The empty moral posturing of attacks on vaccine hesitants
Covid has turned our civilised principles upside down
Why can’t Canberra be more like Florida?
On Monday 4 October, after 245 days, Melbourne claimed the decidedly unwelcome record of the longest locked-down city in the world. On…
Ten surreal days in September
Scott Morrison is completely out of touch with his own country
Voldermectin
The drug that must not be named
Coronavirus has become endemic, making Australia’s policy settings obsolete
A major study from the National Bureau of Economic Research in June, based on all-causes mortality data from 44 countries and all US…
White privilege as the face of modern Labor
Tu Le should have been picked, not KK
The global media calls out Australia’s repressive Covid order
For students of democracy and foreign policy, Australia has been experiencing interesting times in the last two years. All countries devote enormous effort and considerable resources to…
Deer in the headlights, frogs in boiling water
Covid is stripping us of our freedoms. Who will stop it?
Lockdowns: an alibi for government to shun scrutiny of neglect of public health preparedness
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ monthly update on mortality has the eye-catching statistic that in every single week from 1…
Saigon… Kabul… Taiwan?
America’s reputation is falling faster than the bodies dropping from the under-carriages
The latest lessons in Covid management from Israel
Will no one rid us of our Covid-dementors? Gladys Berejiklian says restrictions could remain in place after 80 per cent full vaccination. Yet…
Covid in the age of unreason
Those who voted down Christensen may well come to regret it
There’s ‘literally a war’ – but in Kabul, not Sydney
At her daily press briefing on Saturday, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said: ‘This is literally a war, and…
Vaccination certificates: an idea whose time must never come
Chris Richardson of Deloitte Access Economics wrote in the Australian Financial Review on 10 August: ‘Delta is so infectious that the vaccination rates we…
All deaths are equal, but some are more equal than others – part two
The conclusion to a two-piece article. About 10.1mn people are estimated to have died from all causes in India in 2020, and…
All deaths are equal, but some are more equal than others
Part one of a two-piece article. From the start, those sceptical of lockdowns for managing the coronavirus pandemic have offered three complementary…
The right to cheat
How ‘progressives’ don’t hesitate to bend the rules
The fading case for vaccine passports
Last week, Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said the current surge in NSW infections is due to the Delta variant,…
Is the vaccination emperor as naked as his lockdown cousin?
In my article in The Spectator Australia on Tuesday on discrepancies between models that predicted a reduction and data that showed a surge…
Covid: governments have ditched data for glamorous models
On Saturday, The Guardian reported that ‘The final decision about 19 July [Britain’s “Freedom Day”] will be taken on Monday morning, based…
Don’t sacrifice children to the Covid gods
The pushing of vaccines onto the young is obscene
‘We are the government and we are here to help’
Why I won’t be taking the vaccine any time soon
Like the mighty Murray, Covid public policy insanity never runs dry
Here we go again. Let us sip once again, dear fellow citizens, from the bottomless well of public policy insanity…
Human rights, civil liberties
Four words that became four-letter words
Vaccine efficacy vs harms
Last week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration announced Australia’s second death likely caused by blood clotting from the AstraZeneca vaccine. This took the total reports of cases of…
