Der Spiegel notes China’s unusual handling of its earthquake disaster: In the aftermath of China’s devastating earthquake, Prime Minsister Wen Jiabao is running around the...
Der Spiegel notes China’s unusual handling of its earthquake disaster: In the aftermath of China’s devastating earthquake, Prime Minsister Wen Jiabao is running around the...
Michelle Grattan on Kevin Rudd’s Budget: But the budget, product of primarily of Rudd, Swan and Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner, should be “Labor” enough to...
SAMIR Ograzden must have had in him something good that should have been saved. Or at least not ground into the dirt. His girlfriend reckons...
I’ve heard two aid officials in radio interviews - one on Derryn Hinch’s 3AW program - go out of their way to forgive or even...
Brendan Nelson first attacks the Budget for not being ”anti-inflationary”, and then demands this: BRENDAN Nelson has challenged Kevin Rudd to slash petrol taxes by...
She’s right - but I suspect she won’t be thanked for that or for being so principled: SYDNEY Swans star Adam Goodes has been branded...
Matt Hayden is astonished. In January he posted, as a joke, this absurd item of mockery on his blog Die, Fluffy Wuffy, Die: And...
Malcolm Turnbulla fortnight ago was against a Budget that cut spending to fight inflation: My reason for saying that is firstly, if the Federal Government...
Curious. The huge tax rise of alcopops was sold by the Rudd Government not as a tax grab, but a pious attempt to stop teenagers...
West Australian Liberal leader Troy Buswell may have sniffed seats, but draws a line: Asked if he had done anything inappropriate to a quokka, Mr...
Reader John says one Budget tax hike breaks a promise by the Rudd Government to keep prices low: “Oil firms hit as loophole closes” Yeah,...
Abosultely heartfelt, absolutely brilliant, absolutely courageous. Lebanese TV presenter Sahar Al-Khatib blasts the Opposition leaders whose armed allies in Hezbollah shut down her TV station....
Ted Baillieau’s witch-hunt is now officially absurd: Luke Dixon, a former adviser to Howard government MP Phil Barresi, who is now a policy adviser at...
Watch Four Corners‘ latest program, In My Shoes, and discover what we sure could spend some of that surplus on. I won’t forget the despair...
The ABC reports: Police in Alice Springs say they were appalled to find a driver put a seatbelt around a carton of beer - but...
Garth Montgomery watches Big Brother and discovers 10 reasons to think Corey Worthington isn’t a jerk, after all. I’m just about convinced.
There is a marvellous quality George Bush is rarely given credit for - not least because it is natural to him, and not something...
First, ladies, dye your hair: 62 of the world’s 100 richest men are married to brunettes, 22 to blondes, 16 to “raven-haired” women, and...
Bastards: Burma’s military regime has distributed international aid, plastering the boxes with names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the cyclone relief...
Barack Obama’s top foreign policy advisor doesn’t believe her candidate could be so stupid as to want no-precondition talks with Iran’s mad president. Which makes...
Time magazine suddenly goes all neo-con: That’s why it’s time to consider a more serious option: invading Burma. Some observers, including former USAID director Andrew...
This was the spin, bought by so many journalists: The Government is standing by its commitment to deliver the tax cuts promised during the election...
I suspect Premier John Brumby, a man impatient with the deep-sigh and big-hugs brigade, would be secretly relieved if the woman appointed by his successor...
Oh, please: WESTERN Bulldogs director Susan Alberti has launched a defamation case against Channel Nine and The Footy Show hosts Sam Newman and Garry Lyon....
I’ve never heard a leading candidate in my lifetime issue such a blatant appeal for the votes of one race. Or is she implicitly...
Say your stuff here. But nothing today on Islam or Israel. please. These discussions have got terribly boring.
No idea what his parents were thinking, but it’s a name to live up to or live down.
I think I’d like to see it work: TV historian Neil Oliver wants to resurrect the ‘manly man’ by telling tales of old-fashioned heroism......
Humiliating end to a stupid stunt: AUSTRALIA is likely to abandon its $1 million attempt to take Japan to the international court over whaling after...
Party, party, party: UNIONS have launched a direct challenge to the Rudd Government and the ACTU by pursuing wage claims of up to 19 per...
With that same tolerance of debate that produced the Ideas Summit love-in: BROADCASTER Alan Jones has been dumped from the powerful Australian Sports Commission in...
The world has not warmed in a decade. Moreover, there is little evidence that tropical cyclones have got worse. And any link between hurricanes and...
I WISH to report a robbery. Last December I started to get messages on my mobile phone - motivational ones of the kind I despise....
Of course it would: LABOR’S industrial relations changes are likely to trigger job losses and higher inflation that will ultimately create “wage-price spirals” and drive...
The marvellous Mariettalied from Das Tote Stadt, by Erich Korngold, who became one of the greatest of Hollywood composers. This is with Karan Armstrong...
It is astonishing that the BBC should think this commercial was a warning to viewers to pay their BBC TV licence fees, rather than a...
All the hapless WA Liberals achieved was to advertise that a chair-sniffer is the best they’ve got: WEST Australian Opposition Leader Troy Buswell has narrowly...
Support for Kevin Rudd has been high, but soft: According to the latest Newspoll survey, conducted exclusively for The Australian last weekend, primary support for...
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating wonders how union leaders fighting the privatisation of NSW’s power utilities can be so sure of their judgment when they’ve...
Jack the Insider discovers that the media style of this government isn’t much different from what Kerry-Anne Walsh first noticed: Rosslyn Beeby is the science...
Say it here. And thank you very much to all you readers for helping this site to set another record in April - 956,000 hits...
