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

More of those grants – just like Snarling Clementine’s

6 May 2020 10:55 am

Quelle surprise. It appears that Snarling Clementine jumped the gun when she took to Twitter to tell the world that…

Does business have the courage to confront China?

6 May 2020 5:00 am

When Andrew Forrest got up and introduced a Chinese official to an Australian press conference, I was gobsmacked at the…

Amazing but true: you can get an apology from the ABC

5 May 2020 6:16 pm

On the 6th of April, 2020, ABC Radio Melbourne Drive with Nicole Chvastek interviewed infectious diseases expert Mark Pellegrini from…

Imagine, if you will, a Venn diagram…

5 May 2020 3:27 pm

Imagine, if you will, a Venn diagram of: Lefties who agree with the Victorian Deputy Health Officer Annaliese van Diemen and believe…

St Jacinda walks among us – virtually. So what?

5 May 2020 1:05 pm

Social media, The Grauniad and the ABC’s fanbois and girls have worked themselves to a state of near orgasm knowing…

ScoMo and Daniel Andrews: guess who’s put politicking ahead of national unity?

5 May 2020 11:01 am

There was an interesting, albeit brief, window between education minister Dan Tehan’s comments about Victorian premier Daniel Andrews and their…

Susan’s story: the tale of a coronavirus suicide

5 May 2020 5:00 am

At the age of 32, Susan had everything going for her.  Growing up in a major regional hub in country…

Because what we need right now is more pointless intergenerational conflict, hey folks?

4 May 2020 7:17 pm

We’re going to let you into a little secret. Are you ready? We here at the SpecOz have been wondering…

EXCLUSIVE: Charming Clementine scores a government grant

4 May 2020 4:26 pm

Remember back in January when Yassmin Abdel-Magied scored that cushy $20,000 in cash and six-month residency in Paris? Remember how…

Why the Guardian Australia is wrong about green tape

4 May 2020 3:51 pm

In an article last Friday, the Guardian Australia outline a flawed critique of the Institute of Public Affairs’ latest research…

Covid-19: Sorting the wheat from the chaff since January 2020

4 May 2020 2:00 pm

Just yesterday a university degree in gender studies was valuable. Today a job at the supermarket is valuable. Yesterday a…

The Wuhan Flu gives us a greater sense of proportion of the real risk of death from climate change

4 May 2020 11:00 am

Number three in Craig Kelly’s series 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’…

Sayonara, Albo

4 May 2020 5:00 am

You may imagine that opposition can’t go too far wrong during this coronavirus pandemic. The government, under pressure, is having…

Coronavirus won’t kill globalisation

3 May 2020 5:55 pm

Our highly sophisticated global system of exchange now faces its single biggest existential threat. Globalisation has made us richer, freer,…

Labor’s right. We need to cut immigration

3 May 2020 3:43 pm

After well over a decade of engaging in a quiet bipartisan endorsement of Australia’s high immigration intake, Labor has finally…

School closures: light at the end of the tunnel – except in Danandrewstan

3 May 2020 1:45 pm

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Parents and policymakers have generally had enough, and schools are now…

Western lockdowns are killing people in the developing world

3 May 2020 5:00 am

There are a million reasons why the economy vs lives meme in relation to relaxing COVID-19 restrictions is a false…

Slowly but surely, Australia is returning to normalcy. Normal leftist idiocy, that is

2 May 2020 2:26 pm

Twelve Victorians still lie in hospital with coronavirus, including seven in intensive care, yet even the Pravda of Danandrewstan, The…

We’re over over-hearty healthcare workers

1 May 2020 7:12 pm

Over the past couple of months, the world has seen some heartbreaking scenes from hospitals hit hard by the COVID-19…

If Labor loses Eden-Monaro, stand by for civil war

1 May 2020 5:17 pm

Despite the Morrison governments various missteps and scandals since the election in May last year, opposition leader Anthony Albanese has…

Annaliese Van Diemen shows covidiocy is contagious

1 May 2020 4:00 pm

If you saw my reflection yesterday on the “shame industry’s” degrading of the James Cook 250th anniversary from a celebration…

Nothing like exposing the Twits of Danandrewstan

1 May 2020 12:05 pm

As I write this, coronavirus isolation measures are being eased in almost every state and territory in Australia. But in…

Coronavirus: wet markets or the lab – or both?

1 May 2020 11:30 am

The most credible version of how the coronavirus was let loose on the world glues together the two apparently contradictory…

Our cultural divide will complicate lockdown exit strategy

1 May 2020 5:00 am

Exit from the COVID-19 emergency measures is getting closer.  Exit will be fractious.  Some of us will want the disease…

The coronavirus can’t stop the windpower blowhards, let alone economic reality

30 April 2020 7:20 pm

For Australian energy, 2020 started precariously.  The bushfires showed the vulnerability of the nation to its subsidy-induced reliance on renewable…