No countries have a closer relationship with Australia than New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. We have shared history…

As Australia’s political year fizzles to an ignominious end, the political oddity which is One Nation continues as the gift…

The latest international maths and science results suggest that Australia is a slow learner when it comes to improving school…

The Greens have relaunched their drug policy, with party members approving Richard Di Natale’s proposed changes at their national conference in…

The ABC asks all the important questions like “Should you tell your kids the ‘truth’ about Santa?” – and answers them: “Is…

I’ve been floating the idea of hoaxing The Guardian for years now. The plan was to pose as some emotionally…

Last week the good people at Centre for Authoritarian Ideas – otherwise known as the Grattan Institute – released a…

Australia is becoming a mock democracy; a demockracy. It is observable on a daily basis as some politicians, journalists and…

Forget the tyranny of low expectations. The opposite happens at The Age. As its standards plummet, the paper soars to…

Where is Professor Triggs when you want her? How could the Turnbull government be so mean and petty and also,…

Last Friday, Fairfax ran a report by Latika Bourke on my talk to the Centre for Independent Studies, as the so-called…

Was it William Shakespeare who wrote, “Put a lawyer into uniform but it cannot a soldier make”? Perhaps not, but…

Unbelievable. Absolutely un-be-f*cking-lievable. Read the ABC’s obituary of Fidel Castro, the “romantic revolutionary”. Not one mention of human rights abuses.…

‘Stop firing’ screamed the Afghan interpreter metres away from a suspected Taliban leader as he emptied his magazine towards a…

What was that Paul Keating was saying about the ABC only yesterday? Something about the broadcaster “letting Australia down” in…

I had finished work the previous day in preparation for a fortnight of paternity leave.  My wife was on the…

Wednesday’s edition of  7:30 included a fascinating piece on the campaign of the Chinese government to make China the world…

Don’t tell the Greens, but I’ve gone to Israel. After possibly the best midnight flight to Jerusalem since Mohammed’s horse…

On November 28, East Timorese celebrate the anniversary of the day in 1975 when their country was declared an independent nation and they raised…

You’ve really got to hand it to mainstream media commentators – often wrong but never in doubt. Their spectacularly inaccurate…

As a long-time republican, I made the decision last year to join the Australian Republican Movement. Having spent the better…

Writer Benjamin Law used the final Q&A for the year to claim discussion around 18C was just our privileged class…

Cato the Elder would end every speech with, ‘Carthago delenda est’; ‘Carthage must be destroyed’. Rome had defeated Carthage in…

Monday’s long awaited passage of the Registered Organisations Bill has been touted as a much-needed win for the Turnbull Coalition…

I feel many reading this will know of families that have been interwoven from their past through to their present so first a…