You won't have heard of it, as the pilots of the Virgin A320 brought their plane safely back to earth despite being blitzed with erroneous warnings of imminent catastrophe. Three years after that close call, an ATSB report has laid out the peril of avionic systems that, like those of the 737-MAX, can be too smart by half

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Unlike the weather, which never stays the same, the ABC remains a model of consistency, not to mention one-sided reporting, whenever there is an opportunity to beat the warmist drum. Reporter Stephanie March and her favoured talking head, Bill Hare, provided more of the familiar same

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The new Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme, a long-needed recasting of Chinese-Australians' relationship with the government of the country they left behind, is already fostering a change in attitude. It will become even more effective when local Chinese media fully grasp the ethnic press's obligation to serve the community, not the Communist Party

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When they buried Peter Coleman yesterday in Sydney, his own words were the most incisive testament to a life of principle and intellectual integrity. 'Once you have contracted the habit of looking behind the screen of life,' he wrote, 'once you are touched by the compulsion to examine conflicting values and ideas of the world, there is no turning back'

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Uncanny similarities between the testimony of George Pell’s accuser in Melbourne and claims made about another alleged incident in Philadelphia four years before cannot be explained by mere coincidence. They raise serious doubts about the witness’s veracity

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Watching the daily stand-up comedy that passes for government in Canberra, one notices there is little difference between the major political parties. They trade insults and barbs, make florid accusations and insist to the public they are different as night and day. Night and dusk would be more accurate

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For three years, a former ABC senior producer oversaw a lavishly underwritten 'gotcha' on Pauline Hanson, complete with an agent provocateur, his bogus gun-rights lobby group, faux website and numerous undercover international jaunts, all funded by Al Jazeera and the government of Qatar. If this journalism, every con artist is a journalist

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'The Last Intellectuals: Essays on Writers & Politics' remains an outstanding book that illuminates when Coleman and others like him stepped forward to hold the line before one of the most sinister threats in the history of the world. A battle far from over, it was one he never shirked from fighting

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Casual and often subtle, the post-massacre draping of political agendas in mourning's weeds now begins almost before the bodies are cold. The Christchurch slaughter was Trump's fault ... or Abbott's ... or a consequence of endemic white racism. Just fill in the desired enemy and get ready for Twitter fame and photo ops

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My ABC pen pal Reena Rihan handles complaints about the national broadcaster's deviations from fact and truth, so she must be a rather busy lady. Still, while my gripe about the omission of the word 'allegedly' didn't get much traction, a gross and green-tinted error proved just too big to rationalise

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