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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When Sydney University awarded Peter the degree of Doctor of Letters, its citation acknowledged his contribution “to the intellectual life of Australia and to its world of letters for more than fifty years”. True as those words were, they remain an understatement

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Australian juries are no longer what they once were. The guilty verdict in the George Pell case was not decided by balancing scales of evidence and reason and delivering a finding beyond a reasonable doubt. Other influences were at work

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Australian juries are no longer what they once were. The guilty verdict in the George Pell case was not decided by balancing scales of evidence and reason and delivering a finding beyond a reasonable doubt. Other influences were at work

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Instead of the child sexual abuse identified by a 2008 coronial inquiry as a driver of youth suicide in remote Aboriginal communities, the latest finding prefers to blame 'colonisation'. The 'cultural healing program' urged as a solution will suit ideologues and activists but not children taking their own lives

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Rather than being a day of shame, January 26 provides Australian history with a firm foundation. We know precisely when civilisation came to this continent in the form of literacy, commerce and industry, judicial independence and rule of law, individual rights, free speech and Christianity

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The murder and attempted murder in Bourke Street, Melbourne, last month by the Somali-born terrorist Hassan Khalif Shire Ali produced one positive outcome. It prompted Prime Minister Scott Morrison to break the mould of over-cautious political statements that has so far determined responses to acts of this kind. Morrison declared radical Islam a threat to […]

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Dr Anne Aly was quick to downplay the Bourke Street rampage as somehow less worthy of attention and action than domestic violence. To this specious argument add a possible breach of Section 44(iv) of the Constitution prohibiting MPs from holding offices of profit under the Crown. Keith Windschuttle reports

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Morrison should reference the best recent formulation of Australian identity and history, courtesy of Noel Pearson, who argues the nation embodies three traditions: the first Australians, who roamed this continent for 65,000 years, long before the ages of Babylon, Athens and Rome; the British inheritance dating from the voyages of James Cook, the initial colony […]

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Within the long, honourable and peculiarly Australian tradition of hard-edged newspaper cartooning, John Spooner has marked out his own distinct ground. His new book, like his decades of published work, is a testament to wit, courage and the integrity of an independent mind

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