Earlier this month, parents at Forestville Public School in the Northern beaches were invited to watch their children perform in a play entitled ‘Australia –You’re Standing in It’. Much...
Recently I attended the Centre for Policy Studies’ Margaret Thatcher Conference on Security 2017 at the august Guildhall in the heart of the City of London. The theme of the day was…
Many think the Eureka Stockade was a battle for workers’ rights. However, this famous rebellion on the Victorian goldfields was really about our right to vote and a revolt against…
As part of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, the Institute of Public Affairs has produced a series of short films, which explain the important role that British Institutions...
The untold story of how a copy of the 1297 Magna Carta made its way from England to Canberra.
Just six months after the arrival of the First Fleet in Botany Bay in 1788, one event in particular demonstrates just how important the concept of the rule of law…
As part of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, the Institute of Public Affairs has produced a series of short films which explain the important role that British Institutions...
The Magna Carta is the founding document of individual liberty, the rule of law, and parliamentary democracy. It is the very document which planted the seeds of political freedom for…
This month, a number of university departments across Australia will be filled with the sound of popping corks and clinking glasses, as 91 jubilant Future Fellows and their colleagues...
Kevin Donnelly in The Australian on Tuesday argued that it’s now clear that the education sector’s ‘politically correct embrace of diversity and difference – the new code for multiculturalism –...
This week, Warren Mundine proposed that Australia Day should be moved from January 26 to January 1, because the 26th marks the arrival of the first white settlers at Sydney…
In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves for what should be their first, exciting foray into higher…
