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

COVID-19: How one eatery was done like a dinner by the bureaucrats

2 July 2020 6:48 pm

As more and more well-informed opinions appear, it is becoming clear that much of the coronavirus lockdown was unnecessary.  We…

Wattle load of nonsense

2 July 2020 4:00 pm

The following is a summary, as best as I understand it, of the process of rebranding Australia. When reading it,…

Why Australia’s draconian vaping policies deserve condemnation

2 July 2020 2:18 pm

Over one year ago, I authored a column in these very pages for The Spectator Australia. In that column, I…

Forget the ronas, look at our latest on LGBTIQ family violence prevention

2 July 2020 10:31 am

On July 1, the Andrews government announced a hefty funding boost for “LGBTIQ Family Violence Prevention”.   It was a curious…

The cyberattacks must be our Sputnik moment

2 July 2020 5:00 am

The recent cyberattacks by a “state-based cyber actor” on Australia underscores the necessary public policy shift the centre-right must make…

JobKeeper – or RecoveryPreventer?

1 July 2020 7:15 pm

Emergency income support has a time and place in buoying Australians through the pandemic. But the usefulness of the unprecedented…

School of crock

1 July 2020 3:54 pm

I have always loved looking after children. Helping them to learn and grow over this important part of their lives…

Parlez-vous Parler?

1 July 2020 1:26 pm

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The big three of the social media phenomena that has swept the world since the early naughties have finally met their match.…

Eden-Monaro: why so little focus on a seat so significant for both leaders?

1 July 2020 11:40 am

For all its reputation as a “bellwether seat” usually going with the government of the day, Eden-Monaro has not been…

Time to end the unions’ super scam

1 July 2020 5:00 am

Sir Robert Menzies said in 1949, “The best people in this community are … those who by thrift and self-sacrifice,…

Virgin’s Bain?

30 June 2020 6:00 pm

Last Friday, American private equity firm Bain Capital reached an agreement with Virgin Australia administrators Deloitte to purchase the dilapidated…

Power companies must decide: are they about virtue signalling or cheap, reliable energy?

30 June 2020 4:30 pm

Yesterday, The Australian reported dissent within the Australian Energy Council (AEC), the industry association that represents electricity generators.  Of its 24…

So Albo’s safe from a Bill Shorten challenge – for now?

30 June 2020 3:00 pm

It’s fair to say that things are pretty awkward at the top of the ALP right now. Jim Chalmers is…

Memo AFL: do you play footy – or politics?

30 June 2020 12:30 pm

Australia is not a racist country and the Australian Football League should know better than to give its support to…

Only a market-based, real-world, cost-benefit approach can prevent a great global corona depression

30 June 2020 5:00 am

The coronavirus, the political risk event of our generation, will change many things. Not least of these is the sufferance…

Queensland Labor: left and lefter

29 June 2020 7:22 pm

Queensland’s great political double act looks set to continue right up until the state election in October of this year.…

Confected outrage

29 June 2020 5:06 pm

Nestlé, why stop now? You are on a real roll trending and riding the tsunami wave of stupidity going on at the…

The truth about ethnic communities and coronavirus

29 June 2020 2:33 pm

Just as the epidemic shines a mirror on a host of issues, it has also raised questions about our multiculturalism.…

It’s 2020, so everything is racist. Especially at the ABC

29 June 2020 11:31 am

It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian ABC journalist, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and…

Mounting anger around the Family Law inquiry

29 June 2020 5:00 am

When Scott Morrison announced the Family Law Inquiry he described it on Channel 7 as an opportunity, “to hear directly…

Coming soon: the ALS Friedman Conference

28 June 2020 7:00 pm

It’s just a little over two weeks until Australia’s largest centre-right event, the ALS Friedman Conference, co-hosted by the Australian…

Cartoon lives matter

28 June 2020 4:54 pm

Hollywood animators were thrown into chaos last week when white actors said they would no longer voice coloured characters. Actors…

Is teeth whitening now racist too?

28 June 2020 2:26 pm

Remember when author J. K. Rowling got absolutely smashed on social media and cancelled for daring to say that only…

A glimmer of gender sanity in sport?

28 June 2020 5:00 am

After initially publicly backing gender-fluid guidelines for women’s and girls’ sport, Sports Minister Richard Colbeck is now walking this back.…

Instead of abandoning the humanities, let’s save them from the loony left

26 June 2020 3:09 pm

In announcing a major overhaul of university fees last Friday, Education Minister Dan Tehan said: “universities must teach Australians the…