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…

There once was a time when we, Australians and Americans, used to have a good laugh at the countries of…

John Howard, for the very reason that he was one of our best and longest serving prime ministers, remains the bête noire of…

Fairfax columnist and ABC Drum presenter Julia Baird is drawn to forceful, opinionated public women.  Baird is writing a biography of Queen Victoria, and in a column this week…

“This is what would happen if Australian halted immigration”, the introduction to ditzy Fairfax economics correspondent Jessica Irvine’s latest bleatings…

Traditional marriage campaigner David Van Gend recently did that most rare of things – he defended the freedom of his…

The presence of body art is more prominent today than it has ever been before. What explains this new desire…

The University of Melbourne Student Union is an oh-so-democratic body that left-aligned student groups vie to control so they can…

Sydney University staff already skip off to Syria to help Bashar al-Assad with his propaganda ploys and get involved in…

Last week The Australian editorialised on Australia’s immigration policies, noting that the Prime Minister’s “reception this week at an invitation-only UN summit on…

In a screening interview for a government job I was once asked about my religion. I said I was Jewish but not very religious;…