative values. He even…

Tony Abbott is right. Too much is being made of the Governor-General’s ‘injudicious’ support for republicanism and gay marriage. It…

The protest rally across the road from Parliament in Sydney was no lynch mob. They were ordinary, mostly elderly people…

In his call to arms at the black-tie dinner in Sydney Town Hall celebrating the Lowy Institute’s tenth anniversary, Rupert…

Good to see the names of another 11 writers added to the Circular Quay Writers’ Walk in Sydney. But can…

The offence of the Greens, especially Adam Bandt, in blaming the bushfires on Tony Abbott is not that they politicised…

The cheers of 180 celebrants (at $290 a head) echoed across the moonlit harbour from Pinchgut Island to the Opera…

Neither ‘Albo’ Albanese nor Billy Shorten will be the next Labor prime minister, according to John Howard. This is partly…

At Julia Gillard’s triumphal rallies, her ecstatic audiences applauded the idea that her valour in standing up to misogyny will…

David Marr, the celebrated journalist, has done it again. First he psychoanalysed the rabid Kevin Rudd in his essay Power…

Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…