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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Politicians are chipping away at our democracy. What will be left for the next generation?

24 September 2020 6:01 pm

It is reasonable to say that young people, in this country, are entitled to feel apprehensive over how Australia is…

No news, but the ABC is still serving up the soft and gooey guff

24 September 2020 4:05 pm

The ABC ended its 7.45 am main morning radio news broadcasts this week, a punishment for the public for not…

No end to the NBN nonsense 

24 September 2020 3:10 pm

The latest skirmish has erupted in the never-ending, highly partisan, NBN civil war.   The NBN was a disaster at the…

How pandemic panic has perverted our politics

24 September 2020 3:04 pm

Coronavirus has panicked Western leaders — not all, but most — into behaving irrationally and dishonestly. Australia, so lightly touched…

An extraordinary shutdown demands an extraordinary reopening

24 September 2020 5:00 am

An extraordinary shutdown needs an extraordinary reopening. Australia’s only hope for economic and social recovery from the devastating effects of…

The low emissions technology statement: a (hydrogen) bomb

23 September 2020 7:21 pm

Matt Canavan’s lucid insights published in the Australian this week show how little understanding politicians and officials have of the…

BREAKING: How the SpecOz is smashing Daniel Andrews indefinite detention plans

23 September 2020 5:48 pm

If you’re in Victoria and can hear a cracking sound, it’s because The Spectator Australia has dealt some mighty blows to…

Rugby Australia’s humiliation is complete

23 September 2020 3:35 pm

Rugby Australia sacked their star player and trashed their brand to keep a sponsor happy. Now they have no star…

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Andrews’ Ominbus Bill would allow union officials to police workplaces

23 September 2020 1:06 pm

As foreshadowed by The Spectator Australia yesterday union officials could be appointed as authorised officers under Victoria’s draconian Omnibus (Emergency…

The danger of following the experts

23 September 2020 5:00 am

People should be wary of politicians justifying their actions in terms of “following the experts.” Victorians are learning that lesson…

America’s wildfires: products of the policies that left us so badly burnt

22 September 2020 7:34 pm

First Australia in the first months of the year — and now the western parts of the United States. Australian…

New health advice from Victoria: get stoned

22 September 2020 5:08 pm

If you are a Victorian who has never tried illegal drugs, now might be a good time to start. Get…

More great jobs news from Victoria

22 September 2020 3:27 pm

There’s yet more evidence out today from the Bureau of Statistics that instead of #IstandwithDan, the hashtag should read #IstandinaqueueatCentrelinkthankstoDan.…

Celebrity pollies and turncoats may flame in – but most simply flameout

22 September 2020 1:31 pm

No-one could accuse Senator Kristina Keneally of being a turncoat, but a political ‘celebrity’? I reckon she’d settle for that. …

A Newspoll tick, but Daniel Andrews is still bottom of the class

22 September 2020 11:30 am

There’s been much buzz this morning around the Newspoll in The Australian which shows 62 per cent of Victorian voters…

Daniel Andrews’ indefinite detention plans – and yet more questions

22 September 2020 5:00 am

The lack of specificity in the Covid-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill raises critical questions on which the Bill is mute…

Replacing RBG – much ado about the same thing

21 September 2020 8:50 pm

Aren’t the Democrats hoping to win the Presidency so they can nominate a left-sympathiser judge to the vacancy on the…

COVID normal: life without freedom?

21 September 2020 6:30 pm

In recent months, you may have heard a new term being thrown around, in particular by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.…

US Supreme Court replacement rows: could they happen here?

21 September 2020 4:08 pm

The death of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday has ignited another intense feud over the…

From Canada: a new policy for the ABC

21 September 2020 1:10 pm

Canada’s Conservative Party, the official opposition to Trust Fund Trudeau’s ever more corrupt-looking lefty government, has a new leader. It…

Extinction Rebellion’s brave new protest

21 September 2020 11:36 am

Courageous, inspiring, fatuous, completely bloody ridiculous… From the Extinction Rebellion national newsletter, out this morning: The newsletter also declares “We…

Confronting China’s agents of influence: not McCarthyism, not racism – but in the national interest

21 September 2020 5:00 am

The father of liberalism, English philosopher John Locke once said, “We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the…

Clem and Yassmin’s dream date

20 September 2020 5:38 pm

What happens when two extremist exhibitionist feminists and professional victims sit down at a mic? It may sound like the…

I don’t like Donald Trump, but don’t hate him enough to be fashionable

20 September 2020 4:00 pm

Just for the record because everything is on the record: I doubt I could ever vote for Donald Trump.   My…

Sweden’s success mocks our folly

20 September 2020 11:09 am

Sweden matters. It sits there like a thousand-foot skyscraper in the middle of a medieval town, casting awkward shadows over…