Our politicians and their advisors get no kudos for taking risks. They err on the side of caution. The risk of deaths from COVID-19 is...

One of the delights of the English language is that its extensive vocabulary facilitates nuance. The recent overuse of the word...

Our schools should never have been closed. The expert advice was consistent about this. Officials of the teacher unions should hang their...

When the Auditor General released a scathing report on the allocation of $100million in sports grants, we all understood that funds had...

I read Dennis Glover’s The Last Man in Europe. Then I read Orwell's 1984 again. Then I re-read The Last Man in Europe. I appreciated it...

The party of Menzies died last week. It had been a party built on the bourgeois values of responsibility, love, hope, charity, prudence,...

Last week the Liberal Party, and particularly its leader, opted out of debate. Following the inquiry into the racial discrimination act,...

Dan Andrews has issued a proclamation telling public servants that they should desist from heterogenic terms like husband and wife, or...

In July 2016, following the expose on Four Corners, Prime Minister Turnbull announced a Royal Commission into juvenile detention in the...

Last week, when Senator Sam Dastyari admitted error in accepting payment for his travel expenses from a Chinese company with links to the...