Flat White
Regulating away freedoms
One of the paradoxes in the world today is that day-to-day life in a communist country like China is much…
Kinsey and Hef
A couple of weeks ago, the human face of the modern sexual revolution, Hugh Hefner died in the Playboy mansion…
Julie Bishop backflips
To repeat the well-used words and heart-stopping sentiment of many parents of teenage children, “Julie, we’re so disappointed in you”. It was surprising to see Bishop…
Labor’s desperate sales pitch
Nothing says desperation more than calling on the Bob Hawke to do your selling and evoking the memory of a…
What’s Greek for ‘chutzpah’?
Cockiness to the point of crazy-brave has been a Hellene characteristic down the ages (the Greeks were Hellenes before they…
What’s left of Western culture? Just about everything
There is something very wrong with Western culture today. At first, it seemed only as if in gradual decline, but…
Corporate subsidies don’t keep the lights on
A wise man once told me watching business people talk about economics is like watching a dog walk on its…
The same-sex marriage revolution: same as them all
David Sergeant chilling piece “What’s changed in Britain since same-sex marriage?” describes the way in Britain the anti-marriage revolutionary agenda…
Reshuffling the ABC is futile
So many promises: each as useless as the last. What is the point of the ABCs overhaul of current affairs…
Teaching at Maechaem
For some weeks now in Thailand I’ve been teaching English to teenagers with a disability, many of them in wheelchairs…
Repeating Turnbull’s blunder
Watching the Conservatives fall apart over leadership gives me uncanny déjà vu after Australian politics. In the last eight years, Australia has…
It’s about more than marriage. Just ask a Pom…
I run Britain’s oldest conservative think tank, the Bow Group, and in 2012 I opposed the then Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposed Same-Sex…
Who’s f–king whom at the Department of Environment and Energy?
The Department of Environment and Energy – a strange marriage if ever there was one! It would seem one of…
Waiting for Winston
On the south side of the Ditch we’re living in The Present, a time that American poet Billy Collins identified…
The Greens for sale
EXCLUSIVE You’re a political party who appears to have reached – gratuitous Club of Rome reference – the limits of…
What’s happened to the university?
Many people are likely to have had a lightbulb moment that made them realise our universities are in trouble. Over…
Same-sex marriage and PVO and his army of straw men
Peter Van Onselen is a timely reminder that the ‘academic aristocracy’ is alive well in our land. He recently tried…
Ten things we should be talking about instead of same-sex marriage
It was with great lack of joy that I came back from five weeks in Europe to find out that…
A better cause than Marie Stopes
Yesterday abortion provider Marie Stopes Australia announced that it “is searching for “brave philanthropists” to bankroll a $3 million fund for women…
Beaches, blood and the balance of nature: the great white debate
Environmentalists probably don’t realise that they anthropomorphise nature. But academics like Christopher Neff should know better. He designed a survey,…
Loved to death
Last week, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 was introduced before the Legislative Council of New South Wales. In one…
Hanson’s the only hope for family court reform
It sounded like good news at first. Attorney General George Brandis announced he’s commissioned a review of the family law…
Where are the equality campaigners on liberty?
A churchgoing driver getting harassed on his way to a meeting, a young woman losing her job over her stance…
Trump, Otto Warmbier and the left’s sick loss of sanity
If anyone is looking for definitive proof that loopy loony lefties have lost it, here you are. Centre of the…
Why Turnbull cannot be English
There is a school of thought that Malcolm Turnbull can still salvage his leadership of the Liberal Party here in…
