“Women abandon Coalition in droves“, a headline says in The Australian today. The story covers data from the Australian Leadership…

As a young girl in the eighties, I had the freedom to be who I wanted to be. I wasn’t…

You have no doubt noticed over the past few years – but accelerating wildly and widely in the last one…

This is the first of a regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and…

My take on the current Christine Holgate saga is a bit pendulum-like.  I thought, and think, that the furore over…

Women, women, women. Aren’t you sick to death of hearing about women? Endless bleating about women’s tough lives, whining about…

In Senate Estimates hearings today Christine Holgate said she was “humiliated” by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.  Therefore, apparently, he is confirmed…

SpecOz readers would have seen yesterday’s reports about Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors and her real estate binge-buying, which…

Those who insist that too many indigenous people are in jail confuse a social issue with a justice issue, and…

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Last Thursday,  the Victorian government restarted its Covid hotel quarantine program.  This is the fourth…

Just as I was celebrating the fact that in ditching Turnbull from the ridiculous New South Wales climate job the…

Over the last year, a huge proportion of the residents in the aged care facilities around our country did not…

The progressives’ latest offering of ‘woker-tainment’ shows they are more interested in political posturing than creating beautiful or meaningful art.  …

There are times when a battle needs to be fought and mates need to stand up and be counted. Many…

Speculation has now commenced as to the future leadership of Premier Daniel Andrews given his slow progress in recovering from…

It was the by-line that caught my eye “The whole canon is being erased”, or at least that’s how I…

In a defence of arts and humanities departments in the Nine newspapers last week that flagged concerns about their survival,…

It’s been just over a year since the Wuhan coronavirus changed the world as we know it. Back then, only…

Prince Philip was a climate change sceptic. In correspondence to Spectator Australia contributor and author Ian Plimer back in 2018,…

Prince Philip once said that his job – first, second and last – was ‘to never let the Queen down’.…

In the new woke order racism is everywhere. Systems of law hide ‘coded language’ and discrimination. Educational institutions deliver ‘unequal…

“Women are hard on women. Women dislike women.” — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own.  Over the last century,…

On Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined his ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown. An important aspect of this plan is…

The corona-crisis has given birth to a mishmash of public policy programs with ‘Job’ in the title, but there is…

Ever since the radical privately-funded and owned Museum of Old and New Art, MONA, opened, Tasmania has gone through first…