Yesterday’s Victorian budget was on-form for the Andrews’ government: it mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and now it is mishandling the economic recovery from the deepest recession in 100 years. And the...
When a black man hits a black woman it’s a white man’s fault, according to Diversity Council Australia. The Council, quoting Indigenous activist Kelly Treloar, yesterday...
Having morphed its deadly 2020 Covid response ‘strategy’ into a popularity triumph with voters the Andrews Victorian government has delivered generational debt in its state budget...
There’s an old gag that says the sixties didn’t come to Australia until the election of Gough Whitlam in December 1972. The inference, of course, is...
Multinational green corporations such as World Wildlife Fund are taking millions of dollars from well-meaning and naive people concerned about the welfare of a very cute, but irruptive species that is...
In case you managed to miss Ita Buttrose’s stirring speech in defence of her well-remunerated job, sorry, the ABC, here’s one short grab from the Australian that...
One year ago, on November 24, 2019, the great man of letters, comedian, and raconteur, Clive James, died. I won’t even pretend to be impartial. Ever since I was fourteen, every sentence I’ve ever written has...
Imagine a funeral where mourners stand grieving around an empty coffin. Those gathered for the service are inconsolable. That there is no corpse is entirely beside...
In his recent appearance on Insiders, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull vehemently declared that: The Guardian is an avowedly, small-l liberal, left of centre publication. Small-l liberal....
Central to the Special Air Service badge is a dagger, surmounted by wings. It was inspired by SAS founder Colonel David Stirling, who asked a Cairo...