When you don’t have real stories; when your “journalists” aren’t experienced or credible enough to get real stories — or…

It’s my fault. I should not have been browsing The Guardian Australian website. There I was, minding my own business,…

In one of his many colourful metaphors, Prime Minister Billy Hughes once described Australia’s first female Federal parliamentarian as “like…

The GayBC has become a creature of its own imagination. Observing incandescent staff delight from its far-right commentators – Phillip Adams, Barry…

Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie is only the latest politician to mistakenly suggest that Australia Day celebrates the arrival of Captain…

It seems that sex is on everyone’s mind these days. There is, of course, that great free intercourse provider, otherwise…

The Victorian Police’s decision to issue a bill to the promoters of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux’s speech event in…

Our political class are being seen more and more as arrogant and as out of touch as the French aristocracy…

‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Or so Lord Byron said – and if anyone would know, it’s…

As Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies at ANU, has been telling us over the last few years, the world…

Trump Derangement Syndrome is flourishing on the bestseller lists – Bob Woodward’s Fear, anyone – but not so much on the…

One of the rituals of the federal Budget cycle is the release of a final budget outcome for the preceding…

I’m horrified to see sensible people I know organising prayer vigils for “Aboriginal deaths in custody”. This is alarmingly gullible…

If there is one thing that a variety of media provides, it is diversity of detail and greater transparency. That…

The recent fatalities at the Defqon.1 music festival have spurred renewed calls to allow pill testing and a growing chorus…

The first thing I noticed was Malcolm’s suit. Immaculately dressed at those daily pre-coup press conferences most days he seemed…

The NHS Trust in the town of Walsall, east of Birmingham in what was once the heart of Britain’s industrial…

You all know of course by now that you can’t appropriate other cultures’ artefacts, but did you know you also can’t…

When that Serena Williams cartoon appeared, The Age was deeply offended. One of its ragtag crew of perpetually po-faced columnists,…

Once upon a time – actually, not that long ago, think the seventies — we actually had reasonably good, working…

How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you…

While Australian federal politics remains discombobulated about alleged bullying in the parliamentary Liberal party, across the Ditch there’s been an…

A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – because it’s all about women. The joke…

Is renewable electricity cheaper than coal? A recent article by Stephen Long for the ABC had the tag-line, “The tipping…

Smartphones have become a big educational talking point. This year, the French government banned the use of mobile phones in schools, while…