Australian schools are struggling. Performance results are going backwards. In global terms, Australia is losing to Kazakhstan in the report…

A week is a long time in politics.   Last week started with Bridget McKenzie becoming the Blockbuster Video of politics:…

Some 172 years ago Karl Marx opened the modern era of politics in proclaiming that a spectre was haunting Europe.…

Yes, folks. It’s true. Adam Bandt loves Frozen. Or Frozen II, to be precise. The Greens leader has done what…

Interesting musings from the economist Maarten Boudry on the topic of inequality, in a post titled “Is extreme wealth a…

In an article sure to sort the sheep from the goats, Dr Michael L Brown (who is about to tour…

On January 30 The Spectator Australia published an online opinion piece by Ms Bettina Arndt containing references to journalist Ms Nina Funnell.…

ACTU secretary Sally McManus believes Australia’s enterprise bargaining system is “broken”. While Jennifer Westacott, CEO of the Business Council of Australia…

On Q&A on September 23 last year, Kerry O’Brien answered a question from an audience member about climate change. Speaking…

The incongruity made as much of an impact as the poster itself, on a wall along with a few other…

Dinner parties, animal rights and newly defined crimes against Mother Nature top the list of woke stories this week. But…

Richard Alston was minister for communications for around half the life of the Howard government. In that portfolio, he made…

Despite global economic headwinds, international institutions — often with exclusively economic missions —are increasingly sliding their priorities out of whack.…

In a recent Spectator Australia article and subsequent interviews with Alan Jones and Graham Richardson, I summarised that ‘eucalypts are…

As soon as the recent Nationals leadership spill confirmed that Michael McCormack would remain the leader of the party by…

It was the autumn of 2013 and the Australian car industry was struggling under the weight of currency parity with…

There is a way to win elections that has nothing to do with performance. I am reminded of this when…

The phrase “Liberalism is a mental disorder” can be dismissed as simply a conservative smear. But as the current election…

What do you need to know about Adam Bandt? He’s a twit. A hard-left twit from the inner-city — such…

Politics is the natural stage for egotists, narcissists and attention-seekers. So it was no surprise today to see Barnaby Joyce,…

Eight hundred and fifty dollars for a table? And all the proceeds go towards? Still nothing about where the proceeds…

Talk about testing times. In the lead up to the federal election last May, Scott Morrison made an artform of…

Welcome to the most bizarre night in Australian politics since the well-refreshed Tasmanian Liberal Bruce Goodluck wandered into an evening…

So, the Arab League has rejected the latest United States Middle East Peace Plan. So, what’s new, I hear you…

Richard Di Natale this morning announced his retirement from politics, and his reasons make me want to stand up and…