Flat White
It’s time for CANZUK
No countries have a closer relationship with Australia than New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. We have shared history…
Pauline and Julian: the (bloody) odd couple
As Australia’s political year fizzles to an ignominious end, the political oddity which is One Nation continues as the gift…
The neoliberals ate my maths homework
The latest international maths and science results suggest that Australia is a slow learner when it comes to improving school…
The Greens: drugs ok, e-cigarettes evil
The Greens have relaunched their drug policy, with party members approving Richard Di Natale’s proposed changes at their national conference in…
Should you tell ABC types the truth about Santa?
The ABC asks all the important questions like “Should you tell your kids the ‘truth’ about Santa?” – and answers them: “Is…
My secret alt-right shame (as told to The Guardian)
I’ve been floating the idea of hoaxing The Guardian for years now. The plan was to pose as some emotionally…
The fat bogan tax
Last week the good people at Centre for Authoritarian Ideas – otherwise known as the Grattan Institute – released a…
Demockracy
Australia is becoming a mock democracy; a demockracy. It is observable on a daily basis as some politicians, journalists and…
The latest from The Age…
Forget the tyranny of low expectations. The opposite happens at The Age. As its standards plummet, the paper soars to…
Parliament should stay sitting until its work is done
Where is Professor Triggs when you want her? How could the Turnbull government be so mean and petty and also,…
Labor must share blame for GP co-payment fallout
Last Friday, Fairfax ran a report by Latika Bourke on my talk to the Centre for Independent Studies, as the so-called…
Military injustice
Was it William Shakespeare who wrote, “Put a lawyer into uniform but it cannot a soldier make”? Perhaps not, but…
Castro a tyrant? Not according to the ABC
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.…
Protect our troops. Abolish the Office of Military Prosecutions
‘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?
What was that Paul Keating was saying about the ABC only yesterday? Something about the broadcaster “letting Australia down” in…
Twins, caesarians and Centrelink
I had finished work the previous day in preparation for a fortnight of paternity leave. My wife was on the…
Soft power, hard outcomes
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 been to Israel
Don’t tell the Greens, but I’ve gone to Israel. After possibly the best midnight flight to Jerusalem since Mohammed’s horse…
Raising the flag (without getting arrested or killed)
On November 28, East Timorese celebrate the anniversary of the day in 1975 when their country was declared an independent nation and they raised…
The Donald, the media — and the misunderstandings
You’ve really got to hand it to mainstream media commentators – often wrong but never in doubt. Their spectacularly inaccurate…
Why I joined — and quit — the Australian Republican Movement
As a long-time republican, I made the decision last year to join the Australian Republican Movement. Having spent the better…
“Privilege”? Tell that to the Queensland University of Technology three
Writer Benjamin Law used the final Q&A for the year to claim discussion around 18C was just our privileged class…
The Human Rights Commission must be abolished
Cato the Elder would end every speech with, ‘Carthago delenda est’; ‘Carthage must be destroyed’. Rome had defeated Carthage in…
Registered Organisations Bill a win for workers
Monday’s long awaited passage of the Registered Organisations Bill has been touted as a much-needed win for the Turnbull Coalition…
When “Australian” said it all
I feel many reading this will know of families that have been interwoven from their past through to their present so first a…
