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A tale of two leaders
This Flat White article is written by a guest author. This is a tale of two Liberal leaders in Australia:…
Central banks need laxer inflation targets
The cost of reducing inflation to 2 per cent seems too high
Thorpe: The King’s position is to wipe us out
Yesterday, the Australian Senate passed legislation enabling the Voice to Parliament referendum to take place in the next 6 months. Constitution…
Local scientists use AI to determine Covid is ‘extremely well adapted for humans’
‘Pandemic’ might be the first prominent ‘P-word’ one might use to describe the period between 2020-22, and now ‘polarising’ very…
Why Menzies still matters
Matthew Bach’s piece Menzies is dead. It’s time for the Liberals to forge a new path in The Age on June…
The West’s child exploitation scandal: groomers and abusers
One Nation is referring the Classification Board to a Senate inquiry regarding the creep of inappropriate content that has made…
The world’s next China will be … China. What will Australia be?
Are we really going to be the lucky country forever? Or are we actually the stupid self-indulgent teenage brat of…
The courage to ‘speak the truth’
A recent Spectator Australia article by Victorian Liberal MP Beverley McArthur, in which she criticised Geelong Council’s decision to cancel Australia…
Labor and the LNP wage war on women and girls
The war on girls and women intensified last week with the Palaszczuk Labor government becoming the latest state to pass gender…
Cooking with(out) gas: how green politics steals from Australians
If you believe the Greens and their ‘yes men’ posse of MSM papers, Australia is banning gas to save the…
Spectator TV Australia: the separation of powers and the Voice
From the IPA, Scott Hargreaves identifies an important legal issue of where the Voice sits on the separation of powers.…
Double Shot Ep7: David Flint on Moscow, Beijing, and US Foreign Policy
Special guest Paul Batten speaks in praise of hedge fund billionaire, philanthropist, and virtual mentor to millions Ray Dalio, saying…
Howl at the Moon indeed
I followed the fortunes of what used to be known as the Melbourne Festival until it was struck off the…
World Bank woes
The World Bank has a great cosmopolitan air to its name – not like one of those parochial institutions like…
Children behaving badly
Something is going seriously wrong with our children. Standards are declining in education; manners and respect are forgotten; ignorance, expectation,…
Are health regulators turning a blind eye to puberty blockers?
With a never-ending increase in red tape across the healthcare industry, you might be surprised to learn that ‘gender-affirming care’…
Time and tithe: the Climate Cult’s expensive virtue
Virtue has always been for sale. The oldest fragments of human civilisation contain tributes left for the gods in a…
The Bowen Basin coal pioneers – Collinsville, Thiess, and Utah
When they erect a huge monument to the coal pioneers of the Bowen Basin, three groups must be prominent: The…
New Zealand: are bilingual road signs safe?
At a time when the dilapidated state of New Zealand’s roads are a major public concern and the government has…
Grifting on the Royal brand…?
‘The F***ing Grifters… That’s the podcast we should have launched with them.’ These were the frustrated words of Bill Simmons,…
More than PR clichés
After an individual at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia allegedly breached confidentiality agreements and disclosed upcoming government tax policy to colleagues and…
Female trauma and political capital
The case of Brittany Higgins has brought me into a number of conversations about the way the criminal justice system…
Alan Jones: Albanese in a mess
There is no doubt that in politics, worldwide, the Left are in the ascendant; but they enjoy undeserving support from…
Misinformation, disinformation, and cloudy thinking
I have a friend, well educated and aware of current affairs, but I always seem to have some sort of…
Always Sunny: going where others wouldn’t dare
Few would believe me If I said that a show about a group of politically incorrect, sociopathic, and narcissistic alcoholics…
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