Human Rights Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane recently lectured his countrymen about the 'darker, even violent, side of our humanity'. A high flier in the grievance industry would say that -- but why is he being supported by the Australian/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, whose Colin Rubenstein should know better

Australia Day 2012 may well be the moment when the proposed  changes to the Australian Constitution, to grant special favours to people of Aboriginal descent, unravelled.

Putting the carbon into Christmas with a traditional carol.

The words Harry Jenkins spoke as he offered his resignation to the parliament-assembled said one thing— the pictures of him saying them, suggested something entirely different.

With just five weeks to Christmas there are conspiracy theories in the air and they most certainly have a theatrical ring to them —which more than likely gives these theories much credence.

Where were the protesters? Where were all the indignantaries? The party poopers?

Who’s upsetting the great intellectuals of Australia?

It’s not The West Wing we should be watching to get the new slant on politics and how to run a country. No! The TV series to watch is The Borgias.

By putting in writing any notion that I had discriminatory tendencies towards ethnic gherkins, and indeed therefore the people who grew them, picked them, pickled them and bottled them; could I end up before Judge Mordecai Bromberg?