Afghanistan sits in the middle of everyone’s infrastructure projects like a pigeon shitting on a chessboard. The world has two options: it…

The court of review in Britian last week set aside the 2020 Bell Vs Tavistock Divisional Court decision that persons…

I recently saw this acronym for COVID.  C = Censor   O = Oppress  V = Victimise  I = Isolate  D = Divide  In a country that…

This is one of those bonus weeks for poll wonks when we get a Newspoll on Monday and the fortnightly…

JobKeeper saved Australia from a deep recession.  Labor knows this is true. They know that for the 3.8 million Australians…

The extraordinary 1988 John Hillcoat/Nick Cave film Ghosts … of the Civil Dead is set in a slightly futuristic high-tech…

Does Victoria actually have a virus roadmap? When you compare Daniel Andrews’ remarks with Gladys Berejiklian’s, a stark divide emerges.…

Last week, the ABC aired its latest British borrowing, the first episode of a documentary program called ‘The school that…

Exactly fifty years ago, the world’s first refuge for women fleeing domestic violence opened in London. After her small Chiswick terrace quickly filled to…

Reporting on today’s Newspoll has focussed on seat outcomes, a bit of a mug’s game as it assumes equal swings…

Defence Minister Peter Dutton has never shirked from hard decisions, and for the first time in some years a minister…

What actually triggered the mass civil disobedience by construction workers last week in Melbourne? The following is a record of…

The Spectator Australia, Sunday 19 September 2021: Daniel Andrews has this afternoon delivered his roadmap for freedom for Victorians…We can…

When they were talking the other day in Washington the other day, did Joe Biden tell Scott Morrison his recipe…

And the Julia Gillard Award for Hyperbole (pronounced hyperbowl) goes to Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud. He believes the Melbourne…

New South Wales model of decriminalisation and deregulation of prostitution has failed to protect workers in the sex industry while empowering…

Three questions in today’s quiz: Who couldn’t care less about party or national loyalties once the prime ministerial pension kicks…

First The Age called the Melbourne protests correctly. Now, even the Trotskyites have made points worth noting. Red Flag, their…

The Covid-19 Directions adopted by Australia’s governments have the effect of violating the rule of law when they excessively interfere…

The ongoing conflation of vaping and tobacco industry e-cigarettes is an intentional misdirection and a dangerous one.  The strongest observation…

Whatever your views on the Melbourne protests, here’s something you should be concerned about: the attack on media freedom –and transparency…

Your correspondent is a retired lawyer who these days prefers gardening to litigating. Spring in the Victorian High Country is…

In the era of Covid-19, change is everywhere. I have spent the past 18 months adapting to the Covid-19 university experience.…

Around the time of the April 2016 submarine announcement – a contest between Germany, Japan and France – there was…