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

Time to make our gongs truly Australian: the Great Bloke, the Grouse Sheila and more

26 January 2021 1:31 pm

Outstanding Australians are honoured at this time every year in recognition of their contribution to our country. The problem is…

January 26: The Church of Woke’s one day of the year

26 January 2021 4:00 am

We are religious, as religion is an inescapable concept and everybody is religious. Religions have their holy days (from which we get…

The trust fund kids of the Guardian: too slack to even compile their own hit list

25 January 2021 6:11 pm

On January 21 and 22. the Institute of Public Affairs received correspondence about a planned register of think-tanks in Australia…

Bastard Bill unfit for public office

25 January 2021 3:27 pm

Bastard Bill’, ‘Slithering Shorten’ — call him what you will — confirmed again this weekend why he is comprehensively unfit…

ACB or ABC? Cricket Australia’s woke arrogance

25 January 2021 1:18 pm

The same cricketers who intend to snub Australia Day at home want priority receiving the Covid vaccine so they can…

ScoMo runs up the white flag on carbon

25 January 2021 5:00 am

It was only at midday Friday The Spectator Australia asked Will Australia face carbon tariffs under the Biden regime? By…

Will NSW follow Dan Andrewstan and only consult allies over the transgender agenda?

24 January 2021 7:44 pm

Here’s an interesting insight into how the game of politics is played. Regarding the Victorian ‘Suppression (Conversion) Bill’ where the MP’s stated…

Happy Australia Day Daniel Andrews – you hideous hypocrite

24 January 2021 5:01 pm

There are many words I could choose to describe Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews. In the spirit of Australia Day, I…

War is a continuation of politics by other means – trade too

24 January 2021 2:04 pm

War is a continuation of politics by other means. The German strategist Carl von Clausewitz, who wrote the book on…

Australia’s news bargaining code is unworkable – and could break the internet as we know it

24 January 2021 7:00 am

America is the most innovative country globally because American businesses hustle to innovate and create new products and services. Competition…

She Who Must Not Be Named

23 January 2021 7:00 am

Australia’s greatest tennis player turned Christian minister is vilified every January for daring to hold a traditional view of marriage…

So what can we say about the Podium Poet?

22 January 2021 4:47 pm

So let’s talk about the poetry thing and the poet who read poetry at the inauguration. America’s National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman who recited the…

Australia versus Google

22 January 2021 2:31 pm

The out-going Trump administration finally woke up to a nasty little rort that the Australian government was planning on running…

Will Australia face carbon tariffs under the Biden regime?

22 January 2021 12:13 pm

Day 1 of the Biden Presidency saw the reversal of several of the Trump administration’s environmental policies, including tighter vehicle emissions standards, a moratorium on oil and natural…

Statistics on Indigenous women as perpetrators

22 January 2021 11:53 am

It isn’t easy to find data on Indigenous women’s violence. The numerous reports on Indigenous violence usually omit any mention…

Say that you love me

22 January 2021 5:00 am

The only thing politicians fear is the media. If they own the media, they have nothing to fear.  This is…

The mounting problem of, er, multi-racial whiteness

21 January 2021 7:00 pm

How are we to reconcile the fact that white supremacists are increasingly ethnically diverse? This oxymoronic conundrum has recently been…

Preening premiers have ensured our borders are bonkers

21 January 2021 4:43 pm

Oh 2021, what hopes we had for you.  When the clock chimed midnight on New Year’s Eve, a national sigh…

The worst President ever?

21 January 2021 5:00 am

The final days of the 45th United States president’s time in office saw a push from a number of organs of…

An early coronavirus vaccine rollout? Be careful what you wish for…

20 January 2021 7:13 pm

Following reports that 30 people died in Norway after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, the government, its health officers and Pfizer…

Trains, plains and escalators

20 January 2021 5:00 pm

Vladimir Lenin once said that there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. The events two…

Biden’s basement or Blofeld’s lair?

20 January 2021 2:30 pm

Former senator, strategist and Spectator Australia and Australian’s contributor Stephen Loosley wrote yesterday of what he called “conspiracy-saturated claims” about…

Will Albo be elbowed?

20 January 2021 12:00 pm

In 2005 American psychologist Philip E Tetlock published a book Expert Political Judgement in which he analysed 82,000 expert political…

Why are we wasting so much of Australia?

20 January 2021 5:00 am

‘Social distancing’ was the motto of 2020. However, with around 90 per cent of Australia’s population crammed into 0.22 per…

How will we feel about that nice Mr Biden when China next rattles the sabre?

19 January 2021 7:22 pm

I have attempted on a number of occasions to have a conversation with my family about Donald Trump’s presidency with…