How could it be that a belligerent drunk with the sexual appetite of an antipodean Harvey Weinstein rose to become Australia's prime minister? The answer is simple. When you have an adoring media in your pocket, as Troy Bramston explains in his terrific tell-all biography, there's no funny business you can't get away with

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SBS series 'The Australian Wars' is the latest example of what we are being told is 'truth telling', a process apparently defined as being whatever an Aboriginal activist says to the non-Aboriginal majority of Australians. Labor is fine with this, while the Liberals appear unaware of the threat to the ultimate integrity of the Australian nation state

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If Voice supporters believe their referendum failed because people did not understand it, they will simply try again later and this issue will remain a festering sore in our public discourse for years to come. This divisive and dangerous proposal must be scotched at the ballot box, but it it is essential that its rejection be based on overarching principle, not the fine print

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After more than two years of panic, hysteria, self-promoting know-nothings, police violence and policies that could never have led to anything but the massive and pointless disruption of millions of lives, things on the COVID front have settled to the point where a rational post mortem is not merely possible but essential. Simply put, we need a fair, open and sweeping royal commission

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Convinced of their importance to the planet, three warmist academics are calling on colleagues to stop producing climate research. This, so they believe, will persuade governments to finally, you know, do something. While such a result seems highly unlikely, the notion of academia's grant-fed alarmists falling silent holds a definite appeal

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Many viewers of Her Majesty's funeral would not have known they were watching an ordinary, entirely normal service -- or, to be more correct, what was until recently the standard rite. Then liturgical re-inventors sacrificed the Book of Common Prayer on modernity's altar, replaced the King James Version and made even the simplest of clerical dress optional

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If you've not heard of Italian physicist Gianluca Alimonti, no surprise there. As the lead author of a study that rates the so-called climate crisis as so much overblown nonsense, his is not the kind of news welcomed by vendors of green snake oil, rent-seekers and the climate hysterics in their thrall. So here for the record are some of his team's findings

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At its best, the monarchy incorporates a profound solidity to be passed from generation to generation. To declare a republic and give the nation a new charter requires something metaphysically deep, a foundation of rock not of sand. Unless and until that is the case, I will not be voting, as in my youth, for severing us from the monarchy  

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Better known as Lord Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth was the dynamo who built a newspaper empire the like of which would not be seen again until Rupert Murdoch bettered him many years later. The lord of Fleet Street might have appreciated that, since it was his mentoring of Keith Murdoch that put ink in the family's veins, as author Andrew Roberts details in a new biography

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In 1984's dystopian world New­speak cripples the expression of clear thought in plain speech, thus making 'thoughtcrime' impossible as there are no words in which to express it. The Left saw that as a really neat idea and assiduously promote the hobbling of language and meaning, especially in our schools and universities

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