At the Garma Festival, Noel Pearson lavished praise on former Chief Justice Murray Gleeson’s call for the recognition of an Aboriginal Voice in the Constitution. Pearson said the judge had demolished the conservative case put by the Institute of Public Affairs and journalist Andrew Bolt that “race has no place” in the Constitution. Keith Windschuttle disagrees

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There is a notable disparity between the sea-rise data sets favoured by catastropharian climateers and actual observations. What those numbers highlight most of all is the distorting green lens through which one-eyed advocates choose to see that which exists only in their doom-laden imaginations

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A conquering ideology takes well-meaning accommodation as a sign of weakness and, inevitably, it always commands more of the same. The freedom to pursue one's faith is one thing. The ongoing push for laws that protect believers from feeling “offended” comes primarily from Islamic groups and is another matter entirely

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Dorothy wasn't in Kansas anymore when she pulled back the green curtain and exposed the Mighty Oz for the fraud he was. Americans have just had a similar revelatory experience as the Russiagate special counsel revealed himself to be a doddering, incoherent figurehead hired to tint the intended coup against Donald Trump with a patina of probity

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The people of North Korea are spirited, genial and curious, despite the unenviable situation of being subjected daily to the regime's blatant crimes against humanity, dignity, truth and liberty. When one observes firsthand the regime and its subjects – oppressors and oppressed – then one understands why change is simultaneously imperative and imponderable

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There are nine quick lessons to be drawn from the Russiagate special counsel's doddering, distracted and incoherent responses to questions during last week's marathon testimonies before House and Senate intelligence committees. The first is that Australia's media mostly neglected to report what a fool he appeared. The ninth is that Trump will win in 2020

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You may have noticed the current US President has the capacity to drive celebrities right around the bend, although few have journeyed further into the fanciful plains of madness and baseless accusation than Bette Midler. A supremely talented performer without a doubt, she's a reminder that the ability to hold a note is no indication of sanity

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That day in Ravenna I had seen nine different Divine images, but not a single one of an older man. The image of the Heavenly Father resembling no one so much as Zeus first appeared in French illustrations of the thirteenth century -- a far cry from the depictions of the early Church

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When even Bob Brown decries wind turbines and their environmental damage you know the technology's moment has all but passed. And the Greens' patron saint is not the only one to lose the faith. Time magazine "environmental hero" Michael Shellenberger, who once campaigned against all nuclear reactors, now says the atom is the only responsible way to go

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Would any Aboriginal leaders have the hide to air Recognition's real intent -- to formally divide Australians by race -- as a nation prepared to cast its votes in the referendum Ken Wyatt endorsed in his address to the National Press Club? I doubt it. Such frankness would guarantee yet another entry in the long ledger of referenda Australians have rejected at the ballot box

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