Margaret Cameron-Ash’s Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook’s Endeavour Voyage makes new and original revelations about the British discovery of eastern Australia. Captain James Cook commanded the Endeavour voyage of 1768–1771 in the midst of furious rivalry between Britain and France for imperial supremacy in the South Pacific. Obeying secret orders, Cook hid his best […]

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Some random thoughts on Her Majesty’s funeral. Firstly, it is ironic, is it not, that republican “Tory fighter” Anthony Albanese should have represented Australia on this historic occasion, an event 70 years on the making?  And that he will also represent us at the coronation of King Charles III next year.   The best that Albo’s […]

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Australian voters are not being told the truth about the proposal for constitutional recognition of indigenous people. The goal of Aboriginal political activists today is to gain ‘sovereignty’ and create a black state, equivalent to the existing states. Its territory, com­prising all land defined as native title, will soon amount to more than 60 per […]

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After competing at Brigham Young University in Utah, visiting volleyball player Rachel Richardson (above) told a fraught tale of being racially vilified by the home team’s supporters. Predictably, this prompted a wave of mainstream media denunciations of BYU’s “endemic racism”, plus the usual paint-by-numbers opinion pieces excoriating white supremacy and all the rest. But as […]

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In today’s Herald Sun, Rita Panahi takes the AFL to task for its shameful decision to exempt the women’s competition from observing a minute’s pre-game silence in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth. Her column is paywalled, but this observation shouldn’t be missed: The pitiful decision by the AFL to ditch a tribute to the […]

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One of the nice things about Australian Rules Football has always been that the us-versus-them rough stuff stays mostly on the players’ side of the fence. Unlike soccer, there has never been the need to keep rival teams’ supporters apart. Indeed, for many of us, it’s a chance to catch up with old friends whose […]

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Americans had their fill of England and kings by 1776 and, after a bit of fuss and gun smoke, declared a republic and were done with monarchy once and for all. As Philip Terzian notes while reflecting on the passing of Queen Elizabeth, that has not been an unqualified success: Whenever the queen, or some […]

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From Hobart, David Daintree writes: For most people throughout the whole world the Queen’s death comes as a profound shock.  Not unexpected, of course, after so long a reign, but cataclysmic in its emotional and social impact.  Few people in her realms have lived their lives under the reign of any other sovereign.  I am […]

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Irish teacher Enoch Burke (above, being led into court) waits behind bars in Mountjoy Prison. His “crime”? Refusing to address a gender-conflicted pupil as “they”. The Irish Times reports: Enoch Burke was committed to prison earlier this week until he agrees to obey a court order not to attend at or attempt to teach any […]

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