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It’s the end of the world as we know it
The most unlikely shaking of hands threatens to invert the world as we know it, but that may not be…
Turnbull Liberals can’t even spell the party name
The famous Menzies quote from Afternoon Light so beloved of the Liberal left begins “We took the name Liberal because…”…
Don’t forget the hosts
There was one not-terribly-well-acknowledged behind-the-scenes heroic figure during the Kim-Trump Singapore Summit. That was Singapore’s leader, the distinguished former Brigadier,…
Donald Trump and the fury of the impotent
The public moral disintegration and demeaning of an entire cohort of people reached its zenith with the globally televised meltdown…
Another swamp that needs to be drained
Did you know that the Inspector General, the United States Justice Department’s watchdog for the FBI, released his report yesterday…
Towards a national register of engineers who are registered
Growth is good. Growth is essential. When company executives say that, however, they are talking about growth of productivity, or…
Dorothy Hewett: even libertines need limits
Dorothy Hewett is the perfect illustration of what happens when feminism turns feral. The Sydney Morning Herald has said that…
Launching ‘Howard: The Art of Persuasion’
Speech by the Editor, David Furse-Roberts. Tonight’s occasion and this book is all about honouring a great Australian and a…
Will the Cormack-Liberal jaw-jaw lead to more war-war?
At the moment I’m re-reading AJP Taylor’s classic The Origins of the Second World War. In his uniquely lucid and…
World Cup winning aid scamming
In many circumstances, poor people in the developing world would actually be better off if their dictators gave their foreign…
Stuff happens
Everything is inevitable. Stuff happens. This is how international relations work. The US-North Korea summit was always going to happen…
Gender point scoring – what’s the point?
What is the point of all this gender point scoring? Male models wore prosthetic baby bumps at a London Fashion…
Why I support Dark Mofo’s inverted crosses
The proper way to understand the giant inverted crosses as part of Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival is not an expression…
Since when was Sydney in the Adelaide Hills?
Georgina Downer is not everyone’s cup of tea. Even some usually conservative types aren’t sure if the folk of the…
Trump haters, get over it
Everything about Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un’s meeting was surreal but lefties acutely bitter reaction is illogical. Yes, we should…
The Kim ‘n’ Donald Show
As the Good Book says, by their fruits ye shall know them. Summits mean nothing, their consequences everything. We should…
Has Dark Mofo lost its mojo?
Dark Mofo is one of those pretentious displays of artistic expression that make most people roll their eyes and sigh.…
This is going to end well…
Who guards the guardians? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes and all that. The Daily Caller has the answer: Four of the world’s biggest…
The Singapore spectacular
With the President-for-two-terms of the United States, Donald J Trump and the President-for-life, Kim Jong Un actually in Singapore for…
Nukes 101 with Kim Jong-un
Kim Jong-un’s nuclear bluff looks like working. He and President Trump are on Singapore soil as I write, preparing to…
Why we should celebrate Australia’s refugee policy
As someone who grew up in a church community that welcomed refugees to our country from places as far afield…
Abbott was right to fight the left
Australia’s former prime minister, Tony Abbott is blamed for nearly everything these days. Higher rates of suicide amongst LGBTIQ youth,…
Maybe it’s not academic freedom, but the wrong name
The debate grinds on. Last week Australian National University Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt, an astrophysicist who probably never imagined things could…
Who really won the sexual revolution?
Chivalry is a virtue, but only when exercised responsibly. Unfortunately, men have so gone overboard in their chivalry that many…
Our universities and more…
I suspect a fair few readers are pretty incredulous about the whole Peter Ridd saga at James Cook University. Ridd…
