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Being brusque does not justify George Pell’s trial by media
On Wednesday night, the whole of the ABC’s 7.30 programme was given over to an expose of historic allegations against…
Malcolm Turnbull: supreme narcissist
Over lunch with friends on June 30, we all guessed the election outcome. I thought the Coalition would lose 11…
Troughing and other pig-headed behaviour
So soon after scraping back in, Malcolm Turnbull is prepared to risk everything on the one issue, which makes many…
The media and the Religion of Peace™
I’m quite sure I wasn’t the only one who, upon hearing last week that Merrylands Police Station in Sydney’s west…
Daniel Andrews’ letter of intolerance
The moral indignation of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews public letter to the Prime Minister on marriage equality again shows the…
Discover your inner writer – and win five grand
Calling all entries for The 2016 Thawley Prize
Three letters to my daughters
July 8 2016 To my daughters (and their friends) I’ve been thinking and watching and observing my daughters and their…
Marriage equality: Daniel Andrews has big ears, but doesn’t listen
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has ears sticking out from his bonce like wide-open car doors. But for a bloke whose…
Death by by-election
The Liberal National Party has sent the lawyers up to Townsville as the recount continues for the seat of Herbert.…
Fairfax in a nutshell. Or nuthouse…
Or both, perhaps. Whichever way it explains the sales figures. Melbourne’s quality Sunday offers the remaining readers some sabbath food…
Kruger is right – Muslim immigration should be carefully considered
Australia is a free, tolerant and open democracy where we respect all points of view even if we don’t agree…
Russian winter is coming: the new war on faith
News of the Russian Olympic drug scandal has reached the ears of the media and is being rightly exposed, but…
I don’t believe in ‘no religion’
In the upcoming 2016 Australian Census, Australians will be given the option of ticking a box labelled ‘no religion’ when…
Facts have a left wing bias, do they?
I spluttered on my tea recently when reading the claim that facts have a left-wing bias. I suppose the proponents…
Hardly a ministry of all the talents
Malcolm Turnbull’s latest ministry – his third in less than a year – was announced on Monday. True to his…
Can plebiscites placate a piqued party?
It’s not just Julie Bishop talking about plebiscite preselections. Government sources say the issue got a very good workout in…
Country wisdom and the Liberals’ tin ear
In the hands of Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott alone rests the chances for stability of the new Parliament and…
Friendless free trade
In just one day this week The Australian Financial Review published two news stories; Nationals could get two extra spots…
The PM and the common touch
It truly pains me to say this, but Niki Savva was quite right (Ah! Where are those pills?) Niki Savva…
The science of comfort food
A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one…
Never a more exciting time to be an Australian conservative
Centre-right social progressives might not like social conservatism. But there has never been a more exciting time to be an…
Cory’s conservative crusade is misguided
Since the Coalition’s woeful election campaign, and Malcolm Turnbull’s less than brilliant result capped by his election night diatribe, Liberal…
Dallas, denial and the pathology of evil
Overnight, Australian time, President Obama has paid an official visit to Dallas in the wake of the five fatal shootings…
Liberals must take back their party – and how to do it
Malcolm Turnbull’s knifing of Tony Abbott is proven to be a disaster, not only for the Liberal Party but also…
Theresa May and the wake of Project Sneer
Project Fear became in the end, as Daniel Hannan described it, ‘Project Sneer’. The massed legions of banks, multinationals, the…
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