In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The pub test: Australian parliamentarians have the worst public speaking skills
Australian politicians live in an alternative universe, a privileged cocoon that separates them from public opinion. The pub test is…
Politicising death: the US obsession with race politics
The death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man, is being spun as the next George Floyd. Neely died after he was…
Fukushima: our best argument for nuclear power
One of the more popular memes on social media is: ‘Worst Prime Minister Ever’. The label is variously applied to…
Grace, mercy, and justice: a pledge no politician can make
On Saturday, I had two great privileges. The first was to attend the ceremony for His Majesty King Charles III’s…
We can’t afford nonsense anymore
It was instilled into me from my labor-voting Dad, a Presbyterian carpenter with a fairly black-and-white view of life, that…
Women and girls last: the mantra of the moderate Liberals
Deputy Liberal Leader Sussan Ley has fired a warning shot at so-called culture warriors within her party. Essentially she’s saying…
Pesutto should listen to Meloni
The Victorian Liberal Party will, on Friday, meet to vote on a motion to expel MP Moira Deeming from the…
Children targeted by WHO ‘Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe’
The World Health Organisation has orchestrated a ‘framework for policy makers, educational and health authorities and specialists’ titled, Standards for…
Alan Jones: Labor governments defend gender ideology at the expense of children
I have written before about the disgraceful treatment in Victoria of the Liberal MP, Moira Deeming, a teacher turned politician.…
False money, false budget, false hope
Even before the Budget is given, we know it is false. That is because too much of the money on…
Blacktivism and the Crown
Given the coronation of King Charles III, there are differing and often conflicting opinions about the significance of the British…
Spectator TV Australia: China, childcare, coronation, and how the French forgot about Liberty
Episode 2: China, childcare, coronation, and how the French forgot about Liberty. This week we are joined by Rebecca Weisser…
Energy: drowning in subsidies
Paul Broad, the former head of Snowy Hydro, resigned amid, according to the Australian Financial Review, an escalation of tensions…
The reward is the risk
‘Don’t think, just do.’ Maverick’s words to his young protégé, Rooster, in the second Top Gun film, resonate with me. As an…
The shocking refusal of medical treatment to the unvaccinated
Vicki Derderian desperately needs a lifesaving heart. She suffered from heart failure in 2020 before doctors inserted a ventricular assist…
Liberals’ witch trial of Moira Deeming embodies the political fight of our time
The insane persecution of Moira Deeming by the Liberal Party should jolt all Australians out of their activist-induced coma. The stakes…
Un-informed consent
Did mass coercion make informed consent to the Covid jabs impossible? ‘I had my shots but I’m not having any…
Vaping: the public health pooh-bahs have won, for now
In his draconian crackdown on vaping, announced on Tuesday, Labor Health Minister Mark Butler characterised his new policy as addressing…
A Budget surplus would pose a political dilemma for Albanese and Chalmers
Those who cite Gough Whitlam as among Australia’s greatest Prime Ministers have a response when his critics point to his…
Up in smoke
Australia has some of the most draconian anti-smoking laws in the world. Like most public health puritans, Mark Butler doesn’t…
The splintered soul of the LNP
In his quest for immortality, Voldemort – Harry Potter’s evil nemesis – split his soul into small pieces and hid…
He that breaks a thing
‘And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.’ – Gandalf…
Homeschool, if you can
One of the biggest benefits of homeschooling is the healthy distance home education puts between politics, their peers, and our kids. We…
‘We believe the chargers have been a success!’
The biggest issue facing Mitcham Council is the anticipated rate increase, with options ranging from 7.8 per cent to 10…
Welcome to custodianship?
Perhaps the most inappropriate time I heard a welcome to country acknowledgement of the traditional custodians of the land was…
