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Here’s hoping ScoMo’s new consensus with the unions is not what it appears
Is Scott Morrison’s industrial reform agenda a serious attempt at industrial change, or is it #ScottyfromMarketing looking for a mechanism…
Wacky Wayne Swan brings paranoia to the poll in Eden-Monaro
Are you ready, people? Tinfoil hats on? Teeth rotting nicely, fluoride-free? Anti 5G underwear secure? Right. Here are the highlights…
In a mental health crisis church controls don’t pass the pub test
In New South Wales, pubs and clubs will soon be allowed to open for 50 people but churches will still…
So where’s the apology for laughing at workplace deaths, Clementine?
As the world knows now, Clementine Ford has (conditionally) apologised for her sidesplitter “Honestly, corona virus isn’t killing men fast…
Thanks for the speech, Prime Minister, but there is nothing normal about our ‘new normal’
As our world experiences vast arrays of change as a result of COVID-19, we keep hearing new phrases which albeit…
Meanwhile, in the Ultimo bubble…
We are tentatively emerging from lockdown, braving a pandemic of the likes we have not seen for a century, but…
Millennials have something serious to complain about
While the worst health effects of coronavirus are suffered by the elderly, the brunt of economic pain inflicts the young.…
Colour me woke
Crayola has launched a new range of crayons to represent 40 different skin tones and reflect ‘the full spectrum of human…
Believing ‘all women’ is a right-wing trap?
In a New York Times article last week, leading left-wing thinker Susan Faludi declared that the hashtag #BelieveWomen does not…
‘Nothing like what the public think it is’: Peter Ridd on the truth about climate change and ‘peer review’
Dr Peter Ridd speaks to Gideon Rozner about why ‘peer review’ is not necessarily the quality-control mechanism that the public has been…
Medicos should have shown more scepticism over lockdown
As a general rule, it might be fair to say that us doctors should be wary of politics. There are two sides to…
Recession. Clickbait fun?
Recession. Fun for all the family, when Dad loses his job, Mum loses hers, the kids’ marks deteriorate under the…
Pacific Island states will not longer play the patsies for the climate alarmists
Number eight in Craig Kelly’s series 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’…
Still Sheean and the Navy get nothing
Why is the government refusing to listen to the recommendation of its own inquiry for a Victoria Cross for Teddy…
Washington warns Danandrewstan: Mike Pompeo on China, coronavirus and the Belt and Road
Spectator Australia editor and Sky News Australia host Rowan Dean spoke exclusively with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…
After their $60 billion blunder will our shinybums start speaking English, not bureaucratese?
“Look, that’s the Treasury. That’s where they keep the money.” The dad was pointing out Canberra landmarks to his small…
Today’s left: “boiling babies” and “killing men”
All around the world, far-left lunatics are losing their appeal thanks to their uncontrollable, rising hatred. It’s become a race…
How Canberra can open closed state borders
It is unconstitutional to close borders between states, now that medical advice assures the Premiers that there is no scientific…
Now is maybe the time to start talking about God
Writer Helen Garner, talking about a difficult time in her life, described a feeling that there was a column of…
Closed borders are unconstitutional – no question
You can’t argue that there is still a national coronavirus emergency that provides an exemption to Section 92 of the…
Why the time has come for national security hospitals
Catastrophes are sadly a part of life. Many cannot be prevented, but can at least be better handled than is…
Eden Monaro: will coronavirus campaigning skew the result?
The 2007 federal election was held in the early days of social media. Many a time when John Howard visited…
Why not replace politicians with the ‘experts’?
Is it time to replace our elected politicians with non-elected experts? We have always voted representatives into public office. But…
Wolf Warriors or China’s whores?
The media has quickly adopted the romanticised term ‘wolf warriors’ for those who in reality should be termed China’s prostitutes.…
The most important issue of 2020: sexist kids water bottles
Coronavirus seems to reveal the best and worst of humanity. Most Australians have spent the last two months adjusting to…
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