David Long

Educating our educators on the Enlightenment

10 April 2024 3:00 am

To be a Western man means to be part of the continuing debate between Jerusalem and Athens

No one knows what Albanese’s Voice will look like, or what powers it might have

9 April 2023 5:00 am

It seems, if the polls are to be believed, that the majority of Australians in a majority of states will…

Defining tyranny: will the Voice end democracy?

9 March 2023 5:03 pm

What is a tyranny? You probably know that China is a tyranny, even if the experts prefer the term totalitarian. Social…

Holding parents responsible for youth crime

21 February 2023 5:00 am

Violent youth crime in this nation seems to be on the increase. Recent television footage of children running amok in…

The Canberra ‘Voice’

5 February 2023 5:00 am

You have probably read that the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is expected to provide an opportunity for an elected assembly…

Are we headed toward the death of reason?

5 January 2023 11:00 am

In one important way, the death of Pope Benedict last week was the death of reason in an increasingly secular…

In search of common sense

2 January 2023 10:00 am

I am sure that, like me, you have not only used the term ‘common sense’ yourselves, but have heard many…

Cop27: turning climate into an economic weapon

19 November 2022 12:42 pm

Before our leaders get carried away with the Cairo Climate Conference 2022 and start imposing economic losses on those (me…

No unity under a political president

25 September 2022 5:00 am

For everyone who supports the idea of retaining the monarchy in Australia’s Constitution, there is one very important question that…

Thatcher failed to protect Hong Kong

17 September 2022 4:19 pm

Many conservatives, and all conservative politicians, worship the hallowed ground on which the late Margaret Thatcher walked. A visit to…

Activists misplace their anger

13 September 2022 2:18 pm

By now, we have all heard that university professor Uju Anya did not like Queen Elizabeth II and regarded her…

Crushing Truth Social in its crib

1 September 2022 2:00 pm

As I write this article, the following lead paragraph is circulating on the only conservative online media platform in America: The…

Howard still prefers Bush to Trump

20 August 2022 6:00 am

If you have read The Australian recently, you would have discovered that ex-Prime Minister John Howard does not like Donald Trump. Reading…

Sovereignty is a colonising concept

15 August 2022 12:00 pm

Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe entered the Parliament’s Senate chamber with a black power salute and proceeded to disrespect the oath…

Trump's 'Fox ban' wishful thinking by Democrats

5 August 2022 1:50 pm

In the most outrageous piece of transference bias, the left-liberal New York Times reported that Fox News had not invited Donald…

Albanese copies Ardern, seeking to enshrine race in politics

1 August 2022 10:00 am

At first, I was a surprised that it took our new Prime Minister little more than two months since his…

Salvation in theology for Australia’s declining churches?

10 July 2022 8:00 am

The lunatic left will rejoice at the results of a recent American Gallup Poll which revealed that belief in God…

Due process, domestic violence, and Roe

3 July 2022 7:00 am

Already, there has been a lot of ink spilt on opinions about the US Supreme Court decision of Justice Alito…

A different take on Reserve Powers

24 June 2022 4:00 am

Although Peter O’Brien’s recent Spectator Australia article defending Sir John Kerr’s dismissal of the Whitlam government was essentially directed at the…

Responsible government and the monarchy

12 June 2022 8:00 am

Given the speed with which Anthony Albanese attacked both the Australian Constitution and the Monarchy after the Australian election, you…

Menzies’ middle class needs some help

5 June 2022 6:00 am

Spectator Australia contributor, James Allan, recently made a couple of very important observations about the Liberal Party. First, he showed…

Enshrining race in the political system

30 May 2022 1:00 pm

Can anyone look objectively at the past two and a half years and wonder if the government of this nation…

Progressive or conservative? Αsk Deves

23 May 2022 4:30 am

O me miserum; mea culpa! and other Latin phrases of a similar kind. The worst federal government in many years…

The Senate gold mine

20 May 2022 9:00 am

Is there such a thing as right and wrong? Well of course there is, and the fact that many university…

Will the ripples from Roe v. Wade reach Australia?

13 May 2022 1:30 pm

An American journalist, Caroline Reilly, re-tweeted a New York Times report of the firebombing of a Wisconsin anti-abortion headquarters, together with…