Is the best way to handle all contentious social issues in a nation to allow them to be determined at a state or local level? That appears to be the argument Louise Clegg is making in her latest...
Some of my clever political friends have recently started to refer to me, wryly, as Australia's secret and powerful Disraeli Lobby. This is because of my insistence – okay, mild obsession – that...
There have been many interesting reactions to the Australian Liberal Party’s catastrophic loss on Saturday. But surely one of the most bizarre has been how leading progressive Liberals have...
Several years back I happened to meet author James Bartholomew, the person who can legitimately claim to have coined the phrase, “virtue signalling”. If social media had been around then, I guess...
AUSTRALIA officially celebrates Harmony Day on March 21, but I see festivities kicked off at least a month ago. Who knows? One day we may, like China, end up celebrating Harmony Day all year...
Earlier in my career, in a very different world, I lived in China. It was possible, then, to stand on Tian’anmen Square one day and on Bondi Beach the next. I often marvelled at how these two...
Rock along to any gathering of centre-right types and before too long you’ll hear someone earnestly declare how ‘the leadership of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher won the Cold War without...