Hong Kong's restiveness is China's nightmare as it tries to hold together 1.4 billion people from fifty different sub-nationalities. This is where the unprecedented and overwhelming size and stamina of the current protests matters enormously. Scale is what China is all about, and the knock-on upheavals, should the demonstrations be suppressed or allowed to continue, are earth-shaking

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Overshadowed by the more elegant and glamorous Spitfire, the Battle of Britain's trusty war-horse has never enjoyed the recognition it deserved as a gun platform and dogfighter. The RAF's long-secret, combat-tested comparison of the Hawker aircraft with its Messerschmitt arch foe details a different story -- a plane more than a match for the Hun in the sun

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The Apostle's words on adultery, fornication and homosexual acts amount to no more than a scant few per cent of his writings, yet without framing those admonitions against vice against the circumstances and customs of his times there can be no grasp of his message and intentions

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A planned 50 per cent increase in school funding over the next decade, on top of a 50 per cent increase in the past decade, is unlikely to make much difference as long as two-thirds of Australian youngsters are educated in state school systems that are essentially run by teacher unions

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Separating an innocent parent from his or her children by means of false allegations to obtain financial advantage constitutes an extremely serious form of child abuse. Yet the system not only encourages such abuse, it more often than not declines to punish it

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The High Court recently struck down Tasmanian legislation as unconstitutional without anywhere in the hugely long judgment pointing to any provision in the actual written Constitution. Whatever else this 'voice’ proposal turns out to be, it will be deemed mighty useful by an activist bench

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Men are expected to provide support for the life they co-created, yet feminist dogma and the law insist they have no right to determine if a pregnancy will be allowed to go to term. That's just one reason why excluding men from the abortion decision is wrong. Here are nine more equally solid arguments

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In one of those unhappy coincidences, NSW and New Zealand each made abortion legal on the same day. The media's conduct has been beneath contempt, which is hardly a surprise, but that of alleged conservatives, especially in Macquarie Street, has been far, far worse

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Those messing about with the mullahs via hard talk and sanctions are whistling in the wind. And each year Iran gets closer to having its bomb and the effective means of delivering it on target. Choices are clear: sit back and let Tehran get its bomb -- or take serious action to stop it

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The Left made a calculated decision to exploit clerical child abuse as the most potent weapon against the Catholic Church, especially conservatives such as George Pell. If an appeals court overturns that absurd verdict, brace for an eruption of sustained and volcanic rage

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