Flat White
What do we do about selective schools?
Six years ago, I graduated from Normanhurst Boys High School, a selective school in New South Wales. I was awarded…
Time for a freedom fight back in our universities
‘Who has been too scared to express their opinion in a tutorial?’ I asked a room packed with students last…
Corey Bernardi: songs in the key of strife
Musicians get quite touchy about their music. It is their baby after all, and who wants their baby touched by a…
It’s marvellous the difference Milo makes
People who wondered what the fuss was about when Milo Yiannopoulos visited here should read Dangerous, in which he shreds…
Stop playing gender politics with people’s lives
Aziz Ansari went on a date. Now, his reputation is ruined. That’s how rapidly the hateful #MeToo flames can take…
The only solution to bullying
Einstein said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The…
The Greens fail at 2018
Inhale and all chant together – the Greens have failed at 2018. Watch through half closed eyes and you’ll observe…
Has identity politics shattered Martin Luther King’s dream?
Martin Luther King Jr’s character and life offer a stark illustration that only a few saints and monsters walk the…
The great Indigenous funding fallacy
Aboriginal people in the ACT are receiving a similar level of government funding to those in Western Australia, despite having…
“Israel… has nothing to do with Jews”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — now in the thirteenth year of his four-year term — has delivered a “wide-ranging”…
Greens patronising over Australia Day
In the last few minutes (history time) some white dudes, notably the Greens, have taken it upon themselves to speak…
The Greatest Showman: celebration of capitalism, or moral failure?
When I heard that The Greatest Showman had received negative reviews in the media, I knew I had to see…
Why not tax obesity instead of sugar?
Once upon a time, New Year’s resolutions were the purview of the individual. You made an unwritten pact with yourself…
One year of Trump; one year of winning
Contrary to the latest fashionable dogma, character is not everything in politics. It has its place, of course. But character…
Call the Kiwis!
Some decades ago in Canberra, your column writer toiled in what was then termed the Ministerial Correspondence Unit, a team…
Crony unionism, coming soon to a hole in the ground near you
I had a shock recently when I read an article in the New York Times that wasn’t critical of Donald…
Do I look racist in this hat?
Some feminists are ditching the pink “pussy hats” as the symbol of the “resistance”, but not because they’re silly: The reason:…
The house of review needs review
Since federation in 1901, Australians have always known bicameral governance. With the nation’s constitution largely based on the American founding…
Vote for (the other) Chelsea!
Chelsea wants to run. No, the other Chelsea: Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in…
There are snowflakes – and then there are snowflake’s snowflakes
When you’re about the begin the final year of study and totting up a daunting debt in fees it’s not…
Big is not beautiful or why fat is a feminine issue
Not so long ago American feminist, Naomi Wolf, did an international lap of honour to celebrate 25 years since the…
Revenue and responsibility
The Queensland government submission to the Productivity Commission review of GST distribution suggests the Commonwealth government should share its income…
Puffed-up public health poohbahs pan our happy heroes
So the public health poohbahs are off and running in 2018. The prurient puritans, the humourless harridans, the admonishing androids…
John Gorton: a rugged Australian idealist
Following the death of Sir John Gorton on 19 May 2002, Christopher Zinn wrote in the Guardian that “Gorton left…
Goodbye boozy Tuesday?
If we had been asked to name the most cuckoo council in Australia in 2017, Melbourne would have stood a…
