Ken Phillips

Loophole Bill makes Pocock and Lambie the most powerful players in Parliament

17 January 2024 3:00 am

‘Blindsided’ is the best word for it. On December 7 last year in the Senate, two independents – Senator David…

Music and the well of human spirit

4 January 2024 2:00 am

Amongst the huge volume of online viewing options that dominate our televisions these days, occasionally there are gems that speak…

Albo’s dangerous Loophole Bill is struggling but far from dead

5 December 2023 4:30 am

The Albanese government’s attempt to revolutionise Australia through its industrial relations Loophole Bill is struggling. The government wanted to ram the Bill…

The Loophole Bill: 1.2 million self-employed Australians at risk

28 October 2023 3:18 pm

My recent Spectator Australia article, Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia, gave an overview of the Albanese government’s Industrial Relations Bill, also…

Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia

24 October 2023 4:00 am

With the Voice Referendum ‘done’, it’s now both possible and necessary to recognise and understand the broader ‘revolutionary’ agenda that…

Corporate Australia has a problem: the demise of the anti-communist unions

26 September 2023 4:00 am

The particular content and style of political boot-licking that is a feature of today’s Australian corporate environment can be understood…

Albanese’s fact-checkers and truth police

28 August 2023 5:00 am

The federal government’s proposed Misinformation and Disinformation Bill poses a serious threat to freedom of speech and expression in Australia. I’ve experienced…

Are work from home jobs a crisis or a revolution?

14 August 2023 6:00 am

The Work From Home (WFH) movement has created a ‘crisis’ in commercial office real estate. But it’s also doing the…

Albo’s government to appoint itself social media’s truth police

2 August 2023 4:45 am

Remember the media frenzy that tried to debunk the possibility that Covid came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology? The…

Robodebt scandal: Parliament needs to take charge of the bureaucracy

24 July 2023 4:00 am

It appears the Robodebt scandal is being used for gutter political point-scoring. But what’s new about that? Every side in…

Dangerous detail: how the Voice will select its 24 members

18 July 2023 4:00 am

Australians have been told that if we want to understand the Voice proposal we should read the 272-page Final Report…

Albo’s secret plot to destroy the Aussie tradie

3 July 2023 6:00 am

If you thought that housing was expensive, wait until the feral construction unions get their hands on the domestic housing…

To gig or not to gig. Is that the question?

14 June 2023 5:00 am

If you’ve ever been to a pub gig, you’ll have taken part in what the Albanese government wants to (effectively)…

The next phase of Chalmers’ ‘better capitalism’ is scary

25 May 2023 4:00 am

In January 2023, Treasurer Jim Chalmers released a major policy ‘think piece’ where he detailed his and (presumably Labor’s) vision…

China’s Mafia capitalism – the Marxist challenge

29 April 2023 2:43 pm

Here’s a challenge for Australian Marxists. It can be assessed that the ‘success’ of the Chinese Communist Party is, in…

‘No compromise!’ Marxist solidarity in 2023

16 April 2023 7:15 am

This is a follow-up article to my Spectator Australia report last week on Marxism Conference 2023, the Australian Marxists’ three-day Easter shindig at…

Reporting from the Marxist front line

10 April 2023 6:00 am

This Easter, Australian Marxists are conducting their big shindig, Marxism Conference 2023, at Melbourne University. I’m attending. It’s important to understand what…

Trashing the right to be commercial

4 April 2023 6:00 am

For a long time, Australian unions, labour academics, and their political fellow travellers have sought to cut away at the…

Trucking billionaires

20 February 2023 4:00 am

Federal Labor is set to bolster the businesses of trucking billionaires and corporations. Unsurprisingly, the billionaires are more than happy…

The Australian socialist experiment: quasi-nationalisation and re-purposing of free-markets

6 February 2023 5:00 am

This is the third of three articles examining the new Australian socialist experiment that is now well underway. The first…

The Australian socialist experiment: the labour market revolution

2 February 2023 5:30 am

This is the second of three articles examining the Australian socialist experiment now well underway. This first article provided an…

The Australian socialist experiment: capturing capitalism

30 January 2023 5:00 am

A sweeping new Australian socialist experiment is well underway. The signs are everywhere. But it’s unique… This is socialism with…

What if Daniel Andrews loses his seat?

11 November 2022 4:00 am

Could Premier Dan Andrews lose his seat at the Victorian state election on November 26? This is a serious, surprise…

IR madness: Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill

3 November 2022 2:00 pm

Industrial relations lawyers in Australia each need to immediately buy themselves a new Porsche. Labor’s new Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill is…

Albanese’s secret shock for the self-employed

10 October 2022 10:00 am

This is how Labor will make sure that you are paid less for the same work