David Martin Jones 
A new Malaysia
Detained last weekend at Malaysia’s low-cost carrier terminal outside Kuala Lumpur, independent Senator Nick Xenophon confessed to being ‘gobsmacked’ at his treatment by Malaysian authorities. Keen not to offend Asian… Read more
Orwell’s daughters
The Labor party gynocrats currently playing the Misogyny Monologues in Canberra to an admiring media audience both locally and globally are a political extension of the self-referential and self-regarding feminism… Read more
Democratic malaise
It’s time to address our relationship with Malaysia In 1971, Australia and the recently decolonised Malaysian government enjoyed, as Peter Boyce observed ,‘something akin to a special relationship’. That relationship… Read more
Memo from Machiavelli
In The Spectator Australia’s 18 February edition, Mark Latham observed that ‘in the modern Labor party, no one serves revenge cold. It is consumed… straight off the hot plate.’ Recent… Read more
Old South Wales socialism made Gillard who she is
The cultural influence of her birthplace pervades the PM’s political outlook and personal style, says David Martin Jones Australia’s 27th prime minister is not only the first female holder of… Read more
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