Imagine you are the Vice Chancellor of an Australian University, an extremely demanding job. You are approached by the Australian Human...

On a recent visit to Dubrovnik, Jill and I chanced upon a fish restaurant in the Old Port area – Riblji Restoran Proto. It was a...

There are views that used to be widely held, or even law, that today would be considered inappropriate. As John Stuart Mill remarked -...

I challenge the mainstream narrative on human-induced global warming, questioning the role of CO2 emissions in climate change.

The objective to provide reliable, low cost, low emission energy is fraught. We must choose our priorities. All three cannot be optimised...

We hear, ad nauseam, of the need to prevent Muslim youth in Western societies from being radicalised. Too little effort is made to...

President Trump has announced that the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. Relax. Do not slit your wrists. There is...

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

An open letter to Dr Michael Spence, Vice Chancellor, Sydney University. Yesterday’s report that students at your University have been...

Dear Gillian I am sorry it has taken me a few days to respond to your request. Last week was a bit busy, what with the book launch and my...

Congratulations to the ABC on their International Women’s Day initiative. I particularly enjoyed the interviews with Grace Collier, Janet...

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