In doggedly resisting US prompts to boost defence spending by evoking a ‘neutralist’ foreign policy in his recent John Curtin oration, and topping that with a...
Back in May of this year, I attended a skin cancer clinic for the excision of a lesion suspected to be malignant. The specialist scheduled a...
From the National Press Club: This week’s address by Dr Ken Henry, former Secretary of the Treasury, was not a love letter to the government, but...
The Bayeux Tapestry depicted the September crossing of William, Duke of Normandy’s, forces to England with 7,000 men and 2,000 in 1066. In 2025, there are...
In today’s tiresome world of prefabricated media grabs and rehearsed campaign slogans uttered by cardboard cut-out ministers, it is not often a politician wanders onto the...
With Russian drone and missile attacks assaulting Ukrainian cities, and Ukrainian civilian casualties at their highest levels since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, it should...
With the current Treasurer jumping on the tax reform bandwagon, assuring the public that reform of the taxation system is the key to an efficient economy...
In some parts of the media and, indeed, of the Liberal Party, the issue of quotas for women continues to distract a wounded party in the...
The recent victory of Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City Mayor, a figure sympathetic to Islamist rhetoric, poses an ideological threat to...
On February 16, 2005, Arik Sharon, Israel’s then Prime Minister, secured the approval of the Knesset, (Israel’s Parliament), for a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza of all...