The ABC's online archive lists 14 recent references to Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, but by some strange oversight the national broadcaster has made no mention of her big-ticket real estate dealings or of her growing personal fortune. As the overseas reports the ABC ignores make clear, her finances are very much in the black

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If COVID takes the cake when it comes to hysteria, climate-change alarmism is not far behind -- the grim prospects each elicits keeping choirs of garrulous 'experts' before the cameras. Meanwhile, the virus of China's predatory ambitions rolls relentlessly along. A little perspective would not go astray

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Critics assumed Prince Philip's remark about Aborigines skewering each other was a manifestation of what they took to be his naked racism. Well let me set the record straight: prompting his question were memories of 1954 in Townsville, where local warriors entertained the royal couple by doing just that, throwing spears at each other

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Dudley Doherty graduated from playing the euphonium in a Salvation Army band to the wartime military, where he made the acquaintance of an up-and-coming lad, Corporal Abe Saffron. Right up until his death, Doherty, by then a key intelligence operative, did 'Mr Sin's' books. What brings all this to mind? The ABC's first-rate investigation of the Ghost Train fire

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Prince Philip's mantra was and remained that his role was to support the Queen. At every key moment in her reign he was beside her, albeit three paces behind her. Today, as Londoners defy COVID restrictions to gather outside Buckingham Palace, we reprise Mark McGinness's 2017 essay on the man who was always there

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We have heard much lately of women's empathy, their charity, how they care more about people, the community, the environment. Let me balance this sexist stereotyping with its obverse: Manifested at the ballot box, those same alleged virtues have long fouled the political process, the sainted Margaret Thatcher being the exception that proves the rule

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Last week Victoria's Appeal Court overturned the conviction or a man accused of sexually abusing a child in 1962. So how did the Herald Sun choose to illustrate its reports? With several pictures of the Cardinal, who had absolutely nothing to do with the alleged crime.

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The Porter case tells us everything we need to know about the pathetic age we inhabit, from its rabble-rousing media hacks to mediocre politicians and talentless toadies enjoying unnatural relations with office furniture. By the way, aren’t those aforementioned desk molesters gay? Hardly mentioned, as it's hetero males who are the designated targets

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Those with a greater instinct for charity than truth are invited to sling some tax-deductible cash to Professor Bruce Pascoe's not-for-profit 'Aboriginal agriculture' startup, Black Duck Foods. Those wary of a fauxboriginal who makes stuff up as his narrative need demands will reap the dividend of a good laugh at the expense of corporations and institutions backing a monumental fraud

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In the modern gender jungle 'My Fair Lady' is no longer a light and durably popular entertainment, an exercise in humour and irony, but a 'text' to be deplored for its 'infuriating smugness', bullying and mansplaining. To quote Professor Higgins, there are indeed some female heads full of 'cotton, hay and rags'

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