A collection of 95 posts
The murder of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby by repeat offender Jefferson Lewis has exposed the failures of Australia’s criminal justice system and Indigenous child protection policy. What will it take to make change?
The Bondi massacre is a warning that Australia’s failure to demand integration from recent immigrants may be leading it down a dark path. Israel shows that multiculturalism can work, but only in a nation with a strong sense of identity.
The case of Bao Phuc Cao—released without a conviction after secretly filming over 100 women in public toilets—reveals that Melbourne’s judiciary is drastically out of step with the public understanding of the purpose of criminal justice.
Nick Cave’s beautiful and tragic music brings redemptive catharsis to a grief-stricken city.
Politicians reach for “our way of life” to justify immigration restrictions—but the phrase may be too vague to bear that weight.
When an anti-Zionist worldview collides with the principle of “believe all women,” it is the principle that gives way.
Australia has long been considered politically stable compared with Europe and the United States. But according to political scientist Eric Kaufmann, that period of “Australian exceptionalism” may be coming to an end.
Tasmania looks like wilderness from afar. Up close, it is lush, intimate, and unexpectedly generous—a place that feels familiar, yet entirely its own.
Australia’s under-16s social media ban has proven wildly popular among parents, but nevertheless it was ill conceived and comes with worrying trade-offs.
Tony Abbott argues that Australia’s history provides a lot to be proud of.
The convicts and soldiers who arrived in January 1788 had not just traversed a vast distance across the oceans; they had effectively journeyed back in time.
The Australian identity 125 years after Federation.
An Australia Day reflection on the founding of a ‘free land.’
What the Adelaide Writers’ Week fiasco reveals about the moral economy of cultural elites.
Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty.