When I signed up as a member of my university’s Liberal club, it was for good reason. It was 2011…

I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning, and Twitter always is pungent with its bitter almond aroma. Today…

Theresa May is doing counter-populism right. The Tories have just released their manifesto for the June election, and it has every strength the Liberals’ depressing,…

A report just released this week shines a shocking, fierce and heartbreaking light on where domestic violence thrives in Australia. The statistics make difficult reading – and…

Midnight in Jakarta but shops are still open, people meeting up and I’m sitting at a pavement café with three…

Theresa May is headed for a triple-digit majority in parliament, just two years after the Tories cobbled together a government…

There is a news picture of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop that sticks in my mind. Bishop, lithe, agile (that word again!)…

If you had a wound that was gushing blood onto the floor and your doctor prescribed a mop and bucket,…

The Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs has finally found freedom of speech she would like to defend – Yassmin…

Just when I thought Daniel Andrew’s socialist government’s mind-boggling insanity in Victoria couldn’t get any worse, we’re now hearing reports…

“Welcome to the New South Wales education system,” said Liberal Legislative Councillor Peter Phelps, “where students can be told ‘it’s OK…

The housing measures in the 2017 Budget present a great case study in how expectations can be mismanaged. The government…

BOSTON, United States — Even if the president and his staff are completely innocent of collusion with Russia, Trump’s done…

During the Treasurer’s Budget speech, some of my friends like to play the Budget Bingo, downing a shot for an…

Rejoice, yes rejoice, all good people. The strike at Fairfax is over. The journos we so missed are back at…

So the economic narrative of the Turnbull Government has come to this. A ‘tax and spend’ Budget that is more…

So much can be said about the 2017-18 federal budget — little of it complimentary — it’s hard to know…

Well-informed Flat White readers will be aware of the two abortion bills before the NSW Parliament, and the remarkable petitioning effort against it…

One of the delicious ironies of politics is the tendency for one side to admonish the other side for doing…

I’ve been lamenting that for too long we’ve had no sensible centre in Australian politics, effectively ceding the political debate…

Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull have been far too clever by half with year’s budget. Yes, they’ve moved to blunt…

Have a look at how much money the ABC gets in tonight’s budget, but before you do have a look…

Language constantly evolves to match the evolving society. Words get old and become obsolete, new words come in to enrich…

Sometimes former Labor leaders become libertarians. This is how we’ve started the week, with Mark Latham joining the Liberal Democrats…

The federal budget comes out this evening and, in what can heart-warmingly be described as a bipartisan tradition, the ‘heroes’…