As the wintery Northern Hemisphere suffers through a surge in coronavirus cases, Australians feel the relief of low numbers and…

I grew up in Sri Lanka during a time of civil war. Anyone who criticised the Sinhalese-dominated government disappeared. And…

Beyond the shameless partisanship and lack of trustworthy professionalism lies a deeply disturbing truth. The mainstream US media — and I include…

Letitia Wright is a talented, award-winning Guyanese actress who has broken the glass ceiling in superhero cinema and Hollywood. There’s…

The Duke of Wellington, one of England’s most celebrated and honoured military figures responsible for defeating Napoleon at the Battle…

When the Prime Minister announced his five-point industrial relations package in May a senior adviser told me “This is not…

In a recent Flat White item, Where is Australia’s conservative intellectual movement?, Jonathan Cole and Simon Kennedy argued that Australia, in contrast to both…

Dear Dr Farrelly,  Thank you for your opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald from last Saturday. You mention important issues…

First there was the book, now there is the “documentary” film version of French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capitalism in the…

“Not a good look.”  “Bad optics.”   “Doesn’t pass the pub test.”  Such are the statements by which many controversial or complex ideas…

The chair of one of the nation’s largest restaurant chains, Mary Sum of the Plate Group, has announced that its…

We all know that the media has been hijacked by the left. As 2020 draws to a close, I’ll happily…

Guess which state or territory has the worst credit rating?  Before answering, let me explain what a credit rating is.…

The demand by Australian unions to turn, it seems, all jobs into ‘permanent’ has been mugged in the blink of…

Around 2,500 years ago, Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu wrote his masterpiece, the Art of War.  This treatise is…

A World War I slogan in the Kaiser’s Germany proclaimed ‘When the bayonet goes in, it should hit steel, not…

Policians are finding it hard to think straight when it comes to gay conversion laws. Take Victorian Liberal MP Tim…

Ten years ago Ted Baillieu broke the Liberal’s post-Kennett electoral drought by leading his party back into power in Victoria. …

The legacy news media appears determined to nail down its own coffin-lid, as its former viewers and readers are forced to seek…

The days of women merely fighting for equal opportunity have long since ceased. According to Christina Hoff Summers, the goal of…

We really are in a post-truth era of politics; and for a change, Western Australia is leading the pack instead of trailing 30 years behind.…

Pop. That is the sound of the pin of reality piercing the inflated balloon of Australian economic wishful thinking. Fresh…

The September quarter national accounts released last Wednesday have been interpreted by some commentators as heralding the end of the…

Today, Monday 7 December, will be a day filled with trepidation for Victorians and all Australians. Today is the day…

Social stigma is a damaging phenomenon. It occurs when people are associated with negatively viewed events, beliefs, and social phenomena…