What Katy Did is the heart-warming story in the Louisa May Alcott Little Women genre of a plucky and spirited Mid-Western girl who overcomes…

A pathetic little man dressed in a dark suit scurried beside me in my aisle seat four rows from the…

I have no idea whether or not Geoffrey Rush is innocent or guilty. And neither, probably, do you. To his…

The Judas-half of the Liberal Party that backed the Turnbull coup and destroyed the Abbott prime ministership now needs to…

In many ways, it’s astounding that their ABC recognises Christmas at all. It is an explicitly Christian celebration, after all,…

Watching Fairfax’s and the ABC’s outraged and breathless coverage of the violent Left protesters outside the Melbourne venue for the…

Mike Pence, the current Vice President of the United States, has been mocked and ridiculed for following the revelation that…

When Malcolm Turnbull emerged victorious after the great 2015 leadership spill, his victory speech hinted at a liberal government that…

The ancient Greeks had a saying, “Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad’. Political madness seemed…

Australia must avoid delivering justice through ‘trial by media’. Across the western world, a sweeping phenomenon is now underway to…

When Herschelle Gibbs dropped Steve Waugh in the 1999 Cricket World Cup one of the most misquoted quotes was born.…

At the end of last week, the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English convened in Melbourne for its annual…

The Senate must decide the Dastyari question now. It’s more than about one senator. It’s about the control and influence…

In September, the first 54 of those remaining refugees on Manus Island and Nauru departed for arrival in the United…

American lawyer and politician Gideon J Tucker once observed that ‘no man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the…

Newspapers can be shameless — think of some tabloid campaigns — but the lack of self-awareness of the dying Age…

I have long wrestled with the themes behind Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous lines “If you gaze for long into an abyss,…

If truth is the first casualty of war, then banks are the first casualty of populism – even in a…

In Wednesday’s Australian Financial Review, public health academic and media commentator Simon Chapman came out in strong support of a…

George Brandis has always been a good speech-maker. Yesterday he delivered another good speech, probably one of his better ones,…

I’m pleasantly surprised that Sarah Hanson-Young condemned Milo Yiannopoulos for being a ‘paedophilia apologist’ – which he undoubtedly is. The…

Allen & Unwin’s recent decision to drop Clive Hamilton’s book on Chinese Communist Party influence in Australia — citing fears…

In the much loved and long-running television series Happy Days, when the Fonz literally jumped a shark that a whole…

Does anyone in the Greens actually engage their inner sage before they virtue signal? That may well be a rhetorical…

Someone else has recently conducted a non-binding plebiscite, which produced a 60 per cent result that divided a nation –…