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…

The Queensland government submission to the Productivity Commission review of GST distribution suggests the Commonwealth government should share its income…

So the public health poohbahs are off and running in 2018.  The prurient puritans, the humourless harridans, the admonishing androids…

Following the death of Sir John Gorton on 19 May 2002, Christopher Zinn wrote in the Guardian that “Gorton left…

If we had been asked to name the most cuckoo council in Australia in 2017, Melbourne would have stood a…

On New Year’s Day, the Prime Minister was goaded into commenting on the prospect of opening up the debate on…

Just out, the first book to be published by the US-based Global Warming Foundation is by the Australian writer/researcher Bernie…

Federal MP Tim Wilson has labelled this article by Catherine Walsh from Friday’s Sydney Morning Herald, “peak stupid” on Twitter. And…

In last Friday’s Fairfax papers, Catherine Walsh called on Australians to “stop volunteering”. Why? She believes volunteering is a faux help, not resolving…

There used to be rules about diplomatic postings, rules ancient, arcane and complicated. Fluency in the language of the host…

The stars have all arrived at the red carpet for the 75th Golden Globe awards, most of them wearing black…

We all have that friend who we hang out with because they make us look better than we actually are…

This is it. The point of no return. There’s no going back. The once-mighty Sydney Morning Herald — and its…

There has been a trend afoot for a number of years to give people participation awards, particularly to children in…

Boy. Boy oh boy oh boy. Sorry for being so gender specific, so emphatically binary — let alone using the…

7.30’s new Melbourne-based investigative star and Walkley Award winner Louise Milligan reports on “African” gangs: Funny, that. Ah, so now…

The by-election wins in New England and Bennelong are cause for celebration in the Turnbull camp. Quite obviously, a crisis…