Features Australia

Asylum accessories

7 September 2019 9:00 am

Alan Jones is wrong. The case of the Sri Lankan family whose deportation has been stalled illustrates what people smugglers…

ABC of Pauline’s revenge

7 September 2019 9:00 am

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has two Bills at hand to clobber the anti-conservative ABC. The first would force it to…

Below the belt —and road

7 September 2019 9:00 am

In the Land of Oz, when Labor apparatchiks follow the yellow brick road  to the end of the rainbow —…

Celebrity climate sting

7 September 2019 9:00 am

I’m a mediocre guitar player. I’ve also said 12 lines in a one-act play. Neither of these activities gave me…

Tribune of the people

7 September 2019 9:00 am

The longstanding aim of a sinister fifth column has been, for over three decades, to silence Alan Jones. It is…

Where’s our Greta?

7 September 2019 9:00 am

Why is Australia being left behind on climate change? I don’t mean left behind in the sense of not doing…

Superglued to socialism

31 August 2019 9:00 am

‘With love & rage…’.  This is how an existential threat to civilisation signs off. The cute tag hangs below Extinction…

Business/Robbery etc

31 August 2019 9:00 am

Twenty-three years ago deputy Liberal leader Peter Costello tried to prevent Tim Fischer becoming Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister. But newly…

Climate change stripped bare

31 August 2019 9:00 am

Last July, the Prince of Wales warned global leaders they have ‘18 critical months’ to solve climate change and restore…

Pilgrim Daughter

31 August 2019 9:00 am

Like the Pilgrim Fathers before her, Greta Thunberg, the po-faced Pilgrim Daughter of the climate cult, set sail for America…

Les États Unis will always be a foreign country to Macron

31 August 2019 9:00 am

Last weekend’s G7 summit of political leaders from the world’s largest democratic economies opened with a surprise, as the French…

Reasonable doubt about Pell

31 August 2019 9:00 am

I want to remind readers of the Speccie of a key premise – really it is a trade-off that we…

Schumpeter’s vision returns

31 August 2019 9:00 am

A prominent economist has written that capitalism is in crisis. Its wealth creation engine is sputtering. Those at the head…

Fake constitutional change

31 August 2019 9:00 am

The 20th Anniversary of the landslide victory by the rank-and-file over a juggernaut of Australia’s elites —the mainstream media, most…

Put a sock in it, Kel

24 August 2019 9:00 am

My gosh these are delicate times Down Under. Not for Australians the vigorous thrust and parry of political debate with…

Aussiexit

24 August 2019 9:00 am

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Brexit decision on June 23, 2016, was that a majority of voters…

Mother Jacinda and climate change’s King Canute

24 August 2019 9:00 am

A Pacific Island Forum in Tuvalu was always going to be inundated by climate catastrophism. One of the lowest-lying island…

Let thespians tremble

24 August 2019 9:00 am

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now,’ exhorts Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, whipping up the crowd against…

Jaded by Jacinda

24 August 2019 9:00 am

On a Pacific cruise ship recently, passengers were subjected to a rant by an Australian ‘comedian’ – a word now…

Ice-pack of lies

24 August 2019 9:00 am

Unfortunately, critical scientific research does not always filter through to the public. Consequently, climate alarmists are getting away with blue…

Moment of evil

24 August 2019 9:00 am

It was a moment of sheer evil. This was when the closely guarded secret bill to allow the killing of…

Litmus test for the Libs

24 August 2019 9:00 am

Despite ScoMo’s ‘miracle’ victory over the now almost forgotten Bill Shorten, and much Liberal party celebrating over the apparent return…

Molotov’s poisonous cocktail

24 August 2019 9:00 am

Yesterday’s 80th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the curtain-raiser for Hitler’s invasion of Poland a week later,…

Keneally sells out

17 August 2019 9:00 am

It is not the easiest thing in the world to cause a stir among conservatives. They are often described as…

Business/Robbery etc

17 August 2019 9:00 am

Having turned 80 last month and 12 years out of office, Australia’s 25th Prime Minister John Winston Howard’s occasional and…