Mark Burgess

In defence of offensive humour: four key reasons

20 November 2023 1:46 am

What would you rather… An environment in which you feel free to speak your mind and engage in light-hearted banter,…

A race-based tax is utterly unjust

21 February 2023 4:30 am

Last month, former Victorian Greens (now Independent) Senator Lidia Thorpe, ‘reiterated the call for Australian property owners to pay a weekly…

Religion as a political football

24 December 2022 7:00 am

It’s no secret that many on the progressive Left despise Judeo-Christian faiths and their legacy on Western Civilisation. Their pro-Islam…

Vale Niamh Finneran Loader

5 December 2022 7:10 am

It is with a heavy heart that I deliver the news that a fellow contributor to The Spectator Australia, Niamh Finneran…

Gender quotas are never the solution

28 November 2022 8:00 am

‘To be judged on the content of our character and not the colour of our skin’ – that was one of…

The cult of Daniel Andrews

17 November 2022 4:40 pm

Peta Credlin’s documentary, The Cult of Daniel Andrews, is a must-watch and does an excellent job in three respects. First, it…

Four reasons to scrap ‘diversity and inclusion’

15 November 2022 4:00 am

Esteemed American psychologist Jonathon Haidt recently made headlines having resigned from his major professional association. He did so out of frustration that ‘everybody…

Is Ratnam living on another planet?

12 November 2022 2:10 pm

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read the following words from Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam,…

$15 million: the debt-trap of empty virtue signalling

3 November 2022 11:20 am

Many Victorians are incensed by the news that Daniel Andrews has decided to spend Victorian taxpayer money to fill the $15…

Locking up the world’s most liveable city

31 October 2022 10:00 am

Victorian’s considering voting for a Labor government in next state election need to wake up and consider how the last…

FitzSimons and Price won’t see eye to eye

28 September 2022 4:00 am

Public discourse is under threat, and ironically, the progressive cause is to blame.  This was exemplified by the recent spat…

Paying for the pandemic welfare state

22 August 2022 10:00 am

We need to stop looking to the government to resolve all of our problems – especially since many of our…