The idea that 'systemic racism' sees Aborigines imprisoned, killed or both in disproportionate numbers isn’t supported by the facts. Indeed, the opposite is true.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are given lesser sentences because they are indigenous. Racism really is at work, but it's in the form of 'positive discrimination'

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In early July, when online bookies posted odds of 3-1 on President Trump being re-elected, I put $400 on The Donald taking the laurels on Nov 3. The odds have come way down since then, and the vision and principles showcased at the GOP convention make me think they will shrink even further

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Chess offers no excuses. You start with equal forces. All pieces are visible and every move is chosen. The death of your king is entirely your fault -- unless, that is, your opponent succumbs to a lust for greatness as old as Adam and Eve and enters the tournament with a computer concealed in his shoe

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In the latest installment of Mervyn Bendle's guide to Sir Kenneth Clark's landmark series, the focus shifts to religious conflicts that reframed perspectives in a divided Europe, from Catholicism's reverence for tradition and authority to a Protestant embrace of reason and experience as the basis of knowledge

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Being branded 'batshit crazy' for expressing concern that a once great state is led by a liar and policed by brass-encrusted apparatchiks is hardly likely to restore confidence in a police force beset by scandals, from stitching up a cardinal to turning Lawyer X against her clients. If Daniel Andrews is allowed to continue, his police will become the enemy of the people, not their defenders

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Ireland lost a champion of 'civilised good taste' when the son of Diana Mitford passed away at the age of 88. Had it not been for him, the country would have lost a good deal more, notably the Georgian homes and heritage he spent an adult lifetime protecting and preserving

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The summer's bushfires might have focused attention on the relationship between fuel loads and fire intensity. But no, precious little of that. Instead, with but a passing nod to fuel-reduction policies, the current royal commission is raving about climate change. Abandon hope, Australia -- we're going to burn all over again

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Poison the wells of truth with years of lies, confected exhibits and biased reporting and the defendant's chance of a fair hearing is erased, as George Pell learnt to his immense cost. Well the Cardinal is far from alone in being railroaded. Climate sceptics and their evidence have been getting the same treatment for decades

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Australians can't vote in US elections, so there is no practical reason for the ABC's Washington-based luvvies to ape and echo America's rabidly anti-Trump mainstream media, yet that is what they do. What the national broadcaster most needs, in addition to embracing fact-based journalism, is a cleansing dose of salts

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The need in this post-modern age, when the Left's fabrications are repeated so often they come to be accepted as truth by the uniformed, is for conservatives to arm themselves with the facts and respond resolutely. Yes, it will rile your interlocutor, but who values the friendship of those who cannot be trusted?

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