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

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…

Another swamp that needs to be drained

15 June 2018 7:25 pm

Did you know that the Inspector General, the United States Justice Department’s watchdog for the FBI, released his report yesterday…

Towards a national register of engineers who are registered

15 June 2018 1:57 pm

Growth is good. Growth is essential. When company executives say that, however, they are talking about growth of productivity, or…

Dorothy Hewett: even libertines need limits

15 June 2018 10:27 am

Dorothy Hewett is the perfect illustration of what happens when feminism turns feral. The Sydney Morning Herald has said that…

Launching ‘Howard: The Art of Persuasion’

15 June 2018 7:56 am

Speech by the Editor, David Furse-Roberts. Tonight’s occasion and this book is all about honouring a great Australian and a…

Will the Cormack-Liberal jaw-jaw lead to more war-war?

14 June 2018 7:15 pm

At the moment I’m re-reading AJP Taylor’s classic The Origins of the Second World War. In his uniquely lucid and…

World Cup winning aid scamming

14 June 2018 2:28 pm

In many circumstances, poor people in the developing world would actually be better off if their dictators gave their foreign…

Stuff happens

14 June 2018 12:33 pm

Everything is inevitable. Stuff happens. This is how international relations work. The US-North Korea summit was always going to happen…

Gender point scoring – what’s the point?

14 June 2018 7:49 am

What is the point of all this gender point scoring? Male models wore prosthetic baby bumps at a London Fashion…

Why I support Dark Mofo’s inverted crosses

13 June 2018 8:53 pm

The proper way to understand the giant inverted crosses as part of Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival is not an expression…

Since when was Sydney in the Adelaide Hills?

13 June 2018 5:50 pm

Georgina Downer is not everyone’s cup of tea. Even some usually conservative types aren’t sure if the folk of the…

Trump haters, get over it

13 June 2018 2:03 pm

Everything about Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un’s meeting was surreal but lefties acutely bitter reaction is illogical. Yes, we should…