Late this afternoon, the Turnbull government lost a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives, 61 to 69.…

In 1995, I was there when, one question time, John Howard’s reinvigorated opposition so niggled prime minister Paul Keating that…

David Marr appropriately titled his Quarterly Essay on Bill Shorten, ‘Faction Man’, for the Labor leader was shaped by the…

I am a small business. Things are not exactly great and the world isn’t flush with funds and every dollar…

So, how’s the ABC responding to Barnaby Joyce’s little spot of bother? With all the class that you’d expect. Its…

Bill Shorten probably can’t believe his luck. The Liberal Party has spent the entire Winter break and the first week…

High energy prices are causing Australia to deindustrialise. Earlier this month mining giant Glencore’s chief Peter Freyberg’s called for the…

What do German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon,…

It is a thesis of Media Watch Dog that no one really runs the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.  Not the chairman…

Australia could – and should – play a vital if silent role in the (literally) frightful face off between the…

Children are once again being used in an aggressive Green/Left campaign aimed at imposing a hard line secular orthodoxy, contrary…

The sturdy snowball of the feminist driven domestic violence industry is accumulating more and more layers of funding. What a…

This morning The Australian reported ABC staff had been warned to zip it over marriage equality: ABC News Editorial Policy…

A refreshing note of practicality, even sanity, was injected into the sound and fury of the same-sex marriage debate this…

The outstanding success of the South Australian government of giving their people the highest power prices in the world is…

The major parties, unions and the bureaucracy have declared economic war on young people which threatens to create an invisible…

Same-sex marriage off the agenda? Here is my politically incorrect list of what any right-of-centre political party in Australia needs…

The Open Letter from Christian Leaders to Premier Daniel Andrews on assisted dying has drawn criticism from ‘the usual suspects’.…

For nearly thirty years I served as a university college head in four different institutions.  Before that I was myself…

When Bill Shorten gave the keynote address the Australian Republican Movement annual dinner last month, Peter Fitzsimons gushed at how…

The two major political parties may well be goofing around playing a tag game of dumb and dumber at the…

Watching Liberal senator Dean Smith on the ABC’s Insiders on Sunday morning, I was impressed by the quiet and dignified…

What would Sir Robert Menzies have made of attempts to conscript his name to the cause of redefining marriage in…

Researching history with the hope that your research will eventually turn itself into a book can take you places. It’s…

It’s been a big week for Fairfax Media and The Age — a big week in their decline. First there…