In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Academic doesn’t hate Israel enough shock horror fury
More tragi-comedy from the letters section of that perpetual yearbook of the Class of 1968 (Head Boy – Tariq Ali), The London…
Threats of Aboriginal terrorism will do irreparable harm
Most Australians are pretty generous. They want to do the right thing by this country’s first inhabitants, especially when it…
Recycling is rubbish
Recycling is rubbish. Not in the sense that the stuff we recycle is rubbish – which it is, of course…
Because only the right do nasty, wicked things, hey?
The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher is worried about the power of twenty-first century lynch mobs: Even if you think the NRA deserves what…
How government destroyed cheap electricity in Australia
You know something is wrong when a country with over 33 per cent of the world’s Uranium and abundant reserves…
The radical politics of Black Panther
Black Panther opened in Australian cinemas recently and it certainly does not disappoint. It’s the eighteenth movie of the Marvel…
Mr Trumble comes back from Washington
Monday morning the VIP aircraft carrying the returning PM’s entourage touched down on home soil and Australians began to wonder,…
Billy Graham: a titan of faith and freedom
Reflecting on his wartime leadership, Winston Churchill remarked that with the nation having the lion’s heart, he “had the luck…
Their ABC: at it again
And here we were in the reality-based community thinking it would be hard for even the ABC to trump last…
In defence of Tasmania
It feels a bit odd that someone like me, a native-born Canadian who has lived in Queensland for the last…
Barnaby’s concrete-assisted trolley ride crashes to an end
“Perhaps the biggest scandal in Australia political history? Made only by the fact it was managed like a shopping trolley…
Does anyone in politics do any work?
Sigh. Another day, more sex scandals in politics to finish off an eye-rollingly unproductive week. What exactly is the brief…
Why Australian Conservatives will not split the centre-right
Go or stay? That is the question for disenchanted Liberals pondered by The Spectator earlier this month. Nationals’ supporters may…
Riding the dragon with Bob Carr
The ‘little dragons’ of southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Thailand, Laos and Indonesia share the same problem Australia has with…
Joyce is still showing more leadership than Turnbull
Anger being hurled at Barnaby Joyce is misplaced; even now he’s showing more leadership than Turnbull could ever dream of.…
Workers lose from One Nation weakness
One Nation positions itself as pro-Australia but the party’s opposition to company tax cuts shows it is short-sighted and weak…
Haven’t we paid Hillary enough already?
Sleep easy, Queenslanders. You’re already laden with ferals protesting Adani. Tasmania, you’re the birthplace of the Greens. Our sympathies. Western…
The fallout from Poland’s misguided Holocaust law
My grandfather made the lifesaving decision to leave Poland for Australia shortly before World War II broke out. However, for…
Why do feminists hate femininity?
It’s only February, and already the wheels of the online confected outrage cycle are well and truly turning. In an…
Liberty and America’s gun culture
Freedom is not an unalloyed good. It allows people both to flourish and to make mistakes. Freedom, then, can never…
Sex and the capital city
From the large headings, multiple columns and country themed caricatures appearing in newspapers spread across kitchen benches and shaken out…
Danger: America dreaming.
The other day The Wall Street Journal carried an op-ed praising America’s immigration project written by two academics, Tellis and…
I dare an ABC journo to check just one fact of global warming
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (our ABC) – the main source of news and information for Australia’s ruling elite – often…
What was that about a gun, Senator Di Natale
Greens leader Richard Di Natale and his faithful amanuenses at the ABC and Fairfax Media have been hyperventilating since George Christensen’s harmless, if…
What about the right not to strike?
It seems the lines have been drawn for 2018 as Sally McManus and the ACTU declare there is a war…