The Productivity Commission’s draft report into the evidence base for education confirms there has been little improvement in student outcomes…

Since Tony Abbott promised a plebiscite on same sex marriage the role of plebiscites in Australian democracy has been hotly…

Rod Dreher, the American traditionalist journo, has just published an important blog post that Aussie conservatives would do well to…

We live in an age of identity politics, and even in the identity-politics-rejecting right, it is still necessary to identify…

Opposition to free expression, a belief that in a Judge’s right to determine what is and isn’t acceptable, the promotion…

The Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association  — affectionately known as the ‘Shoppies’ – is under fire from employer groups…

Donald Trump’s absurd candidacy for the presidency has obscured the broad-based resentment at continuing levels of immigration and the problems…

Neil Mitchell to Malcolm Turnbull, 3AW, this morning: “If you can’t run the parliament you, can’t run the country.”  …

The problem that has sparked the Royal Commission on juvenile detention is much broader than the way in which children…

As Lady Bracknell may have said “To lose one vote may be regarded as misfortune”. And so it was at…

There have been several hundred Australian analyses of climate change policy and its costs and benefits.  Most have provided profundities…

As women, we are constantly being reminded that there are not enough of us in parliament. We are being looked down on and…

The poor old Grauniad Austria — The Guardian Australia, to non-media types. Not only did its parent, the Guardian Media Group,…

There’s a caricature for opponents of section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act. They’re supposed to be racists who are…

The Andrews Government in Victoria has set in motion regulatory arrangements that will permanently prevent hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and other…

The Prime Minister and the Treasurer must rue the day they allowed their public service advisers to talk them into…

Daunted by wading through the acres of newsprint about today’s first sitting of parliament since the election? Afraid of eye…

New tripe on the burqini ban, this time from Jennifer Oriel: “When the Syrian city of Manbij was liberated from Islamic State, women burned…

So here we are again. Federal parliament finally is reconvening, a mere four months since it last met and eight…

With our pollies going back to Canberra this week for the first time since the election Labor Senator Sam Dastyari…

“Our plan is clear”, the Prime Minister Facebooked after his appearance on ABC Television’s Insiders yesterday ahead of the return…

On last week’s Q&A, comedian turned mature age law student Corinne Grant shed light on perhaps the most compelling reason…

The WA Premier, Colin Barnett, needs to smarten himself up. He has every right to remind PM Malcolm Turnbull that…

Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has received advice from the Clerk of the Senate, Rosemary Laing, that the Senate and House of Representatives…