To stay or go?
Senator Lucy Gichuhi’s decision to sit with the Liberal Party is a small but important step militating against the fragmentation…
Australian letters
Onward Christian soldiers? Sir: Hal Colebatch contemplates the revival of the religious military orders to protect Christianity from the attacks…
Shorten’s integrity trick
Now that same-sex marriage is out of the way, the banking royal commission hastily agreed to, and the Australia Day…
Mr Abbott’s agenda
The once and possibly future Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, this week started 2018 strongly. Writing for the Australian and speaking…
Australian letters
Dark ages revisited? Sir: The latest, frenzied, hysterical and vitriolic attack on President Trump by the media, over his “alleged”…
Save Australia Day
There is only one way for Australians to show their contempt for the stifling political correctness and bullying left-wing activism…
Australian letters
Twelve bad men Sir: In his article ‘Guilty’, it appears that the cases quoted by Andrew Urban were heard by…
Trial by #metoo media
The Golden Globe awards have come and gone, with Hollywood emblackening itself and making self-righteous declarations against sexual harassment and…
True friend?
Exactly a year ago on this page and on our cover we denounced the Obama administration-sponsored United Nations Security Council…
Season of goodwill
Australians deserve a long, hot, glorious summer of beaches and barbies and to indulge themselves in a joyous Christmas break…
Two-faced on Israel
Australia has stood against the more rotten and anti-Semitic resolutions of the United Nations. Now, however, it has distinguished itself…
Queensland was about you, Malcolm
The Queensland election has come and gone. While votes are still being counted, it’s clear premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her…
Australian letters
Government by hysteria Sir: In the world where science and politics interact, we see the dismissal of science at the…
Good government ‘canceled’
The decision to cancel this coming week’s sitting of parliament is typical of the entire Turnbull Political Methodology: obfuscate, prevaricate,…
Yessssssss
The devil is in the detail. And the snakes are in the grass. This week’s cover by Sarah Dudley and…
New Year’s election?
What a mess; and, for once, it didn’t start with Malcolm Turnbull. The citizenship fiasco is a consequence of the…
Julie? No thanks
There is now a real prospect that Julie Bishop will become our next Prime Minister. Alas, such an outcome would…
Age of Endarkenment
All around us, we are seeing the cultural lights of Western civilisation flickering, if not being dimmed or even switched…
Just another hoax
Two out of three ain’t bad. Or so we are supposed to believe. So let’s start by accepting that the…
Goats, volcanoes and Turnbull
‘Contrary to the breathless assertions that climate change is behind every weather event, in Australia, the floods are not bigger,…
Grateful, not dead
As is the case after every horrific mass shooting in the United States, Australians not directly affected by the events…
Australian letters
More please Sir: What a great pleasure it was for me as a hybrid New Zealand / Australian to read…
Absolutely nothing
Once more we are being asked to believe the unbelievable. Once again the usual suspects in the media and politics…
Happy New Year
As with the Chinese New Year, Ramadan, and other festive occasions on our multicultural calendar, the ten-day period from Rosh…
Australian letters
Spreading the word Sir: Yesterday, I left my copy of last week’s Speccie behind at the optometrist after an appointment.…