October 2021
Perrottet runs the risk of being a conservative in name only
On spending, lockdowns, climate, education and the public service, the new NSW Premier is captured by his left-leaning cabinet and government officials.
August 2015
Why do Australian elites think racism lurks in every suburb?
Constitutional recognition of Aborigines gets less likely every time academics like Marcia Langton tell suburban Australians they are a bunch of Eskie-wielding racists and bigots.
July 2015
Mark Latham: campaigns on domestic violence must not miss the real targets
To satisfy left-wing feminist theories, concern about domestic violence is being focused on too many of the wrong places.
Mark Latham: Domestic violence is caused by poverty, not patriarchy
Julia GiIllard created a plethora of new agencies to deal with domestic violence. Sadly, none will achieve anything except to create jobs for her Left-feminist mates.
Mark Latham claims the trade union royal commission has missed the mark
Bill Shorten should have nothing to fear from an inquiry that has missed the chance to take on the faction system at the heart of Labor's malaise.
June 2015
Latham: Bill Shorten is a non-event
Labor's leader likes issues that are easy and symbolic. Unless he learns to grapple with substantial policy questions, the Coalition is destined to stay in the Lodge.
It's Yes Minister in the Islamic State era
Mark Latham tries to unravel the logic behind our involvement in Iraq.
Julia Gillard put her career before feminism
Julia Gillard wanted a known bully, a man who mistreated women in the workplace, to move into The Lodge.
May 2015
The rise and rise of the Australian Labor Right-Leftie
What's happened to the Right faction so that it now resembles a Phillip Adams/Anne Summers dinner party?
The right's endless march of militaristic Anzac folly
Germans, global communism, jihadists and the Chinese: Australia's conservative war party always needs to find an imagined enemy.
April 2015
Why we care more about 'Gogglebox' than Gallipoli
Australians have lost interest in the Gallipoli story. Now young people are more likely to say "Why didn't they stay home and set up a business and make some money instead?"
Anzac Day marks a century of failed foreign policy
There are far too many parallels between Gallipoli and the conflicts that we fight in today. It is time for an independent foreign policy.
Airheads take flight in Australian media
Shelley Gare's 2006 'The Triumph of the Airheads' identified one of the most debilitating trends in modern politics: the dumbing down of public debate.
No votes in trying to whip up fracking fears
The green left is taking its lead from stars famous for playing fictional characters, or from the fictional fears pushed by coal seam gas activists. But the voters aren't listening.
Fracks and frictions: why CSG debate is driven by the 'loony left'
Let's call it Latham's Law: never watch a movie ending in "man".
March 2015
Bill Shorten's Labor Party has turned to policy marshmallow
The most talked-about idea in today's Labor Party has nothing to do with public policy.
The one crucial difference between worry and anxiety
The Left is using mental health as a tool for more government intervention into our lives.
February 2015
The socialist Tony Abbott you never knew existed
Oscar Wilde might have declared socialism to be impractical "because it takes up too many evenings", but Tony Abbott has no such concern.
January 2015
Winning tactics in a mug’s game
It’s been a tough Christmas, readers. As Jacqueline Maley kindly pointed out in ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’, I’ve been run off my feet.