With apologies to WB Yeats and Joan Didion, the lost, snookered souls of the Australian electorate are now slouching, not…

The suspension of English cricketer Ollie Robinson for poor form – not on the field but on Twitter — should…

As the inimitable Sir Humphrey Appleby once opined, “Minister, two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don’t…

If there is one thing that to be learned from NSW in the last 18 months, it is the fact…

First, they came for the Christians and I complained a bit, then they came for the lesbians and I was…

The Spec Oz has been warning about this. Now it’s official. Scott Morrison stands for nothing. The Sun-Herald and Sunday…

The Queensland government is denying vaccinated parents of a newborn the right to see their baby while, at the same…

The Ginger and the Whinger have welcomed a daughter into the world, Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. We should all be…

Where to start?  Twitter outdid itself over the weekend when it ditched any semblance of modesty and decided to identify…

Strap on your masks and break out the hand sanitiser – The Dan Show is back for a fourth season, sans Dan!   Debuting…

Prince Harry wants to talk about his childhood and work out whom to blame. So do I. I grew-up in Mount Waverley and they really were…

Education Minister Alan Tudge gave a speech at the annual Universities Australia conference yesterday. Here is how the AFR education editor described what…

If a story would not stand up in court, it should not be published.   It certainly should not be published…

What a difference a year makes. Sir Richard Dearlove, the MI6 chief (‘C’) from 1999 to 2004, was first interviewed on the UK’s excellent Planet Normal podcast almost exactly a year ago. His…

If you ever catch a cuppa with an Australian federal or state politician who is out of government and in…

For the first time in five years, an Australian politician has acknowledged a bleeding obvious fact about the way we…

Every cloud has a silver lining, and corona craziness is providing a unique insight into how the nawabs of nannying,…

Just because it’s Gay Pride Month—yep, there’s so many varieties on the LBTIQ+ spectrum they couldn’t just have one day—in…

According to its Code of Practice, the ABC “has a statutory duty to ensure that the gathering and presentation of…

Covid-19 has so far caused the deaths of near three and a half million globally and led to significant social and…

The Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021, and reports that the Queensland Government will include mental suffering as a criterion,…

Not content with her discovery of the elusive “pizza box” strain of coronavirus, South Australia’s chief public health officer Nicola…

Soccer is one of the most popular amateur sports in Australia.  Out of the shadow of Covid-19, we’re expecting a…

The late Liberal leader Billy Snedden is well-known for his declaration after the 1974 election “We were not beaten. We…