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 –…

The “voluntary Assisted dying” legislation appears set to pass both lower and upper houses in Victoria. However, let us call…

The Sydney Morning Herald’s Mark Kenny crowed. Australia’s “self-appointed conduits to the metaphysical” -– its Christian clergy — have been…

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work — Thomas Edison The…

Despite all his rhetoric to the contrary, Malcolm Turnbull really isn’t concerned about protecting civil and religious freedoms. In what…

Voters in Bennelong who need to front up to the polls once again may be surprised – and perhaps unimpressed…