It’s time to quit complaining about the supposedly terrible state of politics in Australia. If the perfect market is achieved…

Clearly spurred on by Mark Powell’s excellent piece this morning on the decline of its Sydney sister, The Age has…

In a time where government expenditure is a staggeringly high, the war on drugs needs to be tackled with more…

I really miss the Sydney Morning Herald. And I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. I miss those halcyon days where…

Working as a journalist has always had its hazards. Follow the story and you may find yourself in some uncomfortable…

Last week, Buzzfeed reported that Steve Tourloukis, a Canadian father prominent in advertising by the Coalition for Marriage, “asked for…

On Friday, 12 October 1917 many had walked barefooted to the Cova da Iria in Fatima, in central Portugal, to…

Labor voters are the most considerate, salt-of-the-earth people you’re ever likely to meet at a polling booth sausage sizzle. How…

If you were told that the Cancer Council along with the Australian Medical Association were campaigning for more cancer, you…

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…