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I don’t know if Anthony Albanese actually learned anything from his recent sojourn at the United Nations, but I doubt it. So far as I could tell, he spent most of his time hugging and kissing any...
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Any normal person would know that at my advanced age and imminent senility, the last thing I should be doing is flaunting myself around, looking for true romance. And I agree with them. But I have to...
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In the last week, Melongate has proceeded along its sordid way. But it has now taken on a new significance. It was bad enough when it consisted solely of the Prime Minister’s vulgarities and his...
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The Spectator Australia has just received a leak of the latest entry in the private diary of Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister. ‘You could have knocked me down with a feather at the end of my gruelling...
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That’s about it, for me and the Liberal party. For a while there, I had almost come back to its warm embrace, at least so far as the Victorian party and the coming state election were concerned. My...
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It is curious that Anthony Albanese’s bizarre contribution to the podcast Bush Deep has been allowed to fade away from public scrutiny. It might be because it is just another tasteless gaffe by a...
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Here at the Political Research Centre, we have just finished a major project involving no less an undertaking than setting up a new political party. This has been a long and arduous process, covering...
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One of the more endearing features of life in Melbourne is the coverage given in the Age to the arts and culture and in particular the vigorous and critical debate in which that organ regularly engages...
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Recently, an issue arose that was a milestone in public affairs. It surfaced in a speech by Justice Ian Jackman, a Federal Court Judge, at a conference held by the Rule of Law Institute, a ginger group...
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Melbourne is presently engaged in one of those uniquely Melburnian controversies where everyone has an opinion on some allegedly moral issue of right and wrong. This time, the outrage is directed at...
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I don’t normally do obituaries except, as the politicians and lawyers say, ‘in exceptional circumstances’. And there could be no more exceptional circumstances than those in the case of the former...
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Here at the Free Enterprise Centre for Law Reform, we have been slaving away on some long-overdue improvements to the commercial and property law of Australia. In fact, we have finally found a way of...
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It is with a tone of despair, but some optimism, that I have been cogitating on the result of the Farrer by-election, the decline of the Liberal party, One Nation’s resurgence as a major political...
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When politicians talk about ‘reform’, I am instantly suspicious. If the good Dr Samuel Johnson was right in defining patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, and he probably was, reform must be...
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Until recently, I thought that Australia was free from the scourge of activist judges. But in view of events of the last few weeks, I am not so sure. In fact, it looks as if we are well and truly in...
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We keep being told that the coming budget will be the most significant for many a year. That may be so, but the softening-up process we are being subjected to by the government on a daily basis is...
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The Albanese government seems to have abandoned its plan to increase the size of the parliament and give us the one thing we do not need: more politicians. But the operative word is ‘seems’. The plan...
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I watched on Tuesday the appearance at the National Press Club of the Israeli Ambassador to Australia, Dr Hillel Neuman. I thought he did a pretty good job in presenting Israel’s defence of its...
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It may seem strange to see me praising the Age. But Melburnians owe it an enormous debt for exposing major scandals and at the same time giving us the moral guidance we need in these troubled times....
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Of all the weasel words used by politicians to conceal what they are really up to, ‘reform’ must be the most deceptive. Not only does it not have the meaning the political class give it, but that...
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