State governments have now taken control of electricity policy from the Commonwealth. Although state control potentially allows alternative approaches to…

To be honest I really couldn’t believe what I was seeing.  For all the spin-doctoring, the hundreds of thousands paid…

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan isn’t a native sandgroper. He’s from Newcastle and only washed up in the West thanks…

Dr Jill wants to be Dr Phil, that is the question: whether you are a wanker for calling yourself a Doctor when you’re…

Wandering recently through an arcade popular with the green smoothie set, I saw a sign boasting: “Plant Based Meat”. Someone…

Thanks to Israeli scientists we now have a psychological profile of a large section of our population and the body politic: A…

Another review of the retirement income system has come — and it seems, gone — without clearly having achieved its…

The naked cynicism of the union movement has been laid bare in its attack on the Morrison government’s very modest…

Question: How many trans activists does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: The same number that it takes to…

Joe Biden is not meant to govern. If he manages, and whatever he manages, that’s all well and good, and…

It appears the United States Supreme Court has snuffed out Donald Trump’s last chance to save his Presidency. This is…

Mainstream Australians are being failed by the political class as the gap between two Australias continues to widen. This failure is…

Waleed and Scott are two of ABC radio’s intellectuals.  Doubtless, they’d correct me to say they are ‘the’ two intellectuals at…

As the wintery Northern Hemisphere suffers through a surge in coronavirus cases, Australians feel the relief of low numbers and…

I grew up in Sri Lanka during a time of civil war. Anyone who criticised the Sinhalese-dominated government disappeared. And…

Beyond the shameless partisanship and lack of trustworthy professionalism lies a deeply disturbing truth. The mainstream US media — and I include…

Letitia Wright is a talented, award-winning Guyanese actress who has broken the glass ceiling in superhero cinema and Hollywood. There’s…

The Duke of Wellington, one of England’s most celebrated and honoured military figures responsible for defeating Napoleon at the Battle…

When the Prime Minister announced his five-point industrial relations package in May a senior adviser told me “This is not…

In a recent Flat White item, Where is Australia’s conservative intellectual movement?, Jonathan Cole and Simon Kennedy argued that Australia, in contrast to both…

Dear Dr Farrelly,  Thank you for your opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald from last Saturday. You mention important issues…

First there was the book, now there is the “documentary” film version of French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capitalism in the…

“Not a good look.”  “Bad optics.”   “Doesn’t pass the pub test.”  Such are the statements by which many controversial or complex ideas…

The chair of one of the nation’s largest restaurant chains, Mary Sum of the Plate Group, has announced that its…

We all know that the media has been hijacked by the left. As 2020 draws to a close, I’ll happily…