So, Lyle Shelton has decided to become the federal communications director for the Australian Conservatives, and not, as The Sydney…

According to the ABC, these were the three top news stories when your correspondent logged on this morning: It’s amazing…

Canberrans are used to buying ‘ex-govvie’, from houses (not much on the market now) to pre-used chairs, desks, PCs, whiteboards and filing…

The Australian Medical Association is a very curious beastie. It is like a three-year-old child.  It only hears what it…

For some time now, debate over educational funding has revolved around the Australian Labor Party promising schools more money, and…

Cathy Newman’s train wreck of an interview with Jordan Peterson could well be one of the defining moments in how…

The Gap State High School in Brisbane’s west has made news because of its strict adherence to its uniform policy.…

Electric cars are the upmarket smashed avo. The perfect status signaller for inner city eco-lovers in their (fair trade) hemp-cloth…

To counterbalance the competitive pace of the digital age, and the cacophony of self-help gurus—always more voluble at the start…

For the last ten years or so, people have been credulously extolling the virtues of Finland’s education policies. Journalists in many media outlets have amplified…

In old time newspaper jargon, the gutter is the strip between the two pages – the gutter press means something…

Australians of all political persuasions rubbed their eyes and opened their curtains this week with one hell of a hangover.…

Global warming – more like global hotting at times – was a function of earth’s climate long before humans used…

In May 2017, British Labour leader and self-confessed socialist Jeremy Corbyn refused to commit to reducing immigration if he won…

On the meandering banks of Sydney’s Hawkesbury River, there lies a small, historic town featuring a sandstone church, a cemetery…

Underlying the campaign to change the date of Australia Day is a barely-concealed hostility to the very existence of Australia…

Thirteen years ago, Mark Latham led the Labor Party. He was the favourite son and chief representative of Labor values and philosophy.…

If you were a tourist attending the Australian Open, and you happened to have been perusing the papers in between…

Hungry young foreigners who crowd around the lavish food samples waiting to be eaten in Tokyo department store food halls…

You would think there is one TV show in the nation, which wouldn’t show the Greens up for the ludicrous…

When it comes to highlighting the extremism of the latest Leftist fad, The Conversation is the gift that just keeps…

I consider myself a feminist. But the word feminist has become so bastardised today by women calling themselves feminists that…

Earlier this week, NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes backed discussion of the “anti-sexual harassment movement” #MeToo in classrooms. Well, that’s…

As most Australians are about to celebrate Australia Day this Friday and other Australians refuse to celebrate the Invasion Day…

This has been around for a while. Nothing to do with Rumpole’s observation of his wife as “She who must…