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Dark Emu, the High Court and our crude new racial hierarchy
“[We hope for] a future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with…
Is there a Democrat who can defeat The Donald?
After an embarrassing Iowa caucus, the smoother New Hampshire primary did more to determine who will not become the nominee…
Millennial? Stressed? Then stop the spending habits that are stressing you out
Every generation thinks that they have had it tougher than the one before them. Each generation faces the challenges of…
How the High Court has endorsed identity politics in Love and Thomas
On Tuesday the High Court of Australia has handed down a decision that for all intents and purposes looks like…
Energy prices? Stop throwing money into the wind and deregulate
Through an open and competitive energy market, Australian can achieve the holy energy trinity: cheap, clean, and reliable. In 2020,…
Social media’s scorpion culture
The human experiment that has been hyper-connectivity facilitated by social media platforms tends to confirm Sartre’s statement that hell is…
Drop the cash ban. Let’s keep legal tender legal
When does the end justify the means? One answer to that question comes in legislation currently snaking its way through the…
Will Mr Invisible destroy the Morrison government?
What a shemozzle. A week after the mad uncle, Barnaby Joyce, tilted unsuccessfully to snatch the National party leadership back…
George Calombaris: now all too many of those underpaid workers will also soon be unemployed
I love eating out. I love good food, but I hate food wankery. I hate food fads. I hate the…
ScoMo might be stumbling, but Albo’s caught between two stools
It’s no secret that the Australian Labor Party is having elect-ile dysfunction problems. Since Paul Keating’s victory in 1993, the party has…
And the Oscar for the most fatuous virtue signalling goes to…
Sometimes all you can do is let them speak — and say nothing in reply. Just one of the memorable…
Want to help ScoMo win the next election? Join the Greens
So the Greens have heard of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Good for them. What they don’t appear to have…
Just what our schools need: Clementine Ford
Australian schools are struggling. Performance results are going backwards. In global terms, Australia is losing to Kazakhstan in the report…
Memo Canberra: stop your party games and get on with governing
A week is a long time in politics. Last week started with Bridget McKenzie becoming the Blockbuster Video of politics:…
How the rise of environmental politics is threatening traditional allegiances – and world trade
Some 172 years ago Karl Marx opened the modern era of politics in proclaiming that a spectre was haunting Europe.…
Adam Bandt loves Frozen? But what about the climate emergency?
Yes, folks. It’s true. Adam Bandt loves Frozen. Or Frozen II, to be precise. The Greens leader has done what…
How Oxfam’s propaganda starves the poor
Interesting musings from the economist Maarten Boudry on the topic of inequality, in a post titled “Is extreme wealth a…
A friendly word to the Never Trumpers
In an article sure to sort the sheep from the goats, Dr Michael L Brown (who is about to tour…
Chinese whispers
Following a good month and a half of often nocturnal motorised flights from active bushfires both at Echo Point in…
Ms Nina Funnell
On January 30 The Spectator Australia published an online opinion piece by Ms Bettina Arndt containing references to journalist Ms Nina Funnell.…
It’s time to give enterprise bargaining the boot
ACTU secretary Sally McManus believes Australia’s enterprise bargaining system is “broken”. While Jennifer Westacott, CEO of the Business Council of Australia…
The irrational faith of the Church of Climate Catastrophe
On Q&A on September 23 last year, Kerry O’Brien answered a question from an audience member about climate change. Speaking…
Wisdom at Railway Square
The incongruity made as much of an impact as the poster itself, on a wall along with a few other…
What’s woke this week?
Dinner parties, animal rights and newly defined crimes against Mother Nature top the list of woke stories this week. But…
Their ABC, biased? Nepotistic? Nah!
Richard Alston was minister for communications for around half the life of the Howard government. In that portfolio, he made…
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