The return of the prodigal voter?
[photopress:Clive_Hamilton.jpg,full,pp_empty]The left got into trouble when it lost its ethical moorings, said Tony Blair. Influenced by the Christian socialism of John Macmurray, Blair saw New...
The Mad Mufti
Left and right are both calling for the manic Sheik Al Hilali to be deported from these fair lands. The left take offence at his...
Margaret Simons on Jonestown
Great piece by Margaret in today's Crikey. Last Tuesday Crikey published an editorial criticising Chris Masters's Jonestown for the way in which it "outed" Alan...
A story, an anniversary and a moral
In early 1996 my father Fred fell from his motorbike on the farm and cracked a rib. He had blood in his urine, which the...
Unlawful killing
What would you call a situation in which a man . . . [P]unched his wife in the face and she fell to the ground....
Kevin Rudd’s Fatal Conceit
Why Rudd is wrong about Hayek Friedrich Hayek argued that human beings are "almost exclusively self-regarding", says Kevin Rudd. In contrast, modern Labor "argues that...