Turnbull is now just a few party-room votes away from getting his marching orders. A rash of Cabinet resignations would speed that exit and establish for the record those best qualified to begin repairing the immense damage this Prime Minister has wrought, not least bringing back the base

The ALP deserves to win the next election. Not because they’re any better, but because the Liberal Party ate itself alive years ago with  branch-stacking, back-stabbing and a contemptuous indifference to the grass-roots. Bill Shorten and Labor's wretched crew are no more than we deserve

The Left conquered and colonised our universities long ago, but the long march didn't stop there. In kindergartens across the country, while taxpayers and parents pay through the nose, kids not much more than tots are getting a full grounding in the politically correct gospel

Australians who gaze across the Pacific at America and its First Amendment can only feel short-changed, thoughts of Bill Leak and police charging promoters to protect free speech from thugs coming readily to mind. Look at New Zealand, however, and know that things there are even worse

Long before VicPol couldn't decide if Sudanese gangs exist and, if they do, what level of threat they represent, Melbourne had its problems with thugs of other varieties. A visiting Sydneysider who found a knife at throat recalls that incident and his brusque treatment as a complainant

The call for easily available divorce to counter the ‘oppression of marriage’ spawned  social and economic effects that have fallen disproportionately on the poor and less educated. Fatherless households, to cite but one malady, are far more likely to produce rapists and murderers

The Medical Board of Australia is pushing a draft code that would oblige physicians to accept and thereby endorse 'cultural practices' antithetical to both good medicine and civilised conduct. Female genital mutilation, payback spearings -- apparently these demand 'respect'

Today’s events might come to be regarded as the instant when a remedy began to counter the ills this vainglorious usurper inflicted on a once-great party. Hopeless optimism, you say? Perhaps, but finally there is hope of a return to a broad church with ablended liturgy of Burke and Mill

You're a Green with all goofy self-importance that implies, but as a representative of the people -- all the people, that is -- could you quit slandering your adopted homeland? I mean, if Australia is a hotbed of injustice and oppression, how does that square with your defence of arranged marriages?

When leftists brand conservatives as 'Nazis' they strip away all meaning, just as they have succeeded in doing with 'marriage' and 'racist'. When words are twisted to mean anything, what they convey is nothing but the speaker's presumed right to silence and assault all who disagree

I was praying at the Western wall of Solomon’s Temple, the holiest place of Judaism, the place which witnessed the beginning of the transformation of pagan humanity into Western civilisation. The experience of touching the hewn stone blocks, polished by a myriad kisses and caresses, was profound

Bill Shorten and his economy-sapping policies are in the wings. The Coalition's leftist-inclined leader is a dud surrounded by wets. The corporate world's chieftains think their job is to promote fashionable social causes rather than profits. Yes, we've got troubles with worse ahead

Nuclear submarines re-engineered as diesel-electrics, plus fighter planes that are a credible threat only in Lockheed salesmen's brochures -- this is the alleged backbone of our future defence. If being a spendthrift slow learner were an advantage, Australia's security would be guaranteed

For reasons that defy explanation the Australian National University condemned a perfectly adequate building that is also the heritage-listed point of origin for world-leading research in half a dozen disciplines. Why squander money and resources? Welcome to tertiary education in Australia

The score after this morning's Liberal party room meeting in Canberra: Malcolm Turnbull 1, Good Sense 0. How does 'Bill Shorten, PM' roll off the tongue? Borders opened to herds of prospective Labor voters. Electricity prices even more ruinous than now. Every fashionable theory about gender fluidity enshrined as law....

Can you believe this for-the-moment Prime Minister shared the NEG legislation with Labor while giving his own government the mushroom treatment? Not so long, and even allowing for Malcolm Turnbull's arrogant incompetence, I wouldn't have found it credible. But that's exactly how a leader without nous treated a party without pride

International trade isn't bad, having contributed mightily and indisputably to the prosperity of most nations. But free trade is not good , often leading to what might be called ‘overspecialisation' that undermines the integrity of the nation state on which our culture and security rest

The same lack of nous that inspired the double dissolution and an avalanche of lost seats is now confronting those promised corporate tax cuts, which the polls tells us will do little to win the electorate's hearts, minds and votes. Count on this Prime Minister, as always, to get it hopelessly wrong

What's 'rabble' in a Kiwi accent? 'Rubble', which is what the usual suspects' bid to silence Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux became after the standard slur-spit-and-scream tactics. Yes, their Auckland gig had to be cancelled, but they reached a far wider audience as a consequence

It is time for Australia to bring forth a political leader who will unashamedly put Australia and Australians first. This person won’t give away our advantage in cheap power, for starters, and will recognise immigration policy as the Ponzi scheme it is, a scam from which no long-term good can come