When the Sydney University academic fumes on op-ed pages about the wickedness of the Ramsay Centre and its promotion of the West's great books and thinkers, he does more than illustrate the decline of our tertiary institutions. Better than that, he proves the need for an antidote to the toxic piffle that is his and others' stock in trade

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You won't have heard of it, as the pilots of the Virgin A320 brought their plane safely back to earth despite being blitzed with erroneous warnings of imminent catastrophe. Three years after that close call, an ATSB report has laid out the peril of avionic systems that, like those of the 737-MAX, can be too smart by half

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Back for a visit to the land of my birth, I'm observing a nation being serially frustrated by a political class of Remainers whose prevarications have been intended from the very start to foil the popular will. As Cromwell might have put it, 'In the name of God, go!' Messy undoubtedly, but it's the only solution

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With facts in hand it comes as no surprise to learn that just about everything Parks Australia and the current stewards of Ayers Rock would have you believe is a lie. A mere few months from now the ascent made by millions visitors will be off limits and all of us, black and white alike, will be the poorer

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Unlike the weather, which never stays the same, the ABC remains a model of consistency, not to mention one-sided reporting, whenever there is an opportunity to beat the warmist drum. Reporter Stephanie March and her favoured talking head, Bill Hare, provided more of the familiar same

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The new Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme, a long-needed recasting of Chinese-Australians' relationship with the government of the country they left behind, is already fostering a change in attitude. It will become even more effective when local Chinese media fully grasp the ethnic press's obligation to serve the community, not the Communist Party

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When they buried Peter Coleman yesterday in Sydney, his own words were the most incisive testament to a life of principle and intellectual integrity. 'Once you have contracted the habit of looking behind the screen of life,' he wrote, 'once you are touched by the compulsion to examine conflicting values and ideas of the world, there is no turning back'

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Uncanny similarities between the testimony of George Pell’s accuser in Melbourne and claims made about another alleged incident in Philadelphia four years before cannot be explained by mere coincidence. They raise serious doubts about the witness’s veracity

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Watching the daily stand-up comedy that passes for government in Canberra, one notices there is little difference between the major political parties. They trade insults and barbs, make florid accusations and insist to the public they are different as night and day. Night and dusk would be more accurate

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You can almost hear the cogs ticking over, slowly, in the Liberal party room: If we make too much of a fuss about Labor's electric vehicles policies and how impractical they are, why we'll never win over a single Greens voter! Meanwhile, the issues that might win back a disenchanted base go unrecognised

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