In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Honouring the Covid Tsars
To mark the King’s Birthday weekend, the government has decided to kiss its own arse by honouring the Covid Tsars…
My message to UK voters considering voting Reform – don’t do it. You’ll regret it
For the last couple of years, I have been a fierce critic of the UK government. I am right-wing from…
Dutton’s praise of the e-Safety Commissioner spells disaster for the Liberals
There are days when I wonder if the idiom, ‘You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make…
Beyond Mad Max with dystopian AI
The dystopian future predicted in the Mad Max movie franchise may be closer than ever and it won’t take world…
WA needs public safety, not paperwork
One of the bravest people in Western Australia is Ariel Bombara, the daughter of the Floreat murderer. With deep insight…
Julian Assange: when two contradictory things are both true
This is my contribution to Alexandra Marshall’s challenge on Julian Assange… In the last year or so I’ve had a…
North Korea trash politics sky-high while our pollies are distracted
From Baengnyeongdo, South Korea: Here at what the Americans call PY-Do in the Yellow Sea, we are closer to North…
Democracy, sovereignty, and the common interest
The 19th Century Dutch Prime Minister and theologian, Abraham Kuyper, developed the theory known as the ‘sovereignty of the spheres’.…
Australia’s ‘triple-demic’ of Covid, flu, and RSV – experts baffled
The Covid policy wizards are baffled again. In Australia, some 98 per cent of the population have had at least…
We didn’t want Airbus Albo, but did we need him?
Around 32 per cent of Australian voters gave Labor their first preference in 2022. No ringing endorsement, despite a decade…
‘No means NO!’ The WHO’s power grab fails
We cannot and will not allow the WHO to create a health dictatorship
Renewable energy subsidies undermine our economy
Australia has seen a 20-year downward trend in productivity. Many other nations have seen similar trends and the cause is…
Human rights in the firing line?
As many readers will already be aware, the WA Labor government is currently attempting to make sweeping changes to Western…
ACTU: imposing union control over AI?
The ACTU apparently perceives AI as a ‘very big threat’ to workers, yet simultaneously aims to leverage it for higher…
Back to the future: workplace reform takes centre stage again
The industrial relations scare campaign has begun, as we count down to the next federal election. The recent leaking of…
Are the new weight loss drugs headed for listing on the PBS?
Ever since Covid, I