Powerful women appropriate the rhetoric of liberal feminism to further their own destructive agendas.
New progressives wield their power through the culture, knowledge and policy production now at the centre of the economy. And they do it with much enthusiasm for extending unilateral judicial power.
Would more sitting days in Canberra actually result in more, and better, work being done?
The Vietnam War was racist and genocidal at its essence -- and we cannot ignore that character any longer.
To the big taxpayer-subsidised helicopter in the sky?
We are not "better than" the abuses at Don Dale and Nauru. Torture and brutality are who we are.
In some ways, Rudd’s reference to the UN being a 20th-century body needing 21st-century relevance contains some truth, but evidently not in the way that he means, writes UN adviser Robert Johnson
When Frank Walker was in office in the early 1980s there was no heroin epidemic, no talkback radio law and order campaigns, and there were less than 4000 people in prison in NSW, writes Bob Debus.
The mass murderer who targeted disabled people in a care facility in Japan said he wanted people with disabilities to "disappear". Our society seems to agree.
Grilling banking executives is an extraordinary intrusion into business. And it won't achieve anything.
