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Urban elites mustn’t ignore regional voices
It’s old news. Most who follow the thread of cultural and political “progress” recognise that those with the persistent temerity…
The hate campaign begins as #lovewins
Let to be known that on the December 7, 2017 – the day in Australian Parliamentary history when “love won”…
Your $720 ticket to Sydney’s superfluous stadiums
The NSW Cabinet’s decision to demolish and replace the functioning Sydney Olympic Stadium and Sydney Football Stadium with two new…
Thanks for considering a few billion women sluts, guys
Normalising “modest” wear. Afraid to be accused of bigotry or, even worse, being judgmental, media and business buy into the…
Making Victoria’s euthanasia laws: a process to be shunned
Last month, Victoria became the only jurisdiction in the world to have voted to legalise euthanasia in 2017. Why and how…
What Katy didn’t
What Katy Did is the heart-warming story in the Louisa May Alcott Little Women genre of a plucky and spirited Mid-Western girl who overcomes…
Milo’s mission to save Australia
A pathetic little man dressed in a dark suit scurried beside me in my aisle seat four rows from the…
Weaponising feminism
I have no idea whether or not Geoffrey Rush is innocent or guilty. And neither, probably, do you. To his…
Time to repent
The Judas-half of the Liberal Party that backed the Turnbull coup and destroyed the Abbott prime ministership now needs to…
Their ABC’s seasonal stupidity
In many ways, it’s astounding that their ABC recognises Christmas at all. It is an explicitly Christian celebration, after all,…
Milo Yiannopoulos insults conservatives along with everyone else
Watching Fairfax’s and the ABC’s outraged and breathless coverage of the violent Left protesters outside the Melbourne venue for the…
Hollywood hypocrisy
Mike Pence, the current Vice President of the United States, has been mocked and ridiculed for following the revelation that…
Time to wave goodbye to Turnbull
When Malcolm Turnbull emerged victorious after the great 2015 leadership spill, his victory speech hinted at a liberal government that…
Don’t dismiss John Barilaro
The ancient Greeks had a saying, “Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad’. Political madness seemed…
Trial by media sets dangerous precedents
Australia must avoid delivering justice through ‘trial by media’. Across the western world, a sweeping phenomenon is now underway to…
Dastardly Dastyari
When Herschelle Gibbs dropped Steve Waugh in the 1999 Cricket World Cup one of the most misquoted quotes was born.…
How our teachers score top Marx
At the end of last week, the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English convened in Melbourne for its annual…
Has the parliament been infiltrated? The Senate must act
The Senate must decide the Dastyari question now. It’s more than about one senator. It’s about the control and influence…
Why the left has it so wrong on refugee policy
In September, the first 54 of those remaining refugees on Manus Island and Nauru departed for arrival in the United…
The Turnbull government is punishing the poor
American lawyer and politician Gideon J Tucker once observed that ‘no man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the…
Bet that’s the last one
Newspapers can be shameless — think of some tabloid campaigns — but the lack of self-awareness of the dying Age…
Inside Lee Rhiannon’s post-purge party
I have long wrestled with the themes behind Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous lines “If you gaze for long into an abyss,…
The unnecessary royal commission
If truth is the first casualty of war, then banks are the first casualty of populism – even in a…
Simon Chapman defends disruptive new technology
In Wednesday’s Australian Financial Review, public health academic and media commentator Simon Chapman came out in strong support of a…
This is why I despair…
George Brandis has always been a good speech-maker. Yesterday he delivered another good speech, probably one of his better ones,…
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