I love whales. They are beautiful, majestic – and delicious. And they – or rather this post – will lose…

It seems the Greens in NSW have taken a breather from taking pot shots at one another to go back…

The day before Tadashi Nakahara was killed by a shark, I was surfing at the same location. It was late…

On 27 November 2007, the legal hammer fell on Massachusetts’ resident David Parker as he lost his court battle to…

Lachlan Macquarie. The name of New South Wales fifth governor is now the subject of controversy, its owner branded a symbol…

Attempts by government to push power prices down is nothing but a “distraction”, according to the genius analysis of Mark Kenny…

Welcome to gendered violence groundhog day.   Yet again today it’s reported more funding is being dedicated to “women and families fleeing domestic violence.” …

Earlier this month, parents at Forestville Public School in the Northern beaches were invited to watch their children perform in…

The Reserve Bank of Australia has all but conceded that Australia is trapped in a debt and asset price bubble…

BOSTON – UNITED STATES The word of the week over here was ‘iconoclasm’. Estimable journals have been dropping it, from…

Remember when Sarah Hanson-Young was stripped of her immigration portfolio last August?   Here is the reason why.   SHY appears to believe…

The LGBTI liberation movement needs to be humbled, and the best way to do it is to vote ‘No’ to…

In the modern era, the role of the doctor has moved away from a paternalistic one and more towards an…

Before we start tearing down statues of Captain Cook and Governor Macquarie in a misguided attempt to atone for Australia’s…

There exists in German a wonderful word, both oddly haunting and untranslatable: Geschichtsmüde, which translates into something roughly akin to…

In a few weeks, the Victorian parliament will consider a law change to permit assisted suicide. Is such a dramatic…

There are few pleasures greater than the freedom to wander amongst the historic cultures of yesteryear, marvelling at how the…

Oh dear, nanny state researchers are out and about again, finding fresh angles to demonise those of us who enjoy…

My blood ran cold. A woman – I assume she was a woman – came towards me in a burka…

Much to my wife’s unease, I sat down with my four-year-old son the other day and watched The Wizard of Oz, which,…

Earlier this year, fifteen Greenpeace activists illegally accessed a ten-storey high coal stockpile at the Port of Newcastle. They put…

Ok, not quite — but the Queensland party has released a policy to “fix the rigged system that treats renters…

There appears to be some confusion. Many people appear to believe that anyone who questioned Pauline Hanson’s bizarre actions in…

I usually don’t bother reading articles with titles like ‘The (X) Case for (Y)’, where X = a right-wing ideology…