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Our failing political class
Too many problems in modern Australia country have been either created by our ruling political class or made significantly worse by…
Malcolm’s malaise
No one doubts Malcolm Turnbull is intelligent. But is he smart? Some commentators attribute the government’s popularity malaise to some…
Blessed are those who don’t give a s***, for they shall inherit the Earth
On the pages of The Sydney Morning Herald (of course), an ANU climate scientist (of course), Sophie Lewis, agonises whether…
Please explain?
From The Age website this evening. It’s clearly all got too much for the poor petals. They’ve cracked under the…
Market economist confidently predicts direction of white noise process
Sydney-based market economist Nathan Hadley has confidently predicted a strong week ahead for pound sterling in the face of overwhelming…
Bannon 2024
BOSTON, UNITED STATES — The House Freedom Caucus is up in arms about President Trump’s Obamacare reform bill. While he…
Alive but not alive
CEO Greg Hywood insists the print editions of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will continue for a while…
In praise of the grande dame
Last week I attended an event in Brisbane that brought out lovers of art, local personalities, philanthropists, and many considered…
Earth has not anything to show more fair…
Over at Breitbart’s London Bureau, there’s a roughish, floppy-haired giant of a fogey named Oliver J.J. Lane. Red-pants’d and boater-hat’d,…
A glass half-full
One of my first authentic Australian ‘cultural’ experiences, years before I made it my home, was Barry Humphries’ good mate…
Dr Di Natale’s odd prescription for employment
Richard Di Natale’s inner-city industrial relations thought bubble is precisely the sort of thing you’d expect from a federal Greens…
Sorry Matilda, I don’t need no trigger warning
New Matilda has just published a lovely little piece by Michael Brull spitting on the grave of Bill Leak, entitled RIP Bill…
Campus censorship ratchets up
Free intellectual inquiry is under serious threat at universities across the Anglosphere. At the very places designed to inspire a battle of…
The great renewable energy swindle
As with all swindles, the great renewable energy swindle has ended with the sad realisation that we’ve been had. Having…
In defence of the Romanovs: the centenary of the February Revolution
A century ago today, as the Imperial Train sat impounded at a provincial station 180 miles from Petrograd, Russia’s last…
Left-wing intolerance must be called out
The Twitterati outcry over two democratically elected Members of Parliament discussing important national issues over a beer shows the absolute…
Daniel Andrews: one-term blunder?
Things have been grim for the Andrews ALP government for some time. Victorians voted in the Andrews Labor Government off…
My Bill
I met Bill Leak just the once. It was at a dinner party; my old boss was heading back overseas after a wonderful term of service…
Punk rock conservatism? Pretty vacant…
My dear darling Daisy, Thank you for your lovely letter. Please understand, when I say you’re not a conservative, it’s…
It’s quality all the way at Michelle Guthrie’s ABC
Broadcasting: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Michelle Guthrie. Her five-year contract: to explore strange new worlds, to…
Beer, the bible, boycotts and bigotry
Ok, let me clear my glass from the outset, I don’t drink beer. And no, it has nothing to do…
It was the Hanson wot won it
So the WA Liberal Government did a deal with Pauline Hanson and it cost them the election. Right? Labor can’t…
Have we outgrown Yes, Minister?
Part of the implicit deal between the ruling class and the ruled is that people are willing to overlook moderate…
The bleakest death of the year
Once in lower primary school I foolishly played keepies with my favourite marble, a large, sapphire coloured “Tom Bowler”, the…
Thank you, Colin Barnett
As the dust settles on the Western Australian election result, let’s not forget that for 8 ½ years Colin Barnett…
