One doesn't like to be morbid, but when the press magnate breathes his last Australia's last remaining decent newspaper will likely fall victim to the bean-counters. A Guardian-style trust would guarantee its survival, and only the man who founded it can make that happen

My friend, Arthur, is far from stupid, yet he was seduced into parting with his hard-earned cash by slick and accomplished  online con artists. In his case the monetary loss was small even if the resulting inconvenience was not. let his experience be a lesson to all

Malcolm Turnbull said this when about to plunge the knife: 'Now, if we continue with Mr Abbott as Prime Minister ... he'll be succeeded by Mr Shorten [who is] utterly unfit to be Prime Minister of this country and yet so he will be if we do not make a change.'

There is nothing of the Harbourside Mansion about the Monash Forum leader, and if principle, nous and courage are recommendations, he has those too. Given the deficiencies of The Lodge's current resident and talk of recycling the leader he knifed, we could do much worse

The Fairfax press casts a monocular green eye over the Monash Forum and finds something both sinister and hollow in the ambition to see a stable grid and power prices reduced. Reading the group's manifesto before misrepresenting it was, apparently, just too much trouble

Green/Left groupthink at Monash University has reached the point where the brains trust thought it a good idea to woo prospective students with a collage of violent social-justice film clips presented against a soundtrack of violent rap lyrics. Here's a better idea: don't send your kids there

While professed journalists were taking dutiful dictation from local alarmists keen to blame bushfires on global warming, a telling court case has been unfolding in California, where catastropharians set out to sue Big Oil for wrecking the planet. It hasn't gone as planned

Russia is said to have poisoned a defector with a nerve agent that has Moscow's fingerprints all over it. Why so careless? In Syria, one chemical incident among many prompts a massive air blitz. Again, why now? Only one truth shall can set free the questing, restless mind

Aboriginal gatekeepers, those who advance and police the preferred narrative, are happy for problems like violence and child abuse in Aboriginal communities to be discussed -- but only if Aboriginal perpetrators are excused and the white man blamed

It is one thing for the wets who installed Turnbull and whose obsessions he has championed to be shouting 'Unity!' For a genuinely great PM to have joined their chorus is quite another. What Liberals need is a summons to rediscover principles and the backbone to stand by them

Monday will make it thirty and beyond dispute: as a PM, political strategist, campaigner and man of principle, Malcolm Turnbull is a dud of the first order. An honourable man would stand down upon failing by the same yardstick with which he measured the greater achievements of another

If garden variety party members were to get the final say, the next Liberal leader would be more conservative than the for-the-moment incumbent. After the craven treachery of the elected elite who ousted Abbott in the absurd belief that Turnbull represented something more than ego, why not give rank-and-filers a shot?

When did we begin to accept mere opinion as unquestionable truth, with no hint of doubt or uncertainty allowed, no need for deeper knowledge, no possibility of error and no place for any change of mind? Such is the arrogance of the loudly uninformed that fervour these days overwhelms mere fact

It's not just cricket but the overall culture that has changed. Ball-tampering? Why not! Our age has seen objective, acceptable standards of behavior -- what constitutes agreed virtue, if you like -- replaced by the anchorless relativism that is now the whole world'd default operating system

The anti-nuclear movement spawned today's radical environmentalism. Using the 'front group' tactic beloved of communist agitators, it fed lies to sympathetic reporters and whipped reasonable concerns into hair-trigger sensitivities. Its progeny is your last and ever more outrageous electricity bill

To argue that chaplains be allowed in government schools is bespeaks no hidden attempt to convert students. To be culturally literate and  fully appreciate what underpins Western civilisation, students need to be familiar with the contribution and significance of Christianity

As Orwell's porcine propagandist put it, "loyalty and obedience are more important." Loyalty, in the case of the current government, to betraying free expression, promoting green myths and stupendous electricity bills and, most shamefully, to the blanket rejection of conservative principles

The arguments against constitutional monarchy are rooted in ideology, rather than a case, however tenuous, for improved function and practicality. 'National unity!' cry republicans, hoping none will notice the divisions they themselves sow and aim to exploit

The US President was put in an invidious predicament by Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and the many RINOs in the US Congress. They encased the desperately needed increased military spending inside an omnibus bill and gave Trump no option but to sign. Or did they?

Well-meaning folks will tell you green energy is cheap because wind and sun are free. The next time you hear such tripe, refer your interlocutor to this easy-to-grasp explanation why it isn't. So pithily laid out even a simpleton will understand, it remains beyond the ken of our federal government