Recently my mother and I had to decide whether our 16-year-old dog required surgery. The need was clear, without going…

Since the formation of the Australian Conservatives, many of my hand-to-God conservative mates have been passing around a quote from…

As you read this it will have been half a year since Mr Turnbull and the Coalition limped back into…

Cory Bernardi is the worst sort of politician. He is the sort of politician who makes it plain that he…

You thought Fairfax got carried away when the Abbott Clerical Dictatorship (© Gerard Henderson) came to power? Since The Donald…

So Cory Bernardi has finally done it.  Today he leaves the Liberal party for his own vanity project, taking the six-year…

Australia’s federal parliament isn’t normally associated with sex, drugs and dance parties and nor should it, because they’re rare occurrences.…

The first British (and Australian) monarch to spend sixty-five years on the Throne, today Her Majesty the Queen celebrates her ‘Blue Sapphire…

“The ABC is letting Australia down in terms of news presentation,” Paul Keating declaimed in typical style late last year.…

Since Tony Abbott’s ouster, the Liberal bosses’ efforts to purge conservatives from power has been in stark defiance to global…

Lofty notions of free enquiry, open debate and tolerance are paid no shortage of lip service in Australian universities. In…

ACTU President Ged Kearney last year took to the stage at the International Labor Organisation conference to make an impassioned…

Last Wednesday, attentive readers may recall, Prime Minister Turnbull gave a Press Club presentation designed to re-start his government. It…

One of the most obvious features of the parliamentary inquiry into section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act has been…

Back in November, just after the presidential election, Neil Brown wrote a cracker of a column for the Speccie. It…

It’s impossible to say for sure whether this business about a phone call between Turnbull and Trump is true. It smacks of…

How will you be able to look your grandchildren in the eye and tell them you didn’t do anything about…

Last Friday, the University of Western Australia Student Guild voted overwhelmingly in favour of changing the date of Australia Day and proposed to…

Bruce Springsteen offered a sombre and evocative description of the toll taken on the typical rustbelt community by decades of…

An education policy that doesn’t include lavishing more money on schools? Outrageous! That’s been the common response to the federal…

If you’re not wearing the wristband, do you really believe in it? It’s an existentially fascinating question in our age…

Scott Morrison returns to his desk this week with enthusiasm for company tax cuts reinforced by impressions gained from an overseas…

BOSTON, UNITED STATES — The anti-Trump alarmism is getting a bit tiresome. At this point, we have to assume the…