In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Bondi massacre: can the waves ever wash away our government’s failure?
What happened in Sydney over the weekend was all too predictable. On Sunday, Chabad of Bondi organised an event for…
You can’t share a country without sharing a culture
Assimilation is a dirty word in modern Australia
How Australia become a sanctuary for the Islamist global insurgency
While Australia sent over 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan – with 41 killed, hundreds wounded, even more with invisible scars –…
After Bondi, it is time to take on Islamist antisemitism
I remember it like yesterday. The airmail letter came from Bondi Beach. Over 40 years earlier, my childhood school friend…
We failed you, Anne Frank
‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’ – Anne Frank…
Why are the Australian’s moderators more timid than its writers?
I have been struck by the striking contrast once again in the robust discussion that one can find in the…
The paradox of tolerance manifests at Bondi Beach
December 14 was the darkest day for Australia in my 30-year lifetime. Islamic extremism struck at the heart of the…
The threat we refuse to name
There are dangers a society can screen for and dangers it cannot. Metal detectors catch knives. Infrared cameras detect weapons.…
The tide has gone out at Bondi. Will it ever rise again?
Yesterday’s tragedy at Bondi has hit hard. As the gravity and horror sinks in, we will all feel much worse…
The struggle against terror and extremism
After the uprising of radical leftist forces and extremist Islamist groups in 1979 and their seizure of power in Iran,…
When Chanukah light meets Australian darkness
At 6:47 pm on the first night of Chanukah, Bondi Beach felt unrecognisable. For a moment, it recalled something far…
Old hatreds have infiltrated Australia, and we let them in
From Cologne: I’ve just been to the City Museum in Cologne where the collection attempts to grapple with Germany’s past…
The mysterious assailants at Bondi
Australia is a censorious and increasingly secretive nation. In such an environment, clarity matters, especially in moments of public trauma.…
Bondi Beach mass shooting terror attack: what we know so far
ASIO confirms one gunman known to authorities
One Nation’s conservative conversion
There are rumours that One Nation is head-hunting another two Coalition members. If true, this is Reform behaviour. Nigel Farage’s…
Frosty relations
Treasurer Jim Chalmers made a song and dance about Antarctic investment earlier in December, obscuring the deteriorating situation in Australia’s…
