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

Energy collapse: it all begins with a market cap

14 December 2022 8:00 am

Thousands of years of experience – from the ancient Babylonians and Roman Emperor Diocletian, through to modern times – have…

Ben Falconer to appeal mandatory vaccination decision

14 December 2022 7:00 am

Spectator Australia readers will recall an application for judicial review of the mandatory vaccination orders in Western Australia in that…

There is nothing ‘smart’ about surveillance cities

14 December 2022 4:00 am

On December 3, Jo Nova penned an article, Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about…

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered

13 December 2022 12:31 pm

In the novel Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi gave a heart-wrenching account of her experience as an English teacher in the…

Western Australia’s conversion therapy ban

13 December 2022 8:00 am

A media statement made by the McGowan government on December 1, indicates the Labor-majority government is set to introduce a bill…

What I learnt from an Aboriginal Elder

13 December 2022 4:00 am

Recently, I sat down to interview an Aboriginal Elder from South Australia for the ExCandidates podcast, of which I am…

NSW Liberals: party democracy must be honoured

12 December 2022 3:23 pm

If you thought the factional war that tore apart the NSW Liberal Party on the eve of the recent federal…

Albo’s gas cap folly

12 December 2022 10:00 am

If the threat of gas rationing and blackouts on the first day of winter this year taught us anything it…

Pandora’s box of genes: Orwell’s DNA databases

12 December 2022 9:00 am

Earlier this year in July, one of Australia’s enduring mysteries – the Somerton Man – was solved. It was the story of…

Twitter’s smoking gun

12 December 2022 7:00 am

The latest batch of Twitter Files have dropped, and boy are they a doozy. Yet again, the conspiracy theorists have…

Rewiring the nation

12 December 2022 4:00 am

Mr Malinauskas, Premier of the Australian colony of South Australia, let slip in recent times that he believed there should…

Entering a new Dark Age

11 December 2022 9:00 am

‘Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.’ – Heinrich Heine History has always been problematic for tyrants.…

The Nanny State Awards

11 December 2022 7:00 am

This year’s highly un-coveted Nanny State Award was a tight contest, with a horde of strong contenders from around the…

There are no degrees of innocence

11 December 2022 5:00 am

The golden thread rule running through criminal law in our common law system is that a person accused of a…

Elton John’s Twitter curtain call

10 December 2022 3:04 pm

Elton John has quit twitter. The iconic singer/songwriter advised his 1.1 million followers on Twitter early this morning: ‘All my…

Why we never win

10 December 2022 9:00 am

Unless there is major ideological and structural reform, the future for the Liberals and the broad centre-right is bleak 

Therapeutic justice: the unreligion of our age

10 December 2022 7:00 am

I am not a lawyer, but if I take at face value the description of a number of cases in…

The Twitter Files: shadowbanning is real

10 December 2022 5:00 am

Headlines are awash with the accusation that former CEO Jack Dorsey – and other members of the former Twitter team…

Under-age voting is coming

9 December 2022 12:30 pm

The current push from the Greens to change the voting age relates to self-interest, rather than the interest of the…

Long Covid: hysteria that won’t die

9 December 2022 8:00 am

If you think that the Covid madness is over, think again. I’m not talking about China, where people are being…

Parks Australia: when bureaucracy turns racist

9 December 2022 6:00 am

Imagine telling a Brit of migrant origin that they’re forbidden from visiting the White Cliffs of Dover because they are…

Freedom, the Liberal Party, and Fleetwood Mac

9 December 2022 4:00 am

Last week, tragedy struck two institutions I love. Both of them are devoted to an idea I’m passionate about: freedom.…

Beyond the reach of government

8 December 2022 2:51 pm

Everyone these days is pretty sure they’re right, no matter which side of any given debate they are on. There…

The coming crash of the climate cult

8 December 2022 12:17 pm

The Climate Cult worships two green idols – electric vehicles and wind-solar energy. This is part of a futile UN…

Conservatism after the Victorian election

8 December 2022 8:00 am

Here is a simple truth: the Liberal Party in Victoria could not defeat the most corrupt, incompetent, and debt-ridden Labor…