Opinion

Six months ago, Russia denied its troops were involved in the invasion of Crimea. Today, the claim is that Moscow is blameless in the destruction of Flight 17 -- yet another transparent lie and a reminder that Putin has as little regard for world opinion as for his neighbours' borders

Joe Hockey's appallingly inept budget is no longer the real problem for a government the polls suggest is on the ropes and quite likely to stay there. The bigger threat and greater folly is Abbott & Co.'s delusional refusal to recognise the scope of its mistakes

Dismantling the West's cultural heritage continues apace, with the Norse god of thunder now the latest victim of a ceaseless quest to shape the future by kidnapping the past, even on minor salients like the comics rack at your local newsagent's

It is small potatoes in the grand, cosmic scheme of things, but worth noting all the same that the Archie & Jughead comicbooks are no more. In case you haven't heard, the 75-year-old central character was shot dead in the final edition by a homophobic gun lover

Even those unswayed by classical liberal arguments on behalf of individual choice must accept that prohibition has not only failed, but failed miserably. Worse, attempts to control personal behaviour have served as a de facto price-maintenance scheme for organised crime

No other people is the denied the presumptive right to attack the enemies who attack it, but Jews are different. While terrorists operate from behind the shield and cover of densely populated civilian neighbourhoods, the world denounces the victim of Hamas' conscienceless savagery

Eight decades after Stalin inflicted a murderous famine on the Ukraine, academics still debate the extent of his inhumanity. It is a frustration likely to be shared by those hoping for definitive answers to the fate of Flight 17.

Recent history suggests that Coles' move from groceries into petrol, liquor retailing, insurance and credit cards is by no means the high-water mark of its ambitions. Australian consumers may well regret that their elected representatives facilitated such an expansion

The countries whose citizens were murdered should confront Moscow with an ultimatum and a pledge: hand over those responsible, or see Russia deemed a pariah state with all of the consequences that follow

"Politics is not about the pursuit of power as an end in itself. Those who seek power for the sake of power will always fail. Politics is about seeking power though democratic means in order to take power away from the elites, whether bureaucratic or corporate, and return power to the people."

What happens if global temperatures actually decline -- a possibility that must be considered, given the lack of solar activity and the mercury's refusal to rise as the warmists' atrociously inaccurate predictions insisted? The short answer: big trouble for Beijing and everyone else

Prevailing opinion concedes that Israel has the right to defend itself. But this pro-forma position is largely cancelled by the argument which says that if Israel is too effective in its self-defence, it will be guilty of "a disproportionate response"

Remember how the Climate Council was going to work pro bono to counter sceptics, deniers, carbonistas and all the other planet-fouling monsters in the warmists' bestiary of evildoers? It seems volunteer efforts now come with a price tag

How did Australia get itself into a situation where labour is so over-priced that it’s no longer economic to run a TV/radio repair shop, or worthwhile training young people in the basic skills of hands-on electronics?

Now that Olympian Ian Thorpe has made the momentous, world-shaking decision to discuss his sexuality on national television, simple equity demands that other tastes and manifestations of human desire be given similar airings