Terror attacks? Sshhh, never mention Islam! Riots in Virginia? Skip the broader picture to focus on an unrepresentative handful of neo-Nazis. It's the national broadcaster's way: all the news that's fit to omit, as not told by reporters who know what not to mention.

The ABC is tickled pink about the enormous splash its Canberra editor made on social media with a fact-free, opinion-heavy diatribe against Donald Trump and his administration. It seems the national broadcaster's yardstick for excellence is the number of visitors it gets from Twitter's sewer

What have they done to you, long-abused city of my youth? The pathetic, provincial insecurity of old is still there, just that these days it is expressed vertically by thickets of high-rise eyesores obscuring and overshadowing the architectural remnants of the gracious city that was

Brisbane's Anglican Church Grammar School, nominally dedicated to the principle of truth, is about to open a new library from which the name of a revered headmaster has been stripped for no better reasons than the cowardice of the politically correct, most notably that of Queensland Governor Paul de Jersey

Master showman Elon Musk won't solve South Australia’s power crisis and knows he can’t. His intervention is strictly and transparently a ploy to promote the subsidy-soaking Tesla brand and gull a few more suckers. No wonder Premier Weatherill and PM Turnbull were so receptive

When the Big Top came to town in the days of my youth it was all razzle-dazzle, bright lights and glitter. But I also recall my disappointment at noticing it was all a bit grubby, the paint chipped and gold braid tarnished -- not unlike the cavalcade of clowns and spruikers parading on Capital Hill

Nothing excuses child sexual abuse, but the question remains: has the Royal Commission's approach to "investigating" complaints lured main-chancers looking for an easy score? In one specific instance with which I am intimately acquainted, that was most certainly the case

In the thirty-five years since Alex Dix put his intellectual pipe-cleaner through the ABC, the national broadcaster's intellectual, ethical and journalistic debasements have only grown worse. Alas, we cannot expect reform from a timid government and its Q&A-loving leader

Charlie Hebdo continues quite deliberately to appall, the very crime that brought slaughter to its editorial floor. Surviving staffers are lucky quake-shaken Italians are a more sanguine lot, just as we all are blessed that the light of its brilliant cruelty yet burns