Don’t like election outcomes? Change the electorate
The intelligentsia expected the Brexit vote to produce a predetermined result, that of an elite of the correct-thinking.
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The Cape escape
An insider’s guide to eating out when you’re down south in Western Australia.
Bigger challenges await us in 2019
Autocrats from Riyadh to Ankara seem able to get away with anything — as long as they are buying US goods.
Financial downturn signals flashing red
Investors are sensing trouble and word searches for “recession” have spiked.
Trump’s overriding success is as radical agent for change
Donald Trump has ushered in a new era for US foreign policy and party politics.
PvO: Libs’ resistance ‘wrong’
The Liberal Party only needs to look across the chambers of parliament to Labor to see the error of its ways.
SCRUBLANDS
Opening pages of the best Australian novels this year: Scrublands by Chris Hammer.
Blood in the water but experts are still at sea on shark danger
It is increasingly dangerous to enter the surf but authorities are in denial.
NO RESPITE FROM DOG OF A YEAR
The year began with hope — but alas, it was instead replete with false prophecy, historical distortions and self-loathing.
Hobble business, and hardworking Australians suffer
We can’t turn against the forces that have delivered an enviable quality of life in this country.
Coming to grips with the millennial mind
Mathematics lecturer Clio Cresswell foresees a world divided into a numerate priesthood and an innumerate mass.
Unlikely as it once seemed, Shorten on cusp of becoming PM
Whatever you think of Labor’s plans for government, there is no denying the opposition’s willingness to present a large target.
ALP’s owners hope to turn back time
Next year we have this to look forward to: being ruled by new Labor, which remains tied to the socialist objective set out in 1921.
Without transcendence, it’s just tinsel Without transcendence we are left with only the tinsel
The Chinese authorities that banned Christmas grasp its power better than many in the West.
The challenges mount for America’s disrupter-in-chief
It has been a turbulent year for Donald Trump — and the most difficult phase of his presidency hasn’t even started yet.
We’re running on borrowed time Running on borrowed time as negative trends emerge
Australian exceptionalism continued to weaken as the threat of dysfunction grew through 2018.
Ruinous energy policy is all pain with no gain
Like the Blob from the sci-fi movie, a spineless, pointless Liberal Party faction is smothering everything in its path.
The festival of Christmas
Whether you believe or not, you can’t repudiate the power of Christianity without forsaking so much that has made us what we are.
Baby, it’s even colder outside
There’s no room left to play hard to get, as harmless flirtation drives the new puritans wild.
Hot news but not on TV
Why Karl couldn’t just tell his bride no is a mystery, but there is one woman who could have saved him — and it’s not his ex-wife.
Withdrawal symptoms
Critics ignore the merits of Donald Trump’s Syrian strategy.
Welcome to the dynasty of XI Welcome to the global dynasty of Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping’s goal is nothing less than to reshape the world. And he is succeeding. The West has seen nothing quite like this.
Coalition could benefit from ‘doing the hypocrisies’
Four decades ago, in a private conversation that was relayed to me at the time, Malcolm Fraser spoke of “doing the hypocrisies”.
Evidence is a stranger in Labor policy push
Never mind earworms; Labor’s drift to more discordant ways should be what’s bugging you.
We ignore religious teachings and tolerance at our peril
Discrimination against the foundations of our successful society makes no sense at all.
GETUP’S NINE DECIDING VOTES
The pro-Greens and ALP outfit’s tiny board picks all its campaigns. So who is actually in charge?
YESTERDAY’S MAN, AS OF TODAY
Karl Stefanovic’s fate on Nine was sealed once he lost his likeability.
To uncharted territory
The NT is on a steady trajectory towards fiscal catastrophe.
SURPLUS CHAMPAGNE ON ICE
The forecast is too tiny and still too far away to justify rejoicing over an improvement in the fiscal outlook.
CLIMATE TRIBES CLOUD TALKS
The Poland climate change talks were mostly about keeping alive the hopes engendered by the Paris Agreement.
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