I want to point out a few short blunt truths about conservative governments and appointments to important posts such as the top courts, key tribunals, the...
“I’ve never liked the idea of saying to people, ‘You must show your papers’ … to do what is just an everyday activity,” British Health Secretary...
In an interview with the American socialist Jacobin Magazine this month, Greens leader Adam Bandt spoke about a growing inequality crisis. When asked what the pandemic has revealed...
I’m all for saving forests. Unlike the climate change enthusiasts, I learnt how to do it by working as a forester. Forty years ago, after I’d...
“Lying always comes before killing”, as Solzhenitsyn observed of the Stalin regime. Under the Labor administration in Queensland, it comes before, during and after, with fresh...
Just months from a possible December federal election, the Labor Party is doing what it does so well – knifing one of its own to make...
Springtime may be brightening up the lives of Victorians, but the stage light is dimming on Premier Dan Andrews. Something has finally popped. After 30 weeks...
Tuesday marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet, politician and philosopher. Dante, or as we call him in Italian, il Sommo Poeta (the...
The Twitteratti have been in a tizz since Wednesday when a busybody got a shot of Tony Abbott, sans mask, talking to a mate at Manly...
How do you defend the indefensible? You give a politician a pen and some newspaper column centimetres. I tend not to read farce or fiction so...