For three months, we have given up our liberties and our livelihoods to comply with the directives of our leaders - all for the common good.

In a well-written advocacy in The Saturday Paper supporting the Black Lives Matter protests on Saturday 6th June 2020, Amy McQuire wrote...

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...

I think we should give credit to GetUp! for having the courage to withdraw its support from the petition seeking the deregistration of Dr Pansy Lai for her views on same sex marriage. The issue at stake here is tolerance in a pluralist society. I am confident that our society will be able tolerate loving relationships between homosexuals being called marriage. At the same time, we must respect the rights of those who hold a traditional view of marriage. It would be intoler

The party of Menzies died last week. It had been a party built on the bourgeois values of responsibility, love, hope, charity, prudence, justice, fortitude, thrift, diligence, industriousness, reliability, trustworthiness, courage, civility, generosity, hospitality, duty and honour. It no longer holds these beliefs. All organisations cohere around an identity. They identify their beliefs, their values and their aspirations. These are the things that attract adherents and gui

Congratulations to the ABC on their International Women’s Day initiative. I particularly enjoyed the interviews with Grace Collier, Janet Albrechtsen, Kerryn Pholi and Jennifer Oriel.