Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons
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Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.

"It's one rule for those on the conservative side and another rule for socialists": Former speaker Bronwyn Bishop.

Bronwyn Bishop, where do you get off with rants like that?

COMMENT

I've always had a curious and oft troubling affection for Bronwyn Bishop, but goodness she strains it sometimes.

Tony Abbott can't admire Brexit in Britain and yet remain a monarchist in Australia ... can he?

Abbott tied in knots over Brexit and the monarchy

COMMENT

This week, my friend Tony Abbott – who I have been arguing with, on the subject of the Australian republic, for two decades – spoke in Britain on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the establishment of the Conservative think tank The Bow Group.

Pauline Hanson declared the preference deal with the Liberal was a mistake.

Is this the 'sophisticated' One Nation we see in WA? I don't think so

COMMENT

How goes that line of yours, Arthur Sinodinos, that One Nation has "evolved "and is "a lot more sophisticated now"?

US President Donald Trump: an admirer of our immigration policy.

We lap up anything Trump says about us. How cringe-worthy

COMMENT

What a breakthrough! Australia has finally been mentioned in a speech to Congress by US President Donald Trump.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott appears to be missing the point on climate change and the use of renewable energy.

What Abbott doesn't understand about renewable energy

COMMENT

"In short," my friend Tony Abbott said this week, as he lined up Malcolm Turnbull for the umpteenth time, "why not say to the people of Australia: we'll cut the [Renewable Energy Target] to help with your power bills?"

Cop it sweet, Australia needs a sugar tax

COMMENT

The case for a sugar tax is very straightforward.

Peter Fitzsimons, pictured at his home in Cremorne, says his father advised him to learn from the lives of other men.

There's a correct response to hearing fake news

COMMENT

No names, no pack drill, and let's not even name the radio station concerned. Let's just call him "Michael McLaren, midnight to dawn on 2GB". Mate, when you get a call like you did the other night from "Jim", and he says everyone knows that climate change is a nonsense because the climate changes all the time and the "last ice age only finished in the 1850s", did you, ummmm, you know, feel NO OBLIGATION to correct him?