Leading article Australia
To Boris, from down under
Dear Boris, How ironic that at the very moment you succeed in unshackling your great country from the tyranny and…
Bye bye Holden, meat pies…
If you think the shutting down of Holden, the end of that much-loved brand, the loss of automotive jobs and…
Will Morrison fight?
To ‘culturally appropriate’ General George S. Patton: No bastard ever won a war by refusing to fight the battle. Slowly,…
Climate warriors
It’s been an endless summer but not in the style of the 1966 classic film of sun and surf. Our…
Charles threatens the Crown
Australia’s constitutional monarchy, much like Canada’s, is one of the great success stories to have grown out of the British…
Political hazard reduction
After several weeks of being caught on the hop by the severity of the bushfires, it appears Scott Morrison has…
Gone with the Windsors
These are tumultuous times for the Royal Family. No one was surprised when Meghan Markle, a former TV actress from…
Death of a terrorist
The death of Iran’s terrorist- in-chief, Qassem Soleimani, brought a swift end to a dangerous adversary but there is no…
A summer to savour
What an extraordinary year. And what a wonderful way for conservative-leaning Australians to head into their summer holidays. Over the…
No time for complacency, ScoMo
The Australian Election Study has analysed every election result since 1987. In seeking to explain why people voted as they…
Our farmers have few friends
Yet again, David Flint has shown that despite being an inner-city dwelling, softly-spoken, smartly-groomed, elegantly-dressed emeritus professor of law and…
Wokepac
The Bank of New South Wales, now Westpac, got its start way back in 1817. For two centuries, its name…
Political insanity
As the bushfires rage, and a long, hot, dry and fiery summer seems inevitable, it’s well past time for Australia…
Rock star
Any fears that the Tony Abbott Testimonial Dinner on Sydney’s north shore last week would be a rather maudlin or…
Spies like Abbott
It is hard to know which proposition is more absurd. Is it the notion that former prime minister Tony Abbott…
Scott superglues his colours
And so the Great Betrayal of the Australian people continues. Not content with sneakily ratifying the Paris Agreement on Climate…
Loving the luvvies too much
When it comes to Coalition governments, Michael Corleone of The Godfather doesn’t normally come to mind. Yet they seem to…
Facing extinction
It’s not only the crazies from Extinction Rebellion who have deliberately buried their heads in the sand lately. So, too,…
Lead on, Libs
Seventy-five years ago this week, a Canberra meeting convened by Robert Menzies decided to establish a new political party, the…
Cold war kowtowing
Beijing’s birthday bash this week provides an unwelcome flashback to the dark days of the Cold War. The depressing spectacle…
Labor’s weapon of mass confusion
By any rational measure, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s state visit to the United States should be judged a success. The…
Conversation stopper
A s heavy snow fell in southeastern Australia this week, for the third time this year, preparations were still underway…
Are you being served?
As Labor politicians dragged their heels back to parliament this week, there are signs of progress through the five stages…
White women on the hook
Martin Niemöller’s famous post-World War II quotation is as poetic as it is heart-breaking, as insightful as it is terrifying.…
ScoMo settles in
It’s Sunday, so it must be Biarritz! Prime Minister Scott Morrison could be forgiven for losing his bearings over the…
