by PAUL COLLITS – ANY institution that doesn’t start off its life as explicitly Right-wing will end up drifting Leftwards. These are the words of the estimable John O’Sullivan, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, writer, exemplary contributor to Quadrant magazine and President…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – WITH no clear end in view to the Middle East war, critics are partly right in claiming US President Donald Trump is releasing UFO files as a diversion from stalled peace talks. At the outset I’ll put my…
by ROGER CROOK – LAST month in Britain the marchers were chanting that they wanted their country back. In Australia one heard much the same feeling not long ago, though in our own way and in our own accent. A society under…
by BETTINA ARNDT – AUSTRALIAN men are dropping out of employment and marriage because women are no longer worth working for. The warning signs have been evident for decades. Back in 1983, American author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a powerful book — The…
by FRED PAWLE – THE two benefits of multiculturalism, we were told, were the exciting new ethnic dishes that would spice up our bland diet, and the “vibrancy” that new languages, costumes and customs would add to our equally bland monoculture. Forty…
by SEAN BURKE – FORMER Prime Minister Tony Abbott has vowed to return the once-conservative Liberal Party to the people. Mr Abbott was elected unopposed as Federal Liberal President on the weekend and will take charge of the Party organisation. Our economy…
by DAVID FLINT – IF AN election were held now, an opinion poll in The Australian Financial Review concludes that One Nation could win fifty-nine seats. Labor would clutch on to power with a margin of just one seat. If, after the…
by PAUL COLLITS – A GOOD friend, whose views are pretty close to my own, is used to being ignored in the workplace. He’s used to colleagues steering clear of political discussions – and certainly steering clear of engaging with him. One…
by MONICA O’SHEA – BIOLOGICAL men pretending to be women are at risk of workplace pregnancy discrimination, according to Australia’s $400,000 a year Human Rights Commissioner. Commissioner Anna Cody was questioned in Federal Parliament this week over whether transgenders can become pregnant…
by FRED PAWLE – WE IN the Enlightened West can no longer scoff at the destructive delusions of authoritarian societies. In some ways, we are now worse. Those living in liberal democracies have been spared the excruciating dullness and dysfunction that less…
