I hope you all have a good memory, because you are going to need it.  Modern political events are being…

I guess like me you’ve been more than a little shocked at the Republican “insurrection” in the United States. But…

May I recommend the brilliant writing and analysis of Kevin Williamson in the National Review? He recently authored this nugget titled Joe…

For almost one hundred years, Sydney women have been able to bathe at Coogee’s ladies-only pool, free from the prying…

Normally, I strut into a New Year full of motivation, inspiration and sass. Much like an underfed clothes horse down…

Now that it’s high summer, you might see a lizard, sunning itself on a rock. Lizards don’t just get their energy…

New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro has ‘kissed and made up’ with Environment Minister Matt ‘Green’ Kean after taking time…

After a contentious two-year term capped off by a tumultuous 2020, January 3 marked the beginning of the 117th Congress…

Last summer, BC — Before Covid — a friend and I strolled around Canberra’s university precinct, called ‘The China Quarter’…

Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, leads a crumbling and unworthy public sector that is working against the interests of those who…

Fresh from the Oz: Western Australian premier Mark McGowan has called on NSW to fall in line with the other…

There is no justification for the uniquely high-level of secrecy the Australian government has maintained throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A…

It has been fascinating to watch how different countries have dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic. Some nations have been nothing…

Drongo alert: this piece may contain traces of satire and irony. We have banned hate speech in order to protect…

Contrary to the aphorism and what you’re seeing in America, things don’t fall apart, the centre nearly always holds.   Despite what you read democracy…

Beneath the noise of America’s Capitol Hill protests lurks the silent rise of Silicon Valley.  Tens of thousands of social…

As Talleyrand famously said after Napoleon’s international kidnap and subsequent execution of the royalist Duc d’Enghein, “it was worse than…

There are two writers whose analysis I try to almost always read – Aaron Patrick in the Fin and Troy…

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and…

Many of us have watched with fascination and horror what has been unfolding in the American capital over the past…

Kerry Schott, head of the Energy Security Board, the most senior of the dozen or so Australian regulatory bodies, is…

In the battle of ideas, idiots are seldom useful. Look to Vladimir Lenin, who is reported to have coined the term…

Author’s Note: my editor refused to remove his (its) comments. Apologies. Stand and applaud, a great injustice has been corrected…

Australian democracy faces a crisis of representation. People feel alienated from our politics and our institutions. Donkey votes are up, minor parties’ votes…

In a state with 8 million people in a city of 5 million, 49 locals this week contracted a virus…