Niall Ferguson is arguably the best historian writing in English. Without a trace of postmodernist cant, he is a hard-nosed chronicler of raw financial, political and military power, showing scant interest in retrospective moralising.

Julia Gillard calls it an agreement; Tony Abbott a coalition. For others, the Gillard-Brown-Wilkie line-up looks like a “popular front”. Either way, Labor and the Greens have realigned power relations in Australia.

The ALP has now been forced into a novel division of labour. While a “liberated” Gillard preaches to the converted journalists, special interests and safe Labor voters, Rudd gets down and dirty in the marginals.

Having passed the phases of decline, decadence and collapse, New […]

Journalists have no interest in exploring the moral dilemmas confronting Christians in the Labor Party, even if they are thornier than those facing Coalition members.

What should we make of the near-unanimity of opinion among a cohort of scientists in such a complex and dynamic field?

The National President of the CFMEU, a union covering 13,000 coal miners, recently described the term “green jobs” as “dopey”.

A momentous event in our national affairs has all but gone unnoticed. The political party which for over a hundred years was known as the Australian Labor Party has ceased to exist.