Dean Bertram 
A dangerous idea
On the weekend of 28-30 September, the Festival of Dangerous ideas returns to Sydney. Last year, in these pages, I lampooned the event as ‘The Festival Of Well-Worn Lefty Ideas… Read more
Wild life Australia – 7 July 2012
Cancer is a bitch. It isn’t the stuck-up kind who turned you down in high school. Neither is it the hot variety who ignores you in a night club. Nor… Read more
Fear and loathing on the shooting trail
Australia has an unhealthy relationship with guns. Leftist pundits would normally level this criticism against the US, where the right to keep and bear arms is constitutionally guaranteed. But it… Read more
Katter to the rescue
I can’t help but like Bob Katter. When Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor sold their souls — and sold out their conservative electorates — in a despicable deal that delivered… Read more
A hazardous occupation
The usual gaggle of leftard activists descended on Martin Place last Saturday for Occupy Sydney: the Communist Party of Australia, Socialist Alliance, the Socialist Equality Party, radical unionists, pro-Palestine types,… Read more
Let it be known: I stand with Israel
When the Kutusha missiles start falling on your neighbourhood, it’s time to get the hell out of Dodge. That’s what my brother and his wife did in July of 2006,… Read more
Wild life: No Cannes do
The most erotic vision of my life played out before me last month, sur la plage at Cannes. It still loops in my memory like the slow-motion sequence from a… Read more
Wild life Night of the scorpion
‘Shots at the bar!’ The shout erupted from behind me. ‘Shots at the bar!’ The shout erupted from behind me. It was the familiar battle cry of a well-known Sydney… Read more
The things I do to get to Cannes
‘Can I see your boarding pass?’ I was at Heathrow airport, on a sanity- threatening nine-hour layover between Hong Kong and Nice. ‘Can I see your boarding pass?’ I was… Read more
On bouncers, death and drinking
‘Time gentlemen, please. Time!’ The announcement from behind the bar reminded my drinking comrade and I that it was almost the end of the night. It had been a good… Read more
Liberty stripped, groped, irradiated and deceived
In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, Lady Liberty is taking the type of savage beating that was once reserved for rented mules and redheaded… Read more
Stand up for gay zombies
It sounds like the pitch for a postmodern Keystone Kops farce, if not for its frightening implications: Victorian police descend on the home of an Australian film festival director in… Read more
Trouble brewing
Australia needs the Tea Party movement as much as the US does — but we should expect the same sneering response Every minute you’re at work, you’re paying tax. Commuting… Read more
Crocodile Dundee takes on the ATO
There are appropriate ways to treat Australia’s national treasures: wonders of the natural world are placed under the protection of the Parks and Wildlife Service; heritage sites are guarded by… Read more
It’s easy being green
Dean Bertram argues that a pervasive culture of ‘green chicness’ is responsible for the Greens’ electoral success Green smart. Green friendly. Green choice. Green alternative. Green lifestyle. Green energy. Green… Read more
Don’t be fooled: her hair’s not the only red thing about Julia Gillard
If Labor and the press won’t deal with leftist extremism, it’s up to the rest of us, says Dean Bertram What should be the most controversial story of Election 2010… Read more
Hooray for Hollywood
How refreshing that Russell Crowe recently voiced support of the monarchy in an interview for the UK’s Sun newspaper. Crowe, who as a rule usually refuses to talk politics in… Read more
Facebook is not guilty of murder, but it is evidence of a degraded society
Blaming Facebook for last week’s murder of Sydney woman Nona Belomesoff is like blaming a deserted stretch of outback highway for the murder of Peter Falconio. It is a retarded… Read more
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