Miranda Devine
Miranda Devine is a journalist and opinion writer with The Sydney Morning Herald. She has been a reporter for the Boston Herald (USA) and an assistant editor and police reporter for The Daily Telegraph.
Ghouls shower Bingle with scorn
Miranda Devine Three weeks ago, Sydney's latest whipping girl, Lara Bingle, updated her busy Twitter account with a prophetic message to the 10,000 people signed on to receive her tweets.
A salute to brave soldiers in a nerve-racking theatre of war
Miranda Devine The director of The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, delivered the best moments of one of the best Academy Awards this week with her double Oscar win.
Who's who in the hubris rankings
Miranda Devine With John Howard popping up in his new role as International Cricket Council vice-president, after virtually a 2.
It's time for the old grey mayor
Miranda Devine To fulfil Kevin Rudd's ''big Australia" promise of 60 per cent population growth by 2050, Sydney will bear the brunt of the expansion, almost doubling in size to 7 million people.
Like a pink batt out of hell, Garrett absorbs the heat
Miranda Devine The security scanners at Parliament House, through which all visitors must pass, are emblazoned with the same name as the embattled Environment Minister: ''Garrett'' they say, in bright yellow.
Going batty over blah-blah
Miranda Devine Cynics might think the Prime Minister was trying to divert attention from his beleaguered Environment Minister by calling a press conference on terrorism yesterday morning, just as the opposition was...
No romantic ending likely for the Julia and Tony show
Miranda Devine On the way to the National Press Club where Julia Gillard was talking yesterday, it was hard to miss her alter ego, Tony Abbott, holding a large press conference with protesting insulation installers...
It was a week for bodgie batts, busy bees and bogong moths
Miranda Devine Since the Prime Minister decided personally to shoulder ''full responsibility'' for the bungled home insulation program, his assiduous attention to detail has known no bounds.
The warning that we ignored
Miranda Devine The latest headache for NSW prison authorities is how to safely house the five terrorists convicted this month of plotting bomb attacks in Sydney.
Trust savvy gen Y to smell a rat
Miranda Devine Two funny things happened this week - the Prime Minister was punked on ABC TV's Q&A program by 400 sharp-tongued gen Ys who looked as if they had "cynic" stamped on their foreheads.
Spin and silver tongues can't hide an empty morality
Miranda Devine Attempts by the Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, to brazen out the burning batts fiasco is symptomatic of the malaise afflicting the Rudd government this election year.
Fire prevention a burning issue
Miranda Devine A year after the Black Saturday inferno, which killed 173 people, Victoria's bushfire royal commission is at last reaching the pointy end of its inquiry - the politically charged topic of prescribed...
Small targets and no bold vision
Miranda Devine The people of NSW are rightly angry at being saddled for 15 years with an increasingly shambolic state government which, despite the likeable new face of the Premier, Kristina Keneally, still manages...
Climate alarmists out in the cold
Miranda Devine As the wheels keep falling off the climate alarmist bandwagon, it's suddenly become fashionable to be a sceptic. Out of the woodwork have crawled all sorts of fair-weather friends.
Give good teachers a gold star and put the bad ones out to pasture
Miranda Devine Behind the furore over school league tables, the criticism of standardised testing, the self-interested screaming of neanderthal teachers' unions and the remarkable steel in Julia Gillard's spine, is...
Apology
Miranda Devine Saturday's opinion article by Miranda Devine, "Scapegoat insanity for our navy", described the current inquest into deaths resulting from an explosion at Ashmore Reef as a "witch-hunt".
Climategate gives lord of the sceptics plenty of ammunition
Miranda Devine The visit to Australia this week of Lord Christopher Monckton - the world's most effective global warming sceptic - couldn't have been better timed.
By George, this blight has to stop, for Sydney's sake
Miranda Devine One thing on which Sydneysiders can agree is that the increasingly squalid bits of our city are signs of urban blight that is spreading before our eyes.
Movie confronts last frontier of feminism
Miranda Devine Women are lucky to have Meryl Streep on the silver screen. It's not that there aren't great-looking, vibrant, sexy 60-year-old women around us in real life.
It's time we listened to the doctors
Miranda Devine Over the past 18 months I have spent an inordinate amount of time in public hospitals in NSW, not as a patient but as a witness to the ordeals of family members.
