The environmentalist creed in context Environmentalism, more particularly its prevalent global warming strain, dominates politics. It is the fourth such…

Just when you think all hope is lost for the Victorian Liberal Party to ever regain its conservative political roots,…

What did Julie Bishop really mean when she identified politicians as being members of the ‘political class’? It was rare,…

Eight weeks all up. Two of them on the well-trodden tourist path of Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur, but none of…

Thirty years ago I was teaching in a high school when a student brought in a very early mobile phone.…

One of the many perplexities of life is how some new scientific discoveries and insights quickly find their way into…

I used to correspond with Cardinal Pell. He was the only cleric in Australia who took a stand against the…

Germany could never have won the first world war. She was opposed by Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and eventually…

For quite some time, I have been concerned about the attack upon private schools, and in particular, those who are…

It is something of a rare delight to write positively about race relations in recent years. As such, these stories…

The Sydney Morning Herald’s Mike Foley tells us that 20 per cent of development applications relating to proposals ‘threatening koala habitat’…

Foreign Minister Penny Wong recently told an audience at King’s College in London that we should hear uncomfortable stories rather…

Last week, Australia’s children’s commissioner, Anne Hollonds, spoke passionately about the myriad impacts children and young people had endured due…

Are people involved in a spiritual enterprise when they think, and therefore, when they teach? This might seem a far-fetched…

Older readers may remember a TV show on the ABC in the 1970s called The Inventors. It was a bit…

If democracy is defined by majority rule, Australia is not a democracy; it’s a minocracy. The current Labor government attracted…

The Victorian division of the Liberal Party has done it again. Instead of going into the April 1, Aston by-election…

The Church of England, it seems, is hellbent on destroying itself from the inside out. Of the many objectionable suggestions…

‘It’s not a house… it’s a home…’ Darryl Kerrigan, The Castle. It was the mid-1990s, economically, the hard times induced by…

On many occasions, I have sought to alert voters in New South Wales to the extraordinary and reckless economic management…

There is a hardwood pier stretching out into the protected harbour where I live, styled to resemble a vintage port.…