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Nobody is above the law in the United States – except a million or so illegal immigrants
Watching the Democrats haul their impeachment caravan across Washington these past days I was struck by the punctuation marks in…
Dear XYs, we love you
I bloody love men. I love almost everything about them: the banter, the directness, the chivalry and the everyday interactions…
Memo MPs: how have you forgotten 60,000 years of bushfire prevention?
The current weather and wildfire situation is neither unprecedented nor unexpected. These latest holocausts are a direct consequence of the…
Christian Porter: no more free speech, thank you very much
Despite all the arguments made and support garnered for a constitutional amendment that would guarantee our freedom of speech and…
What’s woke this week?
Non-binary wokeworld is at the top of our list this week with gender-inclusive gingerbreads out and proud. In other woke…
Fight for the Bight has jumped the shark
The Great Australian Bight has been the focus for two environmental campaigns this week. Typically for such campaigns, each seems…
We cannot let anti-Semitism spread here
We are facing a growing threat of left-wing anti-Semitism that we must not allow to fester and infect Australia. Anti-Semitism…
Hong Kong is fighting for its very soul, Extinction Rebellion are throwing tantrums
As tensions rise in Hong Kong and the protests become ever more violent, some have begun wavering in their support…
Fire up your writing engine – and win five grand
Theme: ‘…or forever hold your peace’. It is with great delight that we announce the sixth annual Spectator Australia Thawley…
Why men need to start being men again
“Australia’s ‘man drought’ is real — especially if you’re a Christian woman looking for love” was the attention-grabbing ABC headline…
The Beige Barrier Reef?
A key claim in a January 2016 article in the scientific journal, Nature, is that there are no longer any living colonies of Acropora…
Andrew Hastie and James Paterson are safe on our soil, but where are Liu Hu and Dong Rubin?
Senator James Paterson and West Australian Liberal Andrew Hastie have stoutly and correctly refused to ‘repent’ as requested by the…
EXCLUSIVE: To see the true state of the economy, just visit ScoMo’s electorate office
In recent months growth in the Australian retail sector has slowed to a crawl, as shop owners struggle with the…
Beijing Bob bangs the wrong drum?
On Monday, ABC’s panel programme The Drum discussed Australia’s complicated relationship with China, and the Chinese Communist Party’s government decision…
The aged care outrage: if we can extend life, we must do it with dignity
Even before the royal commission, no one in Australia wanted to go into aged care. And little wonder. The interim…
Huawei: the telco that spooked Canberra – and the world
If you were to travel back in time to October 2013, Huawei was a rising telecom equipment manufacturer from China…
Are the Greens and Change.org attempting to manipulate the family law inquiry?
If they ever have a good week, last week was an unmitigated disaster for the Greens. Deputy leader Larissa Waters…
Socialism 2.0: it’s now the wokeing versus the working class
Under the original Marxism, inspired by the bearded bum himself, socialist revolution would happen when the working class rose up…
Want to lift wages? Cut payroll tax
Slow economic growth and sluggish wages seem to be the new normal in Australia. This is not good enough, and…
When the woke go for broke and choke
When the woke overcook the politically correct wokeness that they perpetually live in and instead get slapped down by normality,…
Winnie, you and your Peking party panjandrums can’t purge our pols
It seems that two prominent Liberal MPs, James Paterson and Andrew Hastie, have blotted their copybooks with the panda panjandrums…
Freedom of speech guarantees your right to know
The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution contains the following words: Congress shall make…
The ABC’s credibility has vanished beneath the waves, not Venice
The ABC has clearly given up on any pretence of any claim to rational, balanced and impartial journalism. This fact…
Emmo calls out Twitter, lynch mob madness explodes
Craig Emerson is a former federal Labor minister and parliamentarian who represented the Queensland seat of Rankin from 1998 to…
Two years on from “marriage equality”, basic freedoms are under threat
As the nation today marks the second anniversary of the vote to redefine marriage, we remain in the grip of…
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