In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Amazon shuts down smart home after hate speech allegation
News of Amazon allegedly locking out a smart home user over hate speech allegations is raising questions about technocratic overreach.…
Education, education, education
It is indubitable that a good education leads to a better life for those who are fortunate enough to receive…
In need of a tree?
As traumatic accounts of families struggling to pay their mortgages or rent fill our newspapers and TV screens, spare a…
Save the planet … sacrifice a child?!
In my previous article, I expressed the view that modern environmentalism resembles a pantheistic religion in that it contains a…
21st century snake oil
Big Pharma may appear to be the zenith of craven greed and duplicity with their billions made off vaccines they…
mRNA vaccines fast-tracked for Australian agriculture
After the spectacular failure of mRNA vaccines in human trials, the agricultural industry is pushing ahead with mRNA vaccines for…
The un-United Nations
The role of the United Nations in the modern world has fallen into disrepute; the recent elevation of Russia as…
Labor’s Voice for bureaucrats
If the Voice to Parliament is the wondrous advance that the crazy-eyed morality police want us to believe, then why…
To gig or not to gig. Is that the question?
If you’ve ever been to a pub gig, you’ll have taken part in what the Albanese government wants to (effectively)…
It’s amazing how tolerant home borrowers have become
It seems like the Aston by-election was not just a disaster for the Liberal Party, losing a once-safe seat from…
Silvio Berlusconi: the man who wanted to make Italy great again
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has died, aged 86, from complications arising from leukaemia. With him passes also a…
Playing politics with the Governor
This piece is authored by a guest writer. The beauty of Australia’s Constitutional Monarchy is the absence of politics from…
God did not give us the Church to push political opinion
I wish I didn’t have to write articles about the Catholic Church. Genuinely, I wish the Catholic Church would act…
Taming the inflation monster
The Reserve Bank of Australia (‘RBA’) has raised the cash rate – the rate that banks pay to borrow funds…
The West’s trauma over radical gender theory
‘Anorexic’ is trending on social media after a bizarre TikTok from Dylan Mulvaney went viral showing the trans influencer looking…
Spectator TV Australia: Aseem Malhotra on the future of medical integrity in the age of fear
Aseem Malhotra joins Speccie TV while on tour across Australia speaking about the importance of medical freedom and correcting the…
Double Shot Ep6: Ralph Schoellhammer on Germany’s green collapse
The largest economy in the European Union bloc has entered a recession driven by rising energy costs. Ralph Schoellhammer speaks…
Putting the ‘artificial’ in intelligence: the morality of the digital mind
Artificial intelligence is, well, artificial. And the use of ‘intelligence’ in this label is a misnomer. AI machines cannot think.…
From comrade to Dame in a New York minute
They say that a week is a long time in politics and indeed that seems to be truer now than…
Give us a fair go! Work, mass migration, housing, and the red tape disaster
The recently announced plan of the federal government to preference a new round of mass migration over those Australian pensioners,…
Viceregal foot-in-mouth disorder
There’s a desperate need, it seems, for an official Vice Regal Etiquette Manual. But not one about how we should…
Glory to Hong Kong
Recently someone – no name, no return address – sent me a white cotton T-shirt. On the front it said…
Does the work from home model have a future?
It is 8 am on a Monday morning in Sydney’s CBD. While in the grasp of winter, the cool air…
Trudeau’s nasty plan to fight fire with carbon taxes
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not be a particularly moral creature, but he is smart. Having watched part of…
Woke-ers of the world unite!
My copy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago is falling apart. I bought it many years ago at a second-hand book store…
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