Australia is becoming a mock democracy; a demockracy. It is observable on a daily basis as some politicians, journalists and…

Forget the tyranny of low expectations. The opposite happens at The Age. As its standards plummet, the paper soars to…

Where is Professor Triggs when you want her? How could the Turnbull government be so mean and petty and also,…

Last Friday, Fairfax ran a report by Latika Bourke on my talk to the Centre for Independent Studies, as the so-called…

Was it William Shakespeare who wrote, “Put a lawyer into uniform but it cannot a soldier make”? Perhaps not, but…

Unbelievable. Absolutely un-be-f*cking-lievable. Read the ABC’s obituary of Fidel Castro, the “romantic revolutionary”. Not one mention of human rights abuses.…

‘Stop firing’ screamed the Afghan interpreter metres away from a suspected Taliban leader as he emptied his magazine towards a…

What was that Paul Keating was saying about the ABC only yesterday? Something about the broadcaster “letting Australia down” in…

I had finished work the previous day in preparation for a fortnight of paternity leave.  My wife was on the…

Wednesday’s edition of  7:30 included a fascinating piece on the campaign of the Chinese government to make China the world…

Don’t tell the Greens, but I’ve gone to Israel. After possibly the best midnight flight to Jerusalem since Mohammed’s horse…

On November 28, East Timorese celebrate the anniversary of the day in 1975 when their country was declared an independent nation and they raised…

You’ve really got to hand it to mainstream media commentators – often wrong but never in doubt. Their spectacularly inaccurate…

As a long-time republican, I made the decision last year to join the Australian Republican Movement. Having spent the better…

Writer Benjamin Law used the final Q&A for the year to claim discussion around 18C was just our privileged class…

Cato the Elder would end every speech with, ‘Carthago delenda est’; ‘Carthage must be destroyed’. Rome had defeated Carthage in…

Monday’s long awaited passage of the Registered Organisations Bill has been touted as a much-needed win for the Turnbull Coalition…

I feel many reading this will know of families that have been interwoven from their past through to their present so first a…

Of all the political imperatives missing in Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party, loyalty, unity and personality rate among the highest.…

Australian political commentators and self-proclaimed experts who have been traumatised or shocked by Donald Trump’s victory could well be accused…

In the UK, what gets people talking passionately isn’t Brexit. It’s not Trump. It’s not even the May government’s looming Autumn Statement mini-budget…

If there is word such as Trumpism, then it is expressing itself in Australia via the rise of Pauline Hanson’s…

Could that be former Safe Schools supremo and general hard-left ratbag Roz Ward engaging in a bit of biff in…

You would have thought that with the egg on their faces over Brexit and the American election, the media would be…

Last month Paul Kelly wrote an interesting article about Britain’s future under its post-Brexit Prime Minister Theresa May, based on what he rightly called May’s “historic speech” to the then…