On October 16, 1555, the Protestant Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were burned at the stake under the reign of Queen Mary for their commitment...
History is full of once-celebrated conventional wisdoms that ultimately failed scrutiny. Bloodletting, alchemy, and lobotomy are just a few examples. Even Newtonian physics was eventually refined...
Anthony Albanese, a Johnny-come-lately in the extreme, declared his idiotic support for a Palestinian state just moments before Trump’s negotiations with Israel, Qatar, Hamas, and who...
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson said the ‘quiet part’ out loud last week when she accused supermarkets of ‘overcharging for paper bags’. Paper bags, which usually...
Last weekend I was stopped by an evangelical missionary on Swanston Street in Melbourne. He was only 18 years old, from Utah, who had just arrived...
My daughter calls me ‘Pack Rat’ because I find it difficult to throw anything away. My parents lived through the grim depression years and I was...
History is replete with examples of strong and successful leaders who made celebratory statements following a protracted period of uncertainty and conflict. Often, these statements constitute...
When Tony Abbott’s Australia: A History – How an ancient land became a great democracy, hit shelves on October 13, courtesy of HarperCollins, it sold out...
Two years on from the Voice to Parliament referendum, one of the leading figures of the successful ‘No’ campaign, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, has made the...
The current political landscape is defined by ideological skirmishes where one side is conducting its long march while the other is being bled dry by guerrilla...