Sometimes you need to take a step back from the rapid, racing political commentary and chuckle at the bogus make-believe…

There appears to be a general consensus among self-described conservatives that environmental protection should be placed way down any list…

All over the world, every minute of every day, men have affairs. Women, strangely enough, also have affairs. And so…

How did news of Barnaby Joyce’s shambolic personal life, dodgy boss behaviour, and the Canberra media contingent’s ongoing collective sidestep…

From Fox News: Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips talked to students at New York City’s John Jay College, reading them quotes…

The threat by childcare union, United Voice, to strike next month over low wages reflects a bizarre belief that government…

I’m told, on good authority, that bed-time stories in the house of some school principals include a retelling, in hushed…

This is a story about a senior media figure and a younger woman who discovered, perhaps to her dismay, that…

There is an awful lot of ignorance about the English-born mercenary Henry Harbord Morant. Morant was executed for murder in…

The Greek historian, Thucydides, who lived through the Peloponnesian wars, wrote that: “The bravest are surely those who have the…

If politics is, as some maintain, Hollywood for ugly people, then lots of ugly people are having lots and lots…

The Greens are a party without principle or common sense. They’ve proved their lack of seriousness by their attack this…

With all the grubby reporting of a private matter between two consenting adults, the media pack, led by the Daily…

I have, in awe, seen a husband caring for his young wife—and their four children—in the last months of her…

Trump sure as hell knows how to stir up the left: President Trump has asked the Pentagon to explore holding “a celebration”…

George Brandis’s parting shot in his valedictory speech to the parliament over his concern that ‘attacks upon the institutions of…

Oh Canada! Your Celebrity-in-Chief, Prime Minister Justin Castro, er, Trudeau, continues to deliver. Mostly laughs, though often you don’t know…

Whatever your views are on transgender issues, chances are, you’re not transphobic. Real transphobia involves irrational behaviour and denies trans…

Progressive taxation has been the default position of both major parties in Australia for decades, to the point where the…

A friendly senior doctor from a large hospital, Chris, told me he thought the introduction of euthanasia is inevitable –…

Every time data is released about enrolment numbers in public and private schools, it’s closely followed by a chorus of…

It’s not just that no one talks about government debt anymore – no one thinks about it either: It was another…

The Prime Minister is deeply unpopular with much of the Liberal Party base, pundits keep telling us, yet he is…

In a 1943 wartime broadcast on social security, Robert Menzies told the country that “there are amazing possibilities in every…

When discussing matters of free speech and offence, it is first necessary to draw a distinction between what is hate…