Trent Dalton’s best-seller 'Boy Swallows Universe' is hard to put down, as readers and reviewers around the world have discovered. Beyond the sordid saga of family dysfunction, drug dealing, criminality and ultimate redemption, what we find in its pages is the mainstreaming of post-Christian mysticism

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A grim benefit of the schools' closure has been the opportunity for parents' to observe the Left's brainwashing of their kids. While my son's assignments purport to promote a mastery of English, the lesson plan's naked agenda is the promotion of identity politics, all rooted in the presumption that facts and history can be re-shaped at will to serve ideological ends

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Australians have received 100 Victoria Crosses: 96 to the Army and four to the RAAF. Sixty-four were awarded in World War I and 20 in WWII. That the Royal Australian Navy has never been awarded a VC is an injustice made all the more galling by the latest sad chapter in the fight to see the heroism of Teddy Sheean and others finally recognised

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To the extent the populace can be persuaded to remain fearful, leaders will remain popular as resolute protectors of human life. But once the realisation gains traction that the WuFlu's lethality has been much exaggerated and lives trashed for no good reason, opinion will turn swiftly against those who imposed 'cures' far worse than the disease

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After the utter humiliation of the 7-0 decision by the nation's highest court, the Cardinal's persecutors and their media handmaidens savoured a much-needed morale boost when the royal commission's three redacted sections were released. Like so much about this witch hunt's travesties of law and journalism, they were kidding themselves

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Politicians have self-exculpation in their DNA, so don't expect anything resembling a coronial inquiry into the decisions and actions that have done so much to kill the economy. Instead, count on the various state and federal health officers to be garlanded with medals as our leaders claim credit for saving millions of lives

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New Zealand has had no new cases of coronavirus for more than a month after its strict lockdown began, which makes PM Jacinda Ardern's legislation allowing police to search homes without warrant all the more reprehensible. Could it be that she loves power more than she fears the Wuhan flu?

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Recent rains in the bushfire-prone southeast corner of the country mean we probably won't see more megafires until the next drought dries out the fuel load and the land erupt yet again. As always when there are grants to be snaffled, 'climate change' will be named the culprit. What a pity that funding doesn't go to the study of fire history

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Green activism never rests. While the Wuhan flu has been hogging the headlines, academic ecologists have been beavering away in their quest to shut down what is left of Australia's timber industry. Their tools: absurd claims and spurious 'science' spoon fed to gullible reporters

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If Alan Jones' long career at the microphone teaches us anything it is that the Left must be challenged and contested at every turn. Let their inclinations to control and censor go unchallenged and they will continue to hip-and-shoulder civil debate from democracy's stage and force it further into the wings

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