In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Close polls puzzle pundits as NZ election looms
Centre-right voters are increasingly wondering how many more disasters it will take to seriously dent the government’s poll numbers. Whether…
Confessions of a Young Liberal
One of the very first pieces that ran in The Monthly magazine was about the activities of the Young Liberals. It was…
Finding truth in the shadows of social media
As more time is being spent scrolling through social media than reading books, our ability to identify fiction and differentiate…
Spectator TV Australia: the vibe and water justice
Ramesh Thakur talks about the strange political relationship between Covid and US politics. Will the next Presidential race be a…
Being nasty to Nigel
The UK’s born-to-rule class of hedge fund managers, politicians, bureaucrats, CEOs, and old-money have never forgiven the former Member of…
The failure of forced transition despite public lust for green energy
Throughout history, interactions of supply and demand have driven ‘transitions’ – think horses to cars and trains; whale oil to…
Big government, jobs, and productivity
My mum arrived in Australia with the first boatload of second world war refugees at the end of 1947. She…
Extraction 2: action goes old school
One of the biggest surprises in recent years is Extraction. A no-nonsense, adrenaline-fuelled action movie about a tough soldier ploughing his…
Affirmative action is dead in US universities
Universities in the US, by law, will no longer be allowed to discriminate to allow access to college education based…
The governing orthodoxy or the truth?
No, look, seriously, what do you say to a Labor government that plans to fine companies billions of dollars for…
Make Australian politics great again
Spectator Australia writer, and now-elected Member of the NSW Legislative Council, the Hon. John Ruddick, has given his maiden speech. Mr…
Children and dementia patients next for ACT euthanasia laws
It is no wonder the ACT government wants to take over the Catholic-run Calvary Hospital. Faithful Catholics are one of…
Labor’s Censorship Bill a threat to democracy
Who do you trust to determine what is true and what is false? To determine which news and opinion is…
Palaszczuk denies claim Brisbane will be renamed
Social media went crazy yesterday afternoon when 4BC host Peter Gleeson casually mentioned that there were plots afoot to change…
Meet the Australian women making a stand for free speech
Some of Australia’s best emerging female leaders gathered in New South Wales last Thursday to formally protest the trans takeover…
Progressives target progress in their unholy war
A grassroots movement was once a significant thing. It fought to right injustices that had gone unchallenged for too long.…
The new ‘er guizi’
During the dark years of Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, when Stanley Village was an internment camp for British nationals…
Character, not category
We have lost ground on what good character means. It is because it has become harder and harder to know…
The abuse of a puppet President
Elder abuse is any act within a relationship of trust which results in harm to an older person. It can be…
Predators and parasites prowl the Bowen Basin
After our great adventure helping Utah Development Co locate and measure their magnificent coal resources along the western edge of…
Fatal attraction: the trans trend and ESG cage
If you had recently awoken from a decade-long coma and jumped online you’d think you were still in a dreamscape.…
Parental rights or hateful extremism?
They are ‘hard-right, anti-government’ bogey-men threatening the lives of the LGBTQ+ and ‘democracy’! Or so went the general exclamation of…
Hear my voice
As the third-generation progeny of settlers who came to Australia and settled on the then-dry plains of the Riverina from…
Forgetting the forgotten
For a few days now, I have been thinking about the following sentences: ‘I do not believe that the real…
‘The Woke-ass punks who run NYC are afraid of pizza?’
If you wanted a political movement to succeed, the very last thing you’d do is wage war against pizza. You…
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