The casting couch is not the most comfortable seat in the room. You could say it is downright uncomfortable, especially…

Sneers and insults were the response de rigeur from the uninformed to Tony Abbott’s speech a couple of days ago to the Global…

Maybe there are folks out there in plebiscite land who believe that there are no robust intellectual arguments against same-sex marriage or, if there are…

One of the paradoxes in the world today is that day-to-day life in a communist country like China is much…

A couple of weeks ago, the human face of the modern sexual revolution, Hugh Hefner died in the Playboy mansion…

To repeat the well-used words and heart-stopping sentiment of many parents of teenage children, “Julie, we’re so disappointed in you”.   It was surprising to see Bishop…

Nothing says desperation more than calling on the Bob Hawke to do your selling and evoking the memory of a…

Cockiness to the point of crazy-brave has been a Hellene characteristic down the ages (the Greeks were Hellenes before they…

There is something very wrong with Western culture today. At first, it seemed only as if in gradual decline, but…

A wise man once told me watching business people talk about economics is like watching a dog walk on its…

David Sergeant chilling piece “What’s changed in Britain since same-sex marriage?” describes the way in Britain the anti-marriage revolutionary agenda…

So many promises: each as useless as the last. What is the point of the ABCs overhaul of current affairs…

For some weeks now in Thailand I’ve been teaching English to teenagers with a disability, many of them in wheelchairs…

Watching the Conservatives fall apart over leadership gives me uncanny déjà vu after Australian politics. In the last eight years, Australia has…

I run Britain’s oldest conservative think tank, the Bow Group, and in 2012 I opposed the then Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposed Same-Sex…

The Department of Environment and Energy – a strange marriage if ever there was one! It would seem one of…

On the south side of the Ditch we’re living in The Present, a time that American poet Billy Collins identified…

EXCLUSIVE You’re a political party who appears to have reached – gratuitous Club of Rome reference – the limits of…

Many people are likely to have had a lightbulb moment that made them realise our universities are in trouble. Over…

Peter Van Onselen is a timely reminder that the ‘academic aristocracy’ is alive well in our land. He recently tried…

It was with great lack of joy that I came back from five weeks in Europe to find out that…

Yesterday abortion provider Marie Stopes Australia announced that it “is searching for “brave philanthropists” to bankroll a $3 million fund for women…

Environmentalists probably don’t realise that they anthropomorphise nature. But academics like Christopher Neff should know better. He designed a survey,…

Last week, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 was introduced before the Legislative Council of New South Wales. In one…

It sounded like good news at first. Attorney General George Brandis announced he’s commissioned a review of the family law…