Eighty years ago this weekend Japan's plans to seize Port Moresby and thereby dominate Australia's east coast were foiled at the Battle of the Coral Sea. More than that significant victory, the encounter between two naval forces which never came within gun range of each other marked the end of the battleship era and the ascendancy of the aircraft carrier

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Simon Holmes a Court's political harem of white, well-heeled women of the Left talk a good game about their independence but never reveal anything more than the various degrees of their climate hysteria. Contrast those queens of the Corflute sign with bona fide independent Dai Le, running against Kristina Keneally in Fowler

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The inquest into the horrific fire-bomb deaths of Hannah Clark and her three children at the hands of an estranged husband was not a fact-finding mission. Rather, it was a posthumous show trial that sought to hitch the monstrous act of a 'powder keg man' to the wagon of the latest feminist bandwagon – enthusiastic consent and, more importantly, the concept of 'coercive control'   

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Is it conceivable that the Ukraine war will end with Russia defeated and repentant? Seems as unlikely as a democratic Afghanistan. A negotiated compromise might be possible over coming months. But what if the war, fuelled by weaponry without limit, goes on and on for years? What then?

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Were the poet to take up his pen these days, well let's just say his gendered language, patriarchal values and indifference to rainbow issues would see him urged to change his ways or be stripped of arts-grant funding. How difficult, the commissars of culture might ask, would it be to produce couplets hailing non-binary toilet blocks and the green majesty of wind turbines

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My record as a political prognosticator isn't too shabby, so here's another prophecy you can take to the bank: Win, lose or hung parliament on May 21, it is likely that, at some stage in the not too distant future, Josh Frydenberg will take over from Morrison as leader of the federal Liberal Party

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'There will always be an Australian people,' John Curtin told the nation in March 1942, when Darwin was rubble and Broome strewn with corpses. In a remote WA farmhouse my father heard that broadcast and watched an old cocky rise from his chair to clean his rifle. These days, according to a recent poll, more Australians would flee than fight. Where and why has that old spirit gone?

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A cricket ball is a spherical object of specified weight and size with a cork core inside tightly wound string covered by a leather case. Were an eccentric neighbour to insist his orange is a cricket ball, we might let it pass out of kindness but would not go so far as to actually use it in a cricket match. Why, one wonders, are woke definitions of male and female not subjected to reality's likewise scrutiny?

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Mystery, myth and legend surround the second and third of the horrendous conflicts between Jews and Romans, leaving historians with the daunting task of weighing the zealotry, schisms and slaughters that ultimately led to the destruction of the Temple and may well have accounted for the concealment in their desert caves of the Dead sea Scrolls

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There seems these days a compulsion among many to downgrade and, indeed, to denigrate Christianity's legacies and presence. Re-assigning the celebration of the Messiah's death and resurrection to Ishtar, a bush league goddess of no known relevance, is the latest example

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