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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Dear men, it’s time to quit work

25 June 2018 1:15 pm

In news we apparently all missed Australia is rich. As a country we have zero debt and therefore the marvellous…

When the left became louche

25 June 2018 7:51 am

I discovered a new word this week: ‘louche’. Just in case you hadn’t heard of it before either, according to…

Happy birthday Brexit, c’mon CANZUK

24 June 2018 2:56 pm

With the two-year anniversary of the Brexit referendum now upon the United Kingdom, the realities of a life outside the…

American mania

24 June 2018 2:55 am

America’s current crisis over illegal immigration, family separations and border policies generally, have highlighted and exacerbated the nature of America’s…

The real carbon crisis

23 June 2018 3:06 pm

We’ve got a real carbon crisis, people. Associated Press explains: No beer at this time of year? A British trade…

Tax cuts? What tax cuts?

22 June 2018 5:56 pm

The government has pulled a switfy. They’ve got everyone thinking they are going to cut taxes. They aren’t. Taxes are…

How identity politics programs for failure

22 June 2018 4:14 pm

Safe spaces. Cry closets. Emotional support animals. While Australian campuses are yet to import such features the notion of restricting…

The Ramsay Centre and how our academic appeasers censor students’ right to learn

22 June 2018 12:49 pm

The University of Sydney’s jellyback Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence has given many excuses for why he may not accept the money…

Donald Trump’s honest politics

22 June 2018 7:46 am

We are now a year and five months into the Trump presidency and the commentariat are still at a loss…

The concept of the university

21 June 2018 5:32 pm

David Long writes: In the December of 2001, a group of about 70  past students gathered in the St John’s…

Where have all our entrepreneurs gone?

21 June 2018 1:04 pm

Australia is has experienced a gigantic fall in entrepreneurship. Between 2003-05 and 2012-14, small business start-ups — as a percentage…

Memo Julie Bishop: get us out of the UNHCR

21 June 2018 7:29 am

Political leadership: leading the way on values with action. Doing what is right. Explaining and defending it clearly. Examples: this…

Faith, truth, love – and beauty

20 June 2018 5:20 pm

Of all the left’s grievances against western civilisation, few are as old or as constant as its demonisation of Christianity.…

Halting the transgender trainwreck

20 June 2018 12:48 pm

A new transgender trainwreck in Australia was announced this week. New guidelines published in the Medical Journal of Australia give…

The unifying message of Eurydice Dixon

20 June 2018 7:38 am

Thousands attended the candlelight vigil for Eurydice Dixon in Melbourne on Monday night. It was a gentle sign of unity…

How to deconstruct the gender pay gap

19 June 2018 2:40 pm

A curious trend is emerging from fashionable cafes all over the country, a trend to offer certain menu items as…

The deep state in deep do-do

19 June 2018 11:10 am

Honestly, Trump has got the worst enemies, as John Podhoretz observes: Trump is fortunate in his political enemies. He ran against the…

Wankery and Western Civilisation

19 June 2018 7:51 am

So, the fading prospect of a few dozen more kiddies quoting Locke and being able to distinguish between Mannerist and…

Unreasonable me

18 June 2018 7:49 pm

It is now perhaps trite to say that the centre-right has been too cowardly. But what about that the centre-right…

The 30-day hijab challenge

18 June 2018 2:06 pm

What do you mean you missed it? Ah well. You can always cover yourself in solidarity next year. ABC America…

The tiresome criticism of male critics

18 June 2018 11:21 am

Simply because Hollywood is disappearing up its own arse, do we all have to follow suit? Can no one think…

It’s the end of the world as we know it

18 June 2018 8:00 am

The most unlikely shaking of hands threatens to invert the world as we know it, but that may not be…

Turnbull Liberals can’t even spell the party name

17 June 2018 10:10 pm

The famous Menzies quote from Afternoon Light so beloved of the Liberal left begins “We took the name Liberal because…”…

Don’t forget the hosts

16 June 2018 6:16 pm

There was one not-terribly-well-acknowledged behind-the-scenes heroic figure during the Kim-Trump Singapore Summit. That was Singapore’s leader, the distinguished former Brigadier,…

Donald Trump and the fury of the impotent

16 June 2018 10:19 am

The public moral disintegration and demeaning of an entire cohort of people reached its zenith with the globally televised meltdown…