Christian Kerr
As you’ll have seen from Rowan Dean’s announcement yesterday, our hitherto anonymous online editor, Christian Kerr, custodian of Flat White,…
Tim Smith did the right thing – eventually
It’s rare for a state politician to get a national profile when most Australians don’t have a clue who their…
Don’t pity those cheese-eating surrender monkeys, the French
Witnessing the melodramatic outpouring of Gallic histrionics at Australia’s surprise but masterstroke decision to ditch the overblown, over-budget and already…
We are all losers from the Christian Porter affair
Yesterday, embattled Christian Porter resigned from the Morrison cabinet, as he could not prove there is no conflict of interest…
Does AUKUS show there’s still life in the Morrison government?
Yesterday’s surprise announcement of AUKUS – the new Australia-United Kingdom-United States security partnership – is huge news. Not only is…
Kiwis want elimination, and nothing but elimination
Yesterday, the New Zealand Herald published the findings of an opinion poll it commissioned as a wave of the Delta…
Daniel Andrews, democracy is an essential service
The Commonwealth parliament is sitting this week. The Victorian parliament is supposed to be. Except it isn’t. On the advice…
Zero-Covid is wishful thinking if Australia wants to rejoin the world
As former Australian foreign minister and High Commissioner to the UK Alexander Downer wrote in last week’s magazine, almost all…
The PM and the Coalition's polling paradox
Today’s Newspoll is ugly for the Coalition, throwing their primary vote and two-party preferred deficit back into late Malcolm Turnbull…
Let’s be more up-front and honest with the daily Covid numbers
According to the federal Department of Health website, yesterday there were 10,956 active cases of Covid-19 across Australia. Of these,…
Afghanistan’s fall — and our disgrace
If you go into someone else’s house and trash it, you have a moral as well as a legal obligation…
Newspoll: Governments usually win one election more than they deserve. Was 2019 one of them?
Today’s Newspoll is dire for the Prime Minister. The two-party preferred split of 53:47 is bad enough but can be…
A judge has found the National Cabinet isn’t a cabinet, so let’s put it out of its misery
Senator Rex Patrick is your typical independent Senate crossbench ambulance chaser. Having been carried into parliament on the long-receded Nick…
Ivermectin and the doctor-patient relationship
At the outset, let’s make one thing clear. I do not share the absolute conviction of some who advocate the…
How Australia was caught in lockdown limbo
Sajid Javid’s deleted weekend tweet about Britain ‘learning to live with, rather than cower from Covid’ upset just about everyone…
Bezos’s bell-end: a postscript
When he was back on the ground after his – ahem – epic space flight of all of ten minutes, Amazon founder Jeff…
God botherers shouldn’t bother Mark McGowan
According to the proposed changes to the National Curriculum, Christianity is being expunged from what it is to be Australian.…
We’ve already got Danandrewstan. The nation can’t afford Gladystopia
These are testing times for New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian. This latest Covid outbreak is the biggest since the…
Dominic Perrottet stakes his leadership claim
Cabinet solidarity stops him from saying so publicly, but owlish-looking New South Wales Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, has set his stall…
NAIDOC Woke
It’s NAIDOC Week. Aboriginal elites, corporate virtue-signallers and politicians, cheered on by the media but especially the ABC and SBS, will…
Six steps ScoMo must make to take control of the Covid agenda
Australia’s current WuFlu situation is not dire in world terms, yet from the reactions of federal, state and territory governments,…
Time for a sports revolution: let’s have Gender of Origin
The SpecOz has already registered disgust at New Zealand male-born Laurel – formerly Gavin – Hubbard’s selection in the Kiwi…
Mark Vaile and the new coal-black blacklist
This week has proved the National Party leadership is a poisoned chalice, even when someone hasn’t been leader for years.…
Is Joyce the right choice?
Having snapped at Nationals leader Michael McCormack’s heels for the best part of two years, forcibly deposed leader Barnaby Joyce…
Operation weakened borders
As Tony Abbott’s immigration minister, Scott Morrison had one job: stop the boats. Stop the boats he did. He made…
