Melbourne journalist Benjamin Miller writes in Fairfax Media on African crime “A mature society can talk about these issues in…

Is it he or she? Him or her? In the real world away from the keyboards and our smartphones, gender…

Last week something insignificant occurred that may in future assume greater importance. Just like the defenestration of Prague, which started the Thirty…

A message of great joy from Chinese Peoples offering fondest salutations and joyous liberation to Australia on your national day.…

Six years ago, I graduated from Normanhurst Boys High School, a selective school in New South Wales. I was awarded…

‘Who has been too scared to express their opinion in a tutorial?’ I asked a room packed with students last…

Musicians get quite touchy about their music. It is their baby after all, and who wants their baby touched by a…

People who wondered what the fuss was about when Milo Yiannopoulos visited here should read Dangerous, in which he shreds…

Aziz Ansari went on a date. Now, his reputation is ruined. That’s how rapidly the hateful #MeToo flames can take…

Einstein said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The…

Inhale and all chant together – the Greens have failed at 2018. Watch through half closed eyes and you’ll observe…

Martin Luther King Jr’s character and life offer a stark illustration that only a few saints and monsters walk the…

Aboriginal people in the ACT are receiving a similar level of government funding to those in Western Australia, despite having…

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — now in the thirteenth year of his four-year term — has delivered a “wide-ranging”…

In the last few minutes (history time) some white dudes, notably the Greens, have taken it upon themselves to speak…

When I heard that The Greatest Showman had received negative reviews in the media, I knew I had to see…

Once upon a time, New Year’s resolutions were the purview of the individual. You made an unwritten pact with yourself…

Contrary to the latest fashionable dogma, character is not everything in politics. It has its place, of course. But character…

Some decades ago in Canberra, your column writer toiled in what was then termed the Ministerial Correspondence Unit, a team…

I had a shock recently when I read an article in the New York Times that wasn’t critical of Donald…

Some feminists are ditching the pink “pussy hats” as the symbol of the “resistance”, but not because they’re silly: The reason:…

Since federation in 1901, Australians have always known bicameral governance. With the nation’s constitution largely based on the American founding…

Chelsea wants to run. No, the other Chelsea: Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in…

When you’re about the begin the final year of study and totting up a daunting debt in fees it’s not…

Not so long ago American feminist, Naomi Wolf, did an international lap of honour to celebrate 25 years since the…