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Multiculturalism as a weapon
For most average people in the street, including most of the ordinary proponents of it, multiculturalism simply means more of…
Football violence is a crime
It’s time to stop pretending in Australia in the twenty-first century that an assault on the football field is anything…
If only Trump were Australian
Amongst the recent brouhaha about US President Trump’s late-night tweeting habits, a lot of people missed a major speech he…
Sydney (pseudo) Science Festival 2017
The Sydney Science Festival (August 8-20, if you want to put it in your diary) has booked an Opera House…
Ugly socialist genes
Trigger warning: This article contains Swiftian satire. The current animus from the left, culminating in the attempted murder of a…
When electricity becomes a luxury
“Where do you go?” They are all older women, retirees from the federal and Territory public services, the ASO5 and…
Ban Lee Rhiannon!
A woman who changed her surname so she could be named after a legendary Welsh witch wants to ban the Lord’s…
Not losing our religion
Findings from the 2016 Census that 30 per cent of Australians report having no religious affiliation have led to renewed…
Cory Bernardi has his work cut out for him
The ancient Greeks often used the art form of storytelling, using fables or parables to get a point across. One…
Assisted dying: theory and practice
Last week three people died together in what is being called a ‘triple suicide pact’ in a resort island at…
The answer isn’t Liberal
Let’s pretend for just a moment that Tony Abbott is the right-wing hardliner everyone says he is. Let’s pretend he’s not as…
Christopher, admission to the winner’s circle has a price
There is no family Christmas, no school reunion more dysfunctional than the Liberal Party’s annual Federal Council. Every June, MPs, their staffers…
Gillard: “Six men a day taking their own lives.” Now ask yourself why…
The Guardian Australia has published an extract from Julia Gillard’s John Curtin prime ministerial library’s anniversary lecture. Stay with me… She…
Libertarianism is the new heavy metal
If you are one of those people who raised an eyebrow about my election to the Western Australian Legislative Council,…
Bernardi fails national economic test
Senator Cory Bernardi, as the leader of Australian Conservatives, has failed his first critical national economic test. A fortnight ago, Bernardi issued his weekly ‘common sense’…
A lesson for Down Under on right to die laws
Dr Boudewijn Chabot is a retired Dutch psychiatrist and psychotherapist. In 1993 he was charged with having assisted in the…
Abbott’s right about being more right
I wrote recently that the sensible centre in Australian politics is dead. Labor is off with the populist pixies and…
Public health dogmatists putting millions at risk
The current House of Representatives inquiry into the legalisation of personal vaporisers should be welcomed and not criticised, as tedious,…
The end of the Liberal Party?
This morning in Brisbane, Tony Abbott launched his campaign for the return to the prime ministership and to win the…
Ignore the preschool panic
You might forgive parents reading the Sydney Morning Herald this week for thinking they’d better abandon their skinny latte and…
The black hands of Liberalism
Somewhere near Liberal Party HQ the comrades of the Black Hand gathered to discuss their next move in the overthrow…
The Liberal left master class
The important thing to remember about Christopher Pyne is that he was once a highly factional Young Liberal. The rot…
Labor’s education dreams: all Gonski
Sometime around 2.00 am Friday morning sleep-bleary parliamentarians gave a Gonski and allowed the government’s Gonski 2.0 education bill to…
The curse of the Black Hand
How appropriate Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne was speaking to a Liberal left faction group called the Black Hand when…
The F-35: where to from here?
Our Government has told us that the RAAF’s F-35 fleet of 72 aircraft will cost us $16,000 million. Setting aside…
