In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Their ABC’s anti-religious hypocrisy
It’s a bit rich for Julia Baird and Hayley Gleeson, having spent the previous twelve months conducting a special ‘investigation’…
Is it Monash or Marxist University?
Monash University, the first Australian university to introduce trigger warnings, appropriately begins their “#CHANGEIT” advertising campaign by declaring “SOME OF…
Want to fix big government? Ban public sector workers from voting
The American revolutionaries claimed that “taxation without representation is tyranny”. In other words, taxing people, while denying them the vote,…
What colour is your Jesus?
It’s that time of the year again (Christmas or Easter) for someone out there to come out and say something…
The cricket crybabies have won
Now that the crybabies have won what are we to do? Steve Smith cried on national television and so did…
Plain packaging: fraud, farce and failure
The latest investigation by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission reveals that plain packaging laws, introduced in late 2012 and designed to make…
Official: it’s racist to care about black kids being abused
What identity politics hath wrought: Sunrise is under investigation by the broadcasting watchdog over a segment on Aboriginal families that was…
Union bashing is easy but we want prosperity
Whenever a problem arises a moment of reflection — or, in reality, a time to criticise and complain — is…
“Life is short but smokers’ lives are shorter. Legalise vaping now.”
The much-anticipated House of Representatives committee report on e-cigarettes and personal vaporisers – in other words, vaping – was tabled…
Populate or perish: destroying the village to save it from perishing?
Greg Sheridan’s article “Great leaders knew immigration truth: populate or perish” from Saturday’s Weekend Australian assails “the decisive turn by…
Childcare costs? Thank unions and government
In case you didn’t notice, Tuesday was Keep Your Children Home Day – in other words, a nationwide childcare workers’…
Is Australia funding terrorism?
In the very last issue of The Spectator Australia David Adler wrote what could well turn out to be a…
Why modern-day feminism is inherently sexist
Despite the protest from Magda Szubanski that the golden statuette awarded at the Oscars needs to be more “non-binary”, I…
Anzac Day: the latest victim of green madness
Recently, RSL branches in Victoria announced a ban on old-school military vehicles at the state’s ANZAC day parade, supposedly due…
Diversity. Be in it.
Here is a modest proposal: practice what you preach. Take multiculturalism. Some of the biggest fans of ethnic and cultural…
Malgorithms
There is no disappointment so deep, no betrayal so wounding, as that felt by those who put their faith in…
Ten non-religious reasons against abortion
The subject of abortion is once again in the news. And significantly, Brisbane lawyer and incoming Queensland senator Amanda Stoker…
How we shirked our duty to offend
An axiom attributed to Leonardo da Vinci is that great artists steal. In that vein, I shamelessly steal from Spiked!…
Facebook, fakery and fraud
Stay away from a fool, for you will not find knowledge on their lips. The wisdom of the prudent is…
We don’t need a law about that
Inevitably, when advocating for freedom of any kind, one is accused of being a champion of certain lifestyle choices or…
Green on the outside, rancid on the inside
Illogical, ignorant, infantile, irrational and irrelevant, the Greens are a rancid infestation in Australia’s political kitchen, as they proved recently…
Conservative compassion
One of the strange quirks of modern politics is the perception that it’s the Left who are concerned with justice…
Santa Sabina school’s “religious revolution”
The trousers were the tip of the iceberg at Sydney Catholic girls schools Santa Sabina College. With the trousers down,…
Since when was common sense discrimination?
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton’s remarks about white South African farmers, including possibly granting them special immigration consideration, evoked charges…
Should Australia engage more with China?
We live in an age of unprecedented geopolitical upheaval in the Asia Pacific. The American and Western hegemony in the…
