After this country’s politicians eventually work out who is and isn’t entitled to sit in Parliament, hopefully they’ll turn their attention back to more important things –...
For all the furore it generated, the prickly phone call between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull was a blip in Australia’s alliance relations with the US. In the mid-1950s Canberra and Washington...
East Timor holds a special place in the Australian psyche. It is our newest neighbour, and we played a critical role in supporting its road to independence in 2002 through the Australian-led...
The major parties, unions and the bureaucracy have declared economic war on young people which threatens to create an invisible underclass locked out of economic participation. In March, the...
Australia spends more on criminal justice than most other developed countries, but gets worse results. In world terms, we spend a lot on prisons and police but despite this, Australians...
When Bill Shorten gave the keynote address the Australian Republican Movement annual dinner last month, Peter Fitzsimons gushed at how impressive was; blissfully unaware he had just killed any...
A debate about inequality in Australia is long overdue. But we shouldn’t be talking about it the way the left and the Labor Party want to. A discussion only about economic inequality misses...
In London’s posh South Kensington on Sunday afternoon I witnessed anti and pro-Venezuelan government protests form outside the Venezuelan embassy. On the pro-government side stood...
The Labor Party is proposing another attack on wealth-creating businesses with its planned tax hike on discretionary trusts. It remains unclear how substantial the tax hit will be. Labor is...
Britain’s chattering classes have reached a new consensus: liberal free market economics is unpopular and a failure. This is an extraordinary shift. Just 20 years ago, as the Soviet Union...
Bullying officials and academia are misusing their authority to silence private citizens on global warming. Climate change policy should be informed by a sober assessment of the data and...
A report from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research shows the incarceration of indigenous Australians in that state has increased by 25 per cent since 2013. The report attributes this...
