In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Vale, Simon Crean
Former Labor Leader Simon Crean (1949-2023) has died aged 74 while hiking in Germany. It has been reported that the…
Afghanistan’s fall and the flaw of unadulterated idealism
Two years since America’s calamitous and reckless withdrawal from Afghanistan, turning it over to the Taliban, the country has experienced…
I’m from the government, and I’m here to threaten you
These days I try to limit my TV viewing to sport. Every other genre, from drama to game-show to (especially)…
Why do we hate billionaires?
Sometimes it takes a crisis and its accompanying trending news headlines to reveal the murky ideological creatures swimming under the…
So… You want to buy a house?!
First, write down on paper the kind of house you want with the required number of rooms and toilets. Consider…
Woke-ifying the Essendon logo has bombed out
Generally, stakeholder consultation is a good thing to do; regular rapport being a great lubricant for productive relations between any…
Food security and property rights under threat in Western Australia
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (ACH) comes into effect on the July 1, 2023, in Western Australia (WA). Ostensibly it…
Partying like it’s 1901
When the bill to authorise a referendum on the Voice to Parliament was passed in the Senate on June 19,…
Parents kept in the dark about gender
Should a school or a student’s parents decide whether the child can be involved in gender transitioning? In Australia, material…
Children born alive bill: a moral test for our Parliament
At some point in the not-too-distant future, Australia’s federal Parliament will vote on whether a baby born alive during an…
You have been misled, Australia had a glorious Great Depression
Nothing in Australia is as Americanised as our perception of the 1930s and the Great Depression. The American reality of…
Grigory Klinishov: when men played with fire
‘The most nuked place on Earth…’ This is how the Semipalatinsk 18,500 square km testing ground on the Kazakh Steppe…
What are eco-fascist concepts doing in Australia’s law?
Recent Australian High Court rulings on issues of Aboriginality have taken a strange turn, and not for the better. It…
Sinking the nation
The Korean Ferry Sewol, at 20 years old, had already been on the Incheon to Jeju run for just over…
A tale of two leaders
This Flat White article is written by a guest author. This is a tale of two Liberal leaders in Australia:…
Central banks need laxer inflation targets
The cost of reducing inflation to 2 per cent seems too high
Thorpe: The King’s position is to wipe us out
Yesterday, the Australian Senate passed legislation enabling the Voice to Parliament referendum to take place in the next 6 months. Constitution…
Local scientists use AI to determine Covid is ‘extremely well adapted for humans’
‘Pandemic’ might be the first prominent ‘P-word’ one might use to describe the period between 2020-22, and now ‘polarising’ very…
Why Menzies still matters
Matthew Bach’s piece Menzies is dead. It’s time for the Liberals to forge a new path in The Age on June…
The West’s child exploitation scandal: groomers and abusers
One Nation is referring the Classification Board to a Senate inquiry regarding the creep of inappropriate content that has made…
The world’s next China will be … China. What will Australia be?
Are we really going to be the lucky country forever? Or are we actually the stupid self-indulgent teenage brat of…
The courage to ‘speak the truth’
A recent Spectator Australia article by Victorian Liberal MP Beverley McArthur, in which she criticised Geelong Council’s decision to cancel Australia…
Labor and the LNP wage war on women and girls
The war on girls and women intensified last week with the Palaszczuk Labor government becoming the latest state to pass gender…
Cooking with(out) gas: how green politics steals from Australians
If you believe the Greens and their ‘yes men’ posse of MSM papers, Australia is banning gas to save the…
Spectator TV Australia: the separation of powers and the Voice
From the IPA, Scott Hargreaves identifies an important legal issue of where the Voice sits on the separation of powers.…