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Mardi Gras: coming soon to a shoppingtown near you

5 March 2018 8:05 am

Long before the floats paraded down Sydney’s Oxford Street, Maxi Shield and her ‘Queens’ were prancing through Pitt Street Mall.…

Michaelia Cash: no credit

2 March 2018 5:51 pm

Last year I was invited to a private fundraising dinner for a backbench Liberal senator featuring then minister for employment,…

Marriage a la mode and how infidelity became everyday

2 March 2018 1:59 pm

Marriage as an institution has changed greatly since the introduction of no-fault divorce in 1975. Quite apart from the recent…

Gender politics or progress? Your choice

2 March 2018 8:06 am

At some point, gender politics is going to have to calmly take a seat and let progress actually prevail. On…

The politics is proven, but is the science?

1 March 2018 4:23 pm

Work conducted by highly respected NASA scientist Roy Spencer estimates a maximum increase of 1.54°C in global temperatures from greenhouse gases, less than half that…

The real problem with Michaelia’s Cash outburst

1 March 2018 11:07 am

Oops. Michaelia Cash committed the cardinal sin. She dropped the façade fem-folk have worked hard to concoct, that women are…

Emma Alberici scores top Marx

1 March 2018 7:47 am

If you’ve been holidaying in Greece and missed the recent fiasco surrounding Emma Alberici, the chief economics correspondent at the…

The Guardian’s begging bowl blitz

28 February 2018 7:02 pm

Ever since The Guardian set up shop locally Australians have been treated to the excitement of a media outlet that…

Silent – or stealth – invasion

28 February 2018 4:53 pm

The first jolt for readers of Clive Hamilton’s polemic new book ‘Silent Invasion – China’s Influence in Australia’ is the…

Economics in one lesson

28 February 2018 1:12 pm

Just over 70 years ago, economist Henry Hazlitt wrote an economics textbook, Economics in One Lesson, which is still regarded…

The great immigration deceit

28 February 2018 7:59 am

Shortly after Angela Merkel’s nation-shaping decision to allow over a million migrants to enter Germany in 2015, her ministerial team…

Academic doesn’t hate Israel enough shock horror fury

27 February 2018 6:01 pm

More tragi-comedy from the letters section of that perpetual yearbook of the Class of 1968 (Head Boy – Tariq Ali), The London…

Threats of Aboriginal terrorism will do irreparable harm

27 February 2018 1:14 pm

Most Australians are pretty generous. They want to do the right thing by this country’s first inhabitants, especially when it…

Recycling is rubbish

27 February 2018 7:28 am

Recycling is rubbish. Not in the sense that the stuff we recycle is rubbish – which it is, of course…

Because only the right do nasty, wicked things, hey?

26 February 2018 6:09 pm

The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher is worried about the power of twenty-first century lynch mobs: Even if you think the NRA deserves what…

How government destroyed cheap electricity in Australia

26 February 2018 2:56 pm

You know something is wrong when a country with over 33 per cent of the world’s Uranium and abundant reserves…

The radical politics of Black Panther

26 February 2018 8:20 am

Black Panther opened in Australian cinemas recently and it certainly does not disappoint. It’s the eighteenth movie of the Marvel…

Mr Trumble comes back from Washington

25 February 2018 4:57 pm

Monday morning the VIP aircraft carrying the returning PM’s entourage touched down on home soil and Australians began to wonder,…

Billy Graham: a titan of faith and freedom

25 February 2018 1:20 pm

Reflecting on his wartime leadership, Winston Churchill remarked that with the nation having the lion’s heart, he “had the luck…

Their ABC: at it again

24 February 2018 8:43 am

And here we were in the reality-based community thinking it would be hard for even the ABC to trump last…

In defence of Tasmania

23 February 2018 8:03 pm

It feels a bit odd that someone like me, a native-born Canadian who has lived in Queensland for the last…

Barnaby’s concrete-assisted trolley ride crashes to an end

23 February 2018 3:25 pm

“Perhaps the biggest scandal in Australia political history? Made only by the fact it was managed like a shopping trolley…

Does anyone in politics do any work?

23 February 2018 2:21 pm

Sigh. Another day, more sex scandals in politics to finish off an eye-rollingly unproductive week. What exactly is the brief…

Why Australian Conservatives will not split the centre-right

23 February 2018 9:32 am

Go or stay? That is the question for disenchanted Liberals pondered by The Spectator earlier this month. Nationals’ supporters may…

Riding the dragon with Bob Carr

22 February 2018 4:49 pm

The ‘little dragons’ of southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Thailand, Laos and Indonesia share the same problem Australia has with…