So. About this Australia Day-hijab-billboard thing. A billboard promoting Australia Day celebrations that featured two girls in hijabs has been…

The Age has let us know what it thinks of people who live outside Melbourne (read inner-city Melbourne, as Age-types…

Although the Human Rights Commission spends a lot of its time digging up imaginary wrongs and encouraging people to get outraged and…

So we have a new ministry. Or an amended ministry, anyway. But there’s still an elephant in the room. Or…

Without question, the most internationally famous, influential and impactful Australian in 2016 is Julian Assange.  Through Wikileaks, Assange had a…

Please find below three examples of wisdom from the groves of academe, courtesy of The Conversation. Read the three “You…

As we’re coming up to the Chinese New Year of the Rooster I’ve named my three new hens after former…

Last Thursday Dr Anne Aly, the Member for Cowan, shared a video of herself shredding the Institute of Public Affairs’ submission…

Surely you’ve all seen Tony Abbott’s punchy op-ed in The Australian, and the wee tiff it’s sparked within the Liberal government. In case not, here’s…

The Middle-Class Rip Off is an episode of the great British satire Yes Minister, where Humphrey Appleby excoriates his minister Jim Hacker, for suggesting that…

Change is the only constant. Ultimately, that is the only truth there is, and anything else you hear is more…

Australia has historically had poor rates of labour force participation for people with a disability, ranking well into the bottom…

If ever there was an act of national moral cowardice it has been the RSL’s nil response to plans to…

The idiot children at the media company that bears his family name still haven’t got the story up online, but…

They say that if you want friends in politics you should get a dog, but if pollies want to find…

I first encountered The Economist magazine as an undergraduate at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s. Richard Lipsey…

In 1996 I published Globalising Australian Capitalism. The book generally gave a favourable account of the then bipartisan policy response…

Notwithstanding investigations under way into stood-aside Health minister Sussan Ley’s touching fondness for the Gold Coast, it now appears she…

Victorian Parliamentary Secretary for Treasury and Finance, Daniel Mulino, has hit back at suggestions that assisted suicide and euthanasia can…

What is there to say about Meryl Streep’s speech at the Golden Globes that hasn’t been said already? Probably nothing,…

Back from hols and what do I find? Much to my surprise, there’s still a print edition of The Age.…

Once Australia’s premier veterans’ advocacy organisation, the Returned and Services League is in rapid if not terminal decline. Its leadership…

We who have fought on the side of the angels in the global warming battle may soon have our rest.…

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has blundered today by referring his embattled Health Minister Sussan Ley’s travel claims off to the…

Donald Trump wants closer and friendly ties with Russia and has long declared he will push for a realignment towards…