If you’re lucky enough to live in Melbourne, you may be unlucky enough to occasionally read The Age. While people…

The Greens are close to tightening their grip on political power in the basket-weaving enclave of inner Melbourne with Olivia…

When I was five, my father bought me a “women are not chicks” t-shirt (I wore it on rotation with…

Self-confident democratisation within established political parties turns the tide against weak membership and enhances electoral prospects. These are the lessons…

A mixture of horror, dismay and disappointment amongst my right-wing Facebook friends greeted Tony Abbott’s UK Diary column in this…

Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles must be sold. Not because it’s a bad painting or because it fails the Australian test,…

This is a big deal for someone who was heavily involved with the Women’s Collective at university and helped to…

Voters in the ACT have a stark choice this weekend: Jeremy Hanson and the Canberra Liberals, or four more years…

Compare the pair: This day is call’d the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,…

What limited protection we have in Australia for free speech, is based on the concept of the ‘reasonable person’. In…

According to Buzzf… I mean News.com.au – sorry, for some reason I often make that mistake lately – The Project…

While it hasn’t garnered a lot of attention outside of Canberra, this weekend is the ACT Election and the choice…

The only important question in the American election is this: who will make the better president, Hillary Clinton or Donald…

Andrew Jaspan – the malevolent Mancunian media marvel – has done it again. He’s set to be booted from The…

  Le economiste fashioniste, Thomas Piketty, is in town and my generous wife thought tickets to his talk would be…

Why hasn’t The Age been all over this? It’s the ultimate Melbourne inner-city accommodation experience, surely? Either that or a…

Good on Victorian Liberal Senator James Paterson for his media campaign to sell Jackson Pollock’s drunken daub, Blue Poles, to…

Clinton: ‘It’s a good thing that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law…

NAPLAN FAT TESTS—Students as young as nine would [sic] take fitness exams so schools across the country can be ranked…

‘I’m back’, and with these two words, Pauline Hanson stated the bleeding obvious as she delivered her maiden speech in…

Edmund Burke seems to have gone out of fashion a bit, and as a man who still listens to Oasis…

Poor Jack Walker, probably soon to be an ex-adviser to Christopher Pyne. Not only has he and his eight Sydney…

Milo Yiannopoulos, the social media agent provocateur banned from Twitter for mocking the star of the oh-so-PC, all-female Ghostbusters remake,…

Long hours, bad coffee, average hotels and Virgin Lounge popcorn instead of a home cooked meal. It ain’t glamorous. It…

You all know the lines from Brecht: After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union…