Flat White
A Sydney Grammar alumnus writes about Malcolm
From the Flat White mailbag: As you would know, my old school has produced three prime ministers: The First (Barton);…
Christmas in South Sudan
Ten days before Christmas 2013 a civil war started in the new nation of South Sudan. The events leading up…
Why the lights went out on SA Labor
This week the SA Labor Premier, Jay Weatherill, took the lead in the national energy debate, suggesting the creation of an inter-state emissions…
The Age’s morning glory
We knew its recently departed editor-in-chief Mark Forbes was a sleazebag, but even then it was still generally believed The…
When did aristocracy come back into vogue?
Listen these days to some of the world’s elite politicians, commentators and officials pontificate and you’d think you were living…
Trevor Goddard: the end of a grand innings
When stumps were drawn at the Wanderers on January 26th, 1965 the Springbok captain, Trevor Goddard, was 11 runs shy…
Green-left legerdemain doesn’t make religion relevant
It has long been obvious that the political agenda of some Catholic organisations and schools rest solidly within the Green-left…
The High Court should affirm the people, not the government, are truly sovereign
Why has there been such a long-term decline in maths and science learning in our schools, and in the qualifications…
Presenting… The 2016 Nannies
Animal rights group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was the winner of the 2016 Nanny State Awards, for…
Jessie
Jessie Margaret Noble, formerly Dingle, died in Bundaberg last week, November 29, 2016 to be exact. She was 97. Who,…
Silent night, godless night
Almost 30 years ago, fresh from Hawaii, I visited my daughter’s grade one class in Brisbane to show off my…
Freedom of association: sanity succeeds on Spring Street
On Tuesday afternoon, Victoria’s upper house of Parliament voted down the Labor Government’s Equal Opportunity Amendment Bill. The Bill was…
Voltaire, Waleed Aly and the 18d trope
It has been a dismal year for the commanders and foot soldiers in Australia’s war against so-called hate speech. In several recent ground operations, the massed forces of contemporary…
John Key’s class act
There’s a photo taken in South Africa after Nelson Mandela’s funeral. Three Anglosphere PMs, Tony Abbott, Canada’s Stephen Harper and…
Daniel Andrews digs in against freedom of association
The restricting of freedom of association and freedom of religion is back on the agenda in Victorian Parliament this week.…
What’s gone wrong in South Australia?
What’s gone wrong in South Australia? For much of the population, not very much, really. Most services are quite good, infrastructure development has…
A human rights charter: monster or liberator?
At the recent Queensland state Labor conference Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the government’s commitment to a human rights act, modelled…
Everything you always wanted to know about the Alt-Right* (*but were afraid to ask)
BOSTON, UNITED STATES — The Alt-Right hysteria sweeping the Western world is as overwrought as it is alarming. On the…
The harpies take the weekend off
There’s no business like show business, as the old song goes – and no feminism as purely exhibitionistic as the…
Envirocrats hijack Kokoda
In 2008 Australia developed a ‘Joint’ Agreement with the PNG Government in regard to the management of the Kokoda Trail…
The libertarian case against abortion
It just goes to show what a topsy-turvy world we are living in where somebody who believes that life is…
Death by blasphemy
My primary school teacher used to swear by Jove to emphasise how impressed he was when one of his pupils…
We are a low taxing country?
I’m sure you were all up late on Wednesday night eagerly awaiting the publication of the latest OECD Revenue Statistics.…
A spittoon’s worth of bigots
We are all racists now. Noel Person tells us so. The “hard bigotry” of Quadrant conservatism has merged with the “soft bigotry” of the ABC. The two have met in “the common…
Derryn Hinch and the ABCC: Shame, shame, shame!
Malcolm Turnbull and Michaelia Cash have boasted that the long-awaited passage of the Government’s ABCC bills is a ‘fundamental economic…
