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Against the grain
‘My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views.’…
HCQ? You read it here first
In the wee small hours before the dawn of the Independence Day holiday weekend, presumably when it hoped no one…
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Could the wheels finally be coming off the greatest hoax of the last fifty years? Is it too much to…
Ditch Paris
It was announced last week that the Minerals Council of Australia has ‘committed to cutting carbon emissions’ and has ‘thrown…
Yay!
‘The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds,’ read the headline…
Double delusions
In a week of absolute madness, it’s hard to know which is the more deranged fantasy: that we can do…
Where’s wisdom gone?
At what point did the West, including Australia, abandon common sense and reason in favour of decision-making worthy of the…
Coalition’s slow boat
‘That is my job, to bring everybody together,’ explained Scott Morrison to the Canberra Press Bubble who were anything but…
Unbreakable
It was only nine months ago, but it seems a world away. On 4 August, 2019, on a mild winter’s…
Coughing fit
Well might the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg choke on his words in parliament when detailing the horrendous debt currently being imposed…
Get back to where we once belonged
‘Want to go to the footy? Download the app.’ tweeted Health Minister Greg Hunt on 2 May, speaking to Australians…
It’s the economy, covid!
Perhaps more than any other magazine, The Spectator Australia was horrified by the Turnbull coup. The real one, that is,…
We are not Anzacs in this crisis
One hundred and five years ago today, our boys stormed the barren shores of Anzac Cove. For all the Victoria…
Kangaroo court
In his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King wrote: ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’ This has…
Wheels fall off Pell’s tumbril
As in a bombardment on a strategically crucial target, all the big guns were firing. And great was the rejoicing…
Go in hard, get out fast
It remains to be seen whether the actions taken by the Morrison government in the last two weeks will have…
Recalibrate Australia
All pay rises for public servants to be frozen until after the pandemic is over! Shock horror! Hospitality industry unions…
Apoxalypse now
Last week we asked whether Scott Morrison and the Australian medical authorities would learn the lessons of Italy and impose…
Coronavirus confusion
With people swarming the aisles of our supermarkets grabbing every multipack of dunny paper they can lay their hands on,…
Through the ABC’s looking glass
‘How can you look at future technologies? They’re not invented yet!’ retorted Leigh Sales gleefully. If Lewis Carroll had created…
To Boris, from down under
Dear Boris, How ironic that at the very moment you succeed in unshackling your great country from the tyranny and…
Bye bye Holden, meat pies…
If you think the shutting down of Holden, the end of that much-loved brand, the loss of automotive jobs and…
Will Morrison fight?
To ‘culturally appropriate’ General George S. Patton: No bastard ever won a war by refusing to fight the battle. Slowly,…
Climate warriors
It’s been an endless summer but not in the style of the 1966 classic film of sun and surf. Our…
Charles threatens the Crown
Australia’s constitutional monarchy, much like Canada’s, is one of the great success stories to have grown out of the British…
