1+ hour, 3+ min ago   (522+ words) I’ve long heard the ‘fair go’ held up as a core Australian value. Kevin Rudd once called it a ‘fair shake of the sauce bottle’. It reminded me of the opening of Strictly Ballroom, all high-pitched cultural cringe and middle-aged…...

2+ hour, 34+ min ago   (442+ words) If the Coalition’s primary objective is to defeat Labor, the obvious strategy is surely glaringly simple: if they cannot say something good about One Nation, they should say nothing at all. Badmouthing One Nation will make headlines and delight the…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago   (452+ words) Unlike a few others, I was prepared to give Andy Burnham the benefit of the doubt – and hold back on any trenchant criticism of him until he actually did something wrong. Well, just three weeks into his premiership that moment…...

3+ hour, 24+ min ago   (735+ words) The Spectator Australia The welcome crackdown on neon signs and vape shops One of the things that all visitors to London notice is the contrast between Oxford Street and Regent Street. Oxford Street is riddled with tacky little shops selling…...

3+ hour, 33+ min ago   (182+ words) After being toppled by his own MPs in 2018, former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull vowed he would not hang around his successors like a ‘miserable ghost’. He hasn’t kept his promise. Politically, however, Aukus is fraught. The three leaders who…...

3+ hour, 27+ min ago   (176+ words) The Jason Arday scandal might seem extraordinary to many. It is less surprising for those of us in academia who have witnessed how structures have been put in place to ensure that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) poster boys like…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago   (986+ words) The Spectator Australia Iran containment has failed; Europe must enable the transition A democratic and secular Iran would remove one of the main drivers of regional instability and mass migration into Europe The images of thousands of Moroccans pouring across…...

5+ hour, 40+ min ago   (310+ words) Tom Lewis has written a challenging article in these pages arguing that, as the headline accurately sums up his position, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was ‘necessary, and the most merciful option’ and that all the military, political,…...

6+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1684+ words) The great membership institutions of Australian life – the churches, the unions, the parties, the married family – are dying of the same disease. There is one institution kept its default: the nation. You are born into it. It is difficult to…...

1+ day, 26+ min ago   (477+ words) There is a particular kind of Australian argument that goes on for years without anyone thinking to check the equipment. For the past two decades we have been conducting one of these about religion. The Census says the proportion of…...