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A plague of bad economists

by Peter Smith

June 18, 2013

How can it be that the dominant voices directing policy in Australia, the US and almost everywhere else do not grasp the difference between producing chocolate and eating it?

Roxon: Gone, unmourned and best forgotten

by Philippa Martyr

June 18, 2013

If you really need another example of what is wrong with today's Labor, look no further the departing figure of Nicola Roxon

Hollande feels the heat

by Andrew McIntyre

June 17, 2013

Even President Francois Hollande recognises that France's labour laws and reirement provisions need drastic reform. Unfortunately, the country's labor unions also know a weak reed when they see one

Sattlerism 101

by Bill Dawes

June 17, 2013

Calling all journalism professors. As you are not teaching balance, fairness, grammar, logic and impartial reporting these days, there should be plenty of time to ponder who is, and is not, a fit candidate for impertinent questions

Why spoil a good story?

June 17, 2013

Days after the charge that Mal Brough and Joe Hockey laughed themselves silly at a sexist menu item was refuted, that unseen bill of fare remains an article of faith at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

Chooks on the menu

by Roger Franklin

June 14, 2013

Just think, which is more than the national press corps seems capable of doing, only three more months of confected scandals and orchestrated distractions to go

Girls and women, heed the Gillard example

by Philippa Martyr

June 14, 2013

She owes her place to quotas and those union boys who opened the door to the Lodge and have not yet decided to evict her. There's a lesson there, but not one our gender-persecuted PM is ever likely to preach

The Rudd we've never known

by Philippa Martyr

June 13, 2013

A leading pundit sees in the ousted Labor leader the seeds of greatness. He must have confused him with another fair-haired and slightly less annoying Queenslander

The apes of wrath

by Bill Dawes

June 12, 2013

An 13-year-old barracker, unversed in the nuances of racial abuse, calls Swans star Adam Goodes an "ape", very nearly precipitates a nervous breakdown, and prompts a spate of lectures about "casual racism". In case you didn't know, that means bigotry from people who aren't bigots

Superwomen of the left

by Peter Smith

June 12, 2013

It should not be difficult to install strong Labor women in Parliament. Given the lacklustre likes of their male comrades, being a strong, capable and superior specimen is not a hard brief to master

'Oui' to gay marriage, but a big 'non' for restraint

by Andrew McIntyre

June 11, 2013

After turning a colder shoulder to Brussels' plea for austerity, France's Francois Hollande marked his return to statesmanship with a lusty cheer as Vincent took Bruno up the aisle

A loud and empty suit in the Chicago style

by Daryl McCann

June 10, 2013

His minions have unleashed the IRS against political enemies and elevated dissembling before congressional investigators to an art form. In the Middle East, it is all fuzzy nostrums and empty catchphrases. Just think, Obama has three more years yet to serve

Put no credence in the crackpot consensus

by Peter Smith

June 10, 2013

Whatever his other faults, none can fault Keynes for the durability of his misconceptions. The shared delusions of his followers in the Australian press testify to that

Saint Gough's unmentioned sin

by Christopher Carr

June 9, 2013

The ABC's two-part treatment of the Whitlam years went down well with the Great Gough's myth-peddlers and admirers, less so with those who recall his indecent betrayal of the Baltic nations swallowed by the Soviet union

Midnight in Altona

by Roger Franklin

June 7, 2013

In a lonely home in the electorate of Lalor, an abandoned woman broods, schemes and plans her further rejection of cold reality

Kafka, kids and the new breed of enforcers

by Steve Kates

June 5, 2013

It starts in kindergarten, the concerted campaign of authorisedf shunning and compulsory thought-corection, and its advocates won't to stop unless we rise to the challenge of ignoring them

Our once and future Queen

by Mark McGinness

June 4, 2013

Sixty years since her coronation, Elizabeth II continues to honour her pledge that she would serve her "whole life, whether it be long or short". Charles may yet have quite a while to cool his heels

A modern fairytale of debt-lead prosperity

by Alan Moran

June 4, 2013

It's a magic kingdom, this land of Keynesian logic, a place where ailing economies are sustained by ever more government spending. Trouble is, there can never be a happy ending

The comrade from the newsroom

by Tony Thomas

June 3, 2013

Things were different in the Australia of 50 years, as our ink-stained correspondent recalls in his memoir of unpaid dues and newsroom dissidence

The butcher, the block and Captain Underpants

May 31, 2013

The ABC's Mark Scott explains the business of being impartial before a Senate Estimates hearing. To help him out, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy contributes interruptions, inanitities and, at the best estimate, a half-measure of wit