In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Peter Costello: smirk back in langour
Nostalgia has strange powers. With Kelly O’Dwyer pulling the pin on her federal parliamentary career and vacating the previously ultra-safe…
What if Trump doesn’t blink?
While Donald Trump is offering the possibility of a deal, both sides remain largely entrenched in their original positions as…
Hatred of men is being normalised
It’s always a joy to read the wonderfully inclusive coverage in The Saturday Age — except when it isn’t. This…
Labor’s woman problem
Their ABC and Nine’s dead tree division (and dying limbs), The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, have done their…
The left’s next stop on the long march through the institutions: the Australian War Memorial?
The Australian War Memorial, arguably the nation’s most important cultural institution, has been unfairly targeted by cultural revisionists. Most recently…
No meat and two veg?
As the social mediaverse keeps discussing pros and cons of Gillette’s new ad, here comes PETA with the creepiest possible…
When the Australian sounds like the Australia Institute, watch out
Just last week, The Australian’s economics editor – a one-time leader writer for the Spec Oz, Adam Creighton — published…
‘Pick a side’, says Clem Ford. She means ‘Join mine – or else’
“Pick a side,” writes feminist cult leader exhibitionist, Clementine Ford. What she means is pick my side, because if you…
Transgender athletes: cheats and sophists
The problem with trying to accommodate every individual’s feelings and desires is that biological realities must eventually be ignored. To…
Foreign aid where everyone wins
What are our obligations to the global community? Most Anglo-western countries have generous foreign aid programs that compulsorily ‘share’ wealth…
The best a SJW can get
This week, Gillette jumped into bed with #MeToo and radical feminism. Yet it seems the only people getting screwed are…
Bin Marie Kondo, not your memories
Marie Kondo and her ideology of ridding yourself of possessions, has caught the world by storm. Yet, rather than bringing…
It’s not Huawei or the highway
China is herding over a million Turkic Uyghurs in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) into camps while Beijing simultaneously campaigns against Christmas…
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,…
