Guess which state or territory has the worst credit rating?  Before answering, let me explain what a credit rating is.…

The demand by Australian unions to turn, it seems, all jobs into ‘permanent’ has been mugged in the blink of…

Around 2,500 years ago, Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu wrote his masterpiece, the Art of War.  This treatise is…

A World War I slogan in the Kaiser’s Germany proclaimed ‘When the bayonet goes in, it should hit steel, not…

Policians are finding it hard to think straight when it comes to gay conversion laws. Take Victorian Liberal MP Tim…

Ten years ago Ted Baillieu broke the Liberal’s post-Kennett electoral drought by leading his party back into power in Victoria. …

The legacy news media appears determined to nail down its own coffin-lid, as its former viewers and readers are forced to seek…

The days of women merely fighting for equal opportunity have long since ceased. According to Christina Hoff Summers, the goal of…

We really are in a post-truth era of politics; and for a change, Western Australia is leading the pack instead of trailing 30 years behind.…

Pop. That is the sound of the pin of reality piercing the inflated balloon of Australian economic wishful thinking. Fresh…

The September quarter national accounts released last Wednesday have been interpreted by some commentators as heralding the end of the…

Today, Monday 7 December, will be a day filled with trepidation for Victorians and all Australians. Today is the day…

Social stigma is a damaging phenomenon. It occurs when people are associated with negatively viewed events, beliefs, and social phenomena…

In 1869, a “well-meaning” Victorian government passed the Aborigines Protection Act under which Aboriginal children could be taken from their…

According to Tim Flannery’s Climate Council, Aborigines ate the megafauna, so highly flammable scrub grew up and they had to…

The first images I saw of the Great Barrier Reef were in 1980s television news reports warning that the crown-of-thorns…

Can I interest anyone in a festive tea-towel?  The Australian Greens are flogging a new range optimistically titled ‘legends’ featuring…

I hate to admit it, but there seems little point trying to hide the obvious. We’re losing the war on…

Only a small handful of people can trigger the Mad F***ing Witches. Rupert Murdoch, is up there, obviously. Ditto most ‘conservative white…

A Twitter incident from Wednesday last week reveals a few interesting things about the Queensland state government and modern politics…

Jimmy Barnes is better known for his screaming than for his expertise on foreign affairs which, of course, makes him…

Grey-haired Australians can sit on their porches and yell at lawn-trespassers to their heart’s content. But they need to stop…

As any toddler will tell you, there’s usually a way to get what you want. There’s a magic word to…

With only weeks to go before the final Coate Inquiry report into Victoria’s shameful hotel quarantine fiasco is released, things…

Cognitive dissonance, thy name is Victoria. How else to explain a state in which the miscarriage of a wanted baby…