For months I’ve been getting junk text messages sent to my mobile phone - motivational sayings that I don’t need, don’t want and never asked...
Rowan Callick says a booming China will force us to consider how we best deal with this new superpower - but toadying isn’t the answer:...
The lovers meet. Jeannine Altmeyer as Sieglinde and Peter Hofmann as Siegmund sing Wintersturme and Du bist der Lenz from Wagner’s Siegfried. And here the...
There are only two things these particular Lesbians will gain - lawyers’ bills and a million jokes: Some residents on the Greek island of Lesvos...
He shall feed his flock, from Handel’s Messiah, sung by Marietta Simpson and Sylvia McNair. “Come unto him, all ye that labor and are heavy...
Mark Davis, Age political writer, eavesdrops at a restaurant: (O)ne of Dr Nelson’s frontbenchers, the South Australian MP Christopher Pyne, was holding forth on the...
I despise child bashers, but some things about these revelations seem confused: LINDSAY Tanner, the head of the federal Government’s razor gang charged with causing...
Even as a young man, Troy Buswell seemed destined for high office. That he should have become a Liberal leader of this prominence surprised...
Samantha Maiden: Kevin Rudd is today encouraging NSW Premier Morris Iemma to cut a deal with the unions that have held his leadership hostage over...
I’m a Michel Houellebecq fan, and his mother’s fury only confirms my prejudices: In a book of her own to be published next week, Lucie...
Thinking further on the Rudd Government’s strange decision to fight binge drinking by singling out alcopops for a huge tax increase… So how many alcopops...
Have your say here. Today’s banned topics: Israel and Islam.
How was my day yesterday, writing today’s columns? Oh, much as columnist Burt Lancaster’s, of course:
Exactly what barrel did they scrape this leader from? THE election hopes of the West Australian Liberals plummeted yesterday after new leader Troy Buswell refused...
I can understand the family’s fury: A family has taken its case to the Supreme Court after three brothers were allegedly derided with comments including...
Professor David Karoly says Phillip Chapman is wrong to make a fuss over a year of cooling to January: It is true that global data...
Have your say here. And if you are after some brainfood, book yourself a seat at this conference on the Northern Territory intervention. It should...
My sympathies are with the fallen soldier’s family: ONE Australian soldier has been killed and four others wounded in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan… Air...
Couldn’t agree more: Wesley Aird, a member of the now disbanded National Indigenous Council, said ... that to make any real gains, (Indigenous Affairs Minister...
I said last week I liked the Seekers for the memories they gave me of my boyhood in Darwin. But they also shook my trust...
Interesting accusation: Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has blamed the former Howard government for the rise in teenage binge drinking. By the same token, of...
Chinese students were mobilised to protect the Olympic torch in Japan, just as they were mobilised in Australia - by the Chinese Government: Heavy...
On the “Journey of Harmony” goes, in the longest PR disaster in the sporting history: Riot police, protesters and Chinese well-wishers converged on Nagano in...
The head of our Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has given China a pass on human rights and told the world not to be...
IF I hadn’t seen the circus with my own eyes, I’d think the $2 million we spent running a torch around Canberra yesterday was...
Perhaps the most beautiful hymn I know. And here it’s being played at Beaconsfield’s Anzac Day service.
To repeat a post from yesterday: It’s a remote possibility, but Natalie and Bruce are pleading for help to save their son Ryan (above),...
Some music just doesn’t survive its context of time and memory. For me, such a song - good as it may be - is the...
Hillary Clinton wins - but not enough to do anything but hurt Barack Obama, who has the Democrat nomination sewn up, on a delegate count...
I’m with the judge, especially after the recent Mick Gatto circus: A JUDGE has delivered a scathing attack on media coverage of the Melbourne gangland...
Melanie Reid: My real problem with the eco-alarmists is the pleasure they take in austerity; their evident desire to strip away pleasure… They dislike colour,...
Sounds like the premise of an art-house movie: A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hundreds of helium party balloons is missing in Brazil.
Makes complete sense to me: COALITION voters have compounded the pressure on Brendan Nelson by naming Peter Costello and Malcolm Turnbull as their favoured Liberal...
Larissa Dubecki, green believer and Age journalist (tautology, I know), is outraged: Premier John Brumby takes an official car two city blocks to sign a...
Fresh from the national ceremony of group worship of Cate Blanchett, comes more news of our galloping celebrityitis: VICTORIA Police are under fire for giving...
The great Janet Baker, of course. Not Josephine.
The greenshirts are growing daily more aggressive: LOCAL council bin police wearing head lamps are prowling neighbourhoods in the middle of the night to...
Classical Values asks: Why celebrate Earth Day on Lenin’s birthday, especially when the birthday of a visionary environmentalist is just two days earlier? Which “visionary...
Professor David Flint, of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy, points out in an email a stupidity in the summit’s proposal for a republic: The panel...
Canada’s human rights police are out of control, finding people guilty without hold a trial or even having jurisdiction: What are we to make of...
Multiculturalism produces less racism but more tension: Almost two-thirds of people in Britain fear race relations are so poor tensions are likely to spill over...
Protesters should ask themselves why they needed to hurt this woman to show their superior morality.
Tim Johnston reviews in the Australian Ben Kiernan’s Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur: It seems strange...
The finale of Bach’s St Matthew Passion: We sit here in tears, Oh Lord, and call to you in your grave- rest softly, softly...
The summit is screening on ABC2 and Sky News. Your impressions so far here. UPDATE Sam Mostyn, former Keating staffer, insurance PR flak and panel...
Gee, Barack Obama really isn’t very honest, is he? (Via Instapundit.)