The former Greens leader has seen the light and come out against a new Tasmanian wind far. If he can see the folly of the immensely expensive and massively unreliable symbols of the renewables rort, surely policymakers can appreciate it too? Alas, that isn't anywhere near happening

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The national broadcaster operates a very large Washington bureau and you have to wonder why, given that so much of its 'reporting' is the distilled essence of anti-Trump coverage from newspapers and other media which, were he to cure, cancer, would accuse him of putting nurses out of work. Correspondent Connor Duffy's coverage of July 4 celebrations is sadly typical

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The likes of Mark Zuckerberg have us wrapped so tightly around a virtual finger that Chris Hughes, who co-founded Facebook, is calling for the social network to be broken up. That's certainly a good idea, not least for anti-trust reasons, yet pointless in the grand scheme of things. The changes wrought have gained their own dreadful momentum

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The Green New Deal would shut down US industry and exports. Unemployment -- at six-decade lows under Trump -- would skyrocket. Open borders would likely see another ten million poor immigrants within a year. These prospects make a coven of congresswomen very happy indeed

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Is there a malaise that reflected in the turn from the colours of optimism and hope to the dreariness of a non-colour traditionally associated with depression, death … and the coming of night?

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True, it will be difficult to thoroughly cleanse sacred scriptures of admonitions to spurn what once were seen as sins and now are celebrated. What we want is a religious purity commission headed by someone with a freewheeling moral compass and no outdated attachment to freedom of speech. Oh, and they will need to be very brave as well

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There are stories of violence in the holy scriptures of all faiths. What if those stories were to be cited as examples for adherents to emulate, or at least respect? Freedom of speech is one thing and should be supported to the hilt, but legislating an unfettered freedom of religious expression is fraught with the gravest peril

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Apart from the unctuousness of GoFundMe's tone, what was the difference between its canning of Folau's appeal and the family bakery fined for refusing to cater a lesbian wedding? Of course there is a difference. A Christian conscience is not an allowable excuse in leftist eyes for a business to refuse service. Objecting to 'homophobia' is

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There is no denying the former PM was targeted by a loosely connected archipelago of haters allied in their shared desire to see him gone. Whatever his enemies' goals or the different tacks their campaigns took, a bunch of political pygmies won and the nation lost

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How might we begin to solve the problems afflicting Aborigines? The example of Italians, Greeks and other immigrants perhaps provides a template. They, too, were outsiders in an alien culture, so they formed ethnic clubs while integrating over one or two generations to fully realise the opportunities open to all -- including indigenous Australians

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