Why has there been such a long-term decline in maths and science learning in our schools, and in the qualifications…

Animal rights group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was the winner of the 2016 Nanny State Awards, for…

Jessie Margaret Noble, formerly Dingle, died in Bundaberg last week, November 29, 2016 to be exact. She was 97. Who,…

Almost 30 years ago, fresh from Hawaii, I visited my daughter’s grade one class in Brisbane to show off my…

On Tuesday afternoon, Victoria’s upper house of Parliament voted down the Labor Government’s Equal Opportunity Amendment Bill. The Bill was…

It has been a dismal year for the commanders and foot soldiers in Australia’s war against so-called hate speech. In several recent ground operations, the massed forces of contemporary…

There’s a photo taken in South Africa after Nelson Mandela’s funeral.  Three Anglosphere PMs, Tony Abbott, Canada’s Stephen Harper and…

The restricting of freedom of association and freedom of religion is back on the agenda in Victorian Parliament this week.…

What’s gone wrong in South Australia? For much of the population, not very much, really. Most services are quite good, infrastructure development has…

At the recent Queensland state Labor conference Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the government’s commitment to a human rights act, modelled…

BOSTON, UNITED STATES — The Alt-Right hysteria sweeping the Western world is as overwrought as it is alarming. On the…

There’s no business like show business, as the old song goes – and no feminism as purely exhibitionistic as the…

In 2008 Australia developed a ‘Joint’ Agreement with the PNG Government in regard to the management of the Kokoda Trail…

It just goes to show what a topsy-turvy world we are living in where somebody who believes that life is…

My primary school teacher used to swear by Jove to emphasise how impressed he was when one of his pupils…

I’m sure you were all up late on Wednesday night eagerly awaiting the publication of the latest OECD Revenue Statistics.…

We are all racists now. Noel Person tells us so. The “hard bigotry” of Quadrant conservatism has merged with the “soft bigotry” of the ABC. The two have met in “the common…

Malcolm Turnbull and Michaelia Cash have boasted that the long-awaited passage of the Government’s ABCC bills is a ‘fundamental economic…

No countries have a closer relationship with Australia than New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. We have shared history…

As Australia’s political year fizzles to an ignominious end, the political oddity which is One Nation continues as the gift…

The latest international maths and science results suggest that Australia is a slow learner when it comes to improving school…

The Greens have relaunched their drug policy, with party members approving Richard Di Natale’s proposed changes at their national conference in…

The ABC asks all the important questions like “Should you tell your kids the ‘truth’ about Santa?” – and answers them: “Is…

I’ve been floating the idea of hoaxing The Guardian for years now. The plan was to pose as some emotionally…

Last week the good people at Centre for Authoritarian Ideas – otherwise known as the Grattan Institute – released a…