Fringe parties,white supremacists and other grifters are mining the paranoia of our times

Fringe parties,white supremacists and other grifters are mining the paranoia of our times

The pandemic has ruptured Australian society and made it ripe for political exploitation.

  • byMartin McKenzie-Murray

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Reflections on a ghastly year:Trump's final days are even weirder than Nixon's
Opinion
New Year

Reflections on a ghastly year:Trump's final days are even weirder than Nixon's

If I lost my mind,at least I wasn’t in public office. Donald Trump didn’t handle 2020 too well either.

  • byMartin McKenzie-Murray
There's no more wizardry in our leaders'words and Australia's poorer for it

There's no more wizardry in our leaders'words and Australia's poorer for it

Great speeches are derived from a courageous and well-defined ambition. If you have none for our country,the speeches will reflect that.

  • byMartin McKenzie-Murray
Spare us the Twitter zealots and their pious left censorship
Opinion
Twitter

Spare us the Twitter zealots and their pious left censorship

Imagine a woke society perfectly liberated from aggravation. It’s a vision of a giant creche,in which literature becomes dogma and comedy prefers applause to laughter.

  • byMartin McKenzie-Murray
I vainly believed I had the fortitude to report on child abuse,but there was always my own case

I vainly believed I had the fortitude to report on child abuse,but there was always my own case

That I’ve been following the sex-crimes trial of Harvey Weinstein in the past week with one eye shut is a sign of my new cautiousness.

  • byMartin McKenzie-Murray