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Stuff happens
Everything is inevitable. Stuff happens. This is how international relations work. The US-North Korea summit was always going to happen…
Gender point scoring – what’s the point?
What is the point of all this gender point scoring? Male models wore prosthetic baby bumps at a London Fashion…
Why I support Dark Mofo’s inverted crosses
The proper way to understand the giant inverted crosses as part of Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival is not an expression…
Since when was Sydney in the Adelaide Hills?
Georgina Downer is not everyone’s cup of tea. Even some usually conservative types aren’t sure if the folk of the…
Trump haters, get over it
Everything about Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un’s meeting was surreal but lefties acutely bitter reaction is illogical. Yes, we should…
The Kim ‘n’ Donald Show
As the Good Book says, by their fruits ye shall know them. Summits mean nothing, their consequences everything. We should…
Has Dark Mofo lost its mojo?
Dark Mofo is one of those pretentious displays of artistic expression that make most people roll their eyes and sigh.…
This is going to end well…
Who guards the guardians? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes and all that. The Daily Caller has the answer: Four of the world’s biggest…
The Singapore spectacular
With the President-for-two-terms of the United States, Donald J Trump and the President-for-life, Kim Jong Un actually in Singapore for…
Nukes 101 with Kim Jong-un
Kim Jong-un’s nuclear bluff looks like working. He and President Trump are on Singapore soil as I write, preparing to…
Why we should celebrate Australia’s refugee policy
As someone who grew up in a church community that welcomed refugees to our country from places as far afield…
Abbott was right to fight the left
Australia’s former prime minister, Tony Abbott is blamed for nearly everything these days. Higher rates of suicide amongst LGBTIQ youth,…
Maybe it’s not academic freedom, but the wrong name
The debate grinds on. Last week Australian National University Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt, an astrophysicist who probably never imagined things could…
Who really won the sexual revolution?
Chivalry is a virtue, but only when exercised responsibly. Unfortunately, men have so gone overboard in their chivalry that many…
Our universities and more…
I suspect a fair few readers are pretty incredulous about the whole Peter Ridd saga at James Cook University. Ridd…
Deft diplomacy beats foreign aid
Two recent incidents have called into question the role of Australia’s foreign aid program. Indonesia raised eyebrows last week, after…
The great undiagnosed dysrationalia epidemic
I have long wondered why really intelligent people, like Malcolm Turnbull, say, and others, fail to see how irrational it…
Time to end the closed shop of ideas at university
Imagine, if you will, a parallel universe in which the ANU accredits the Ramsay Centre. The Centre produces a mission…
Sick of news
We’re sick of news, apparently. I can’t say I’m particularly surprised: If you feel like there is too much news…
What Tony Abbott really meant about western civilisation
Because we can criticise episodes of the abuse of power by Western nations or the descent to nonsense by those…
Feminists ride the judicial power wave
Everywhere you turn there is a culture clash over the sexual revolution. Consent laws are currently being reviewed in NSW,…
Jordan Peterson and the “homo liberatus”
Like many young men who are inclined to the right, I have recently become a fan of Jordan Peterson. I’m…
The true minimum wage
Talking about a minimum wage is not the same as discussing increasing wages or increasing standards of living. These are…
Meanjin’s #MeToo snafu goes nuts
It’s clash of the virtue signallers over in the left corner – and this time it’s beyond parody. Here is…
Why is the ANU afraid of what made us great?
The Australian National University is so ashamed of our own cultural heritage that they have refused to offer a degree…
