A shiver might have gone down Joe Hockey’s spine when he read a report that some colleagues were angry he’d missed Monday’s meeting of cabinet’s expenditure review committee.

It wasn’t Hockey’s fault - bad weather had...

We are used to thinking of Gaza as a war-torn stretch of ground. A place where life goes grimly on in the face of an intractable conflict. A graveyard not only for civilians caught in the crossfire, but also as a necropolis for peace.

Lying among the ravages of this modern conflict are more than 250 Australians. In a well-maintained Commonwealth...

There are very few things that keep me awake at night, these days.

I manage to sleep even with the growing burden of obesity around us and the nonsensical insistence in our societal and political rhetoric that despite two-thirds of us being now affected in Australia (combined with overweightedness), it is still pushed as a problem born in...