Bertrand Russell said, “Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will…

According to research commissioned by The Australia Institute if we ban all new coalmines, allowing coal production to fall from…

Writing the first draft of history, as journalists and columnists are conceited enough to imagine that we do, is a…

About the same time as I was finalising the leading article for last week’s Spectator Australia, a boffin at the Age was doing a…

Imagine for a moment that you’re the managing director of a mining company. You have a project that has met…

Constructing a viable conservative governing coalition with a coherent plan of action for the problems of today is fundamentally complicated…

So here we are, marking the Ides of Malcolm.  One year ago today Malcolm Turnbull reached for his dagger and…

According to WA Labor’s Plan for Jobs, ‘a McGowan Labor Government will free business from the burden of poor regulations’.…

A plebiscite? Yawn. Here’s a far more exciting dispatch from the frontlines of the War on Marriage. Polygamists are on…

Forget about Hillary Clinton’s health. What about Derryn Hinch’s? “Reportedly, I am in the record books as being the oldest…

Let me take a moment to clarify the difference between a hack and a politician. I get the sense that…

In the latest example of gross stereotyping and intolerance opposition leader Bill Shorten’s comments that the marriage plebiscite could cause…

There appears to be a lot of mental illness about. It must have something to do with all those Coalition…

You’ve got to feel for poor old Sam Dastaryi, dragged through the stocks last week for a spot of unusual…

You already have my sincere apologies; I recognise that there is no commentary so tiresome these days as that on…

Michelle Grattan, The Conversation, Friday: A year next Wednesday since the coup that installed Malcolm Turnbull, many Liberals are disappointed…

The death throes of the Fairfax mastheads make for gruesome viewing, yet are strangely captivating. One never knows what will…

The judicial enforcement of section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, Australia’s most notorious “hate speech” censorship law, was…

Two months ago I sat in a packed room where Tim Wilson and theologian Michael Bird addressed the topic, ‘Freedom…

Greens leader Richard Di Natale was making his usual pious noises on ABC Radio National Breakfast on Tuesday morning. “We…

Whatever you think of Sam Dastyari — he of halal snack pack and Senate committee inquiry fame — the issue…

The Productivity Commission’s draft report into the evidence base for education confirms there has been little improvement in student outcomes…

Since Tony Abbott promised a plebiscite on same sex marriage the role of plebiscites in Australian democracy has been hotly…

Rod Dreher, the American traditionalist journo, has just published an important blog post that Aussie conservatives would do well to…

We live in an age of identity politics, and even in the identity-politics-rejecting right, it is still necessary to identify…