China and the Phony Wars
‘You’re a phony,’ said Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, exercising a disparaging phrase…More
Browsing: Australian Politics
A Tale of Two Chieftains
I have had very few encounters with Kevin Rudd, but one that stands out occurred…More
Blogs To You!
‘A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself,’ said the great American…More
Brainless on the Potomac
Stephen Colbert plays Bill O’Reilly on TV. Day after day, Colbert parodies, mocks and otherwise…More
Thoughts From An Unlikely Switch-Off Activist
The IT industry loves my family. We’re the kind of folk it refers to as…More
Children of the Enlightenment
The Western world is considered by many observers as being in a catastrophic state of…More
Holding a Moral Compass
Forty years ago, 90 per cent of voters in the 1967 referendum gave very clear…More
Do We Really Need a Police Force?
In anticipation of the installation in September of Andrew Scipione as the new NSW Police…More
A Sub-Prime Morality Play
Global financial markets went pear-shaped last week. They do that from time to time. The…More
The Greenhouse Mafia
Last month I wrote about author and former Howard Government adviser Dr Guy Pearse’s take…More