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Leadership beyond politics, rarely found in republics
The oldest office in the land has just changed hands, with barely a ripple on the surface. Acting on the…
How to be a man? Be a boy first
Imagine for a moment that you have been given a special power. I don’t mean one of those super powers…
What’s woke this week?
The fairyland that is wokedom is a wondrous place. Freed from the constraints of objective reality, history, facts and even…
Is Tim Soutphommasane Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in drag?
At “The Sydney Morning Herald”, the former race discrimination commissioner Tim Sensitive-About-His-Name sings the praises of one of the new…
Rough sleepers need tough love
The Everybody’s Home lobby group has been clanging the alarm bells about a growing rate of homelessness in Western Sydney.…
Peta Credlin: better on the outside
Nine’s dead tree division published a long comment piece by Speccie contributor John Ruddick that amounted to a political love…
It’s too late to save the government – but not save politics
The problem with Australian politics is the paradox of a lack of clear choices and a context of unprecedented polarisation.…
unPresidented idiocy from the anti-Trump brigade
‘Not my President!’ can be heard echoing across the American leftscape, two years after Donald Trump’s inauguration, interspersed with ‘Let’s…
DFAT deception on Kokoda
Community Museums and Trade Centres under construction along the Kokoda Trail are the latest taxpayer funded folly of our so-called…
Third party insurance against another decade of political failure
Economic and social decline looks set-in as our lost political decade morphs into a second with no end in sight.…
Can shock treatment save the Liberal Party?
As 2019 gets underway, the Coalition finds itself in arguably its worst political position in recent memory. All the opinion…
The media won’t tell you, but it’s the middle-class rioting in France
One less-reported fact about the Paris ‘yellow vest’ riots is that they have sparked by small business traders, petit bourgeois,…
Bugger the bush – and our agricultural industries too
The enemies of the bush (resident in green-and-pleasant Brisbane) plan to close the Queensland pastoral colleges in droughty Longreach and…
Is our next Governor-General too safe, too male, too white?
In my book Winners Don’t Cheat, which is aimed at young Australians but accessible to all ages, I warn against identifying…
Just whose Palestine would Labor recognise?
How can some leading Australian politicians be so misguided and so wrong-headed as to call for the recognition of a…
The transsexual tsunami and freedom of speech
Back in 1964 Bob Dylan told us that “the times, they are a changin’.” I take it that even he…
Market forces: let’s get this party started safe
As we reach the peak of music festival season in Australia, it’s become an unfortunate probability that multiple young Australians…
Labor’s housing affordability mess: profit for the few, pain for the many
Labor’s two-pronged housing affordability package has them rowing the same boat in both directions, expending a lot of taxpayer dollars…
Neil Prakash: leave him to his victims’ mercy
The controversy surrounding the government’s attempts to strip ISIS member Neil Prakash of his Australian citizenship is at a stalemate,…
Thugs welcome, bring guns
The news is broadcast far and wide: California is a safe haven for foreign criminals, complete with instant welfare benefits…
Politics is getting nastier because we’re getting dumber
An intriguing argument from a British politician and writer Dan Hannan: The fall in IQ scores in the West is…
When it’s fine for the left to do a Fraser Anning
Context and explanation meant absolutely nothing to the outraged leftist media complex collaborating with self-interested politicians when accusing Senator Fraser…
Truth tellers, beware
“Tell the truth and shame the devil,” the Inquisitors would say But for some truth tellers, misery – even death…
Destructive Dutton shows why he bombed back in the spill
There’s delicious irony that political judgement was the at the heart of Peter Dutton’s divisive weekend outburst against former colleague…
Cirque du Sharia
Perhaps rejoicing at Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban are working hard not to…
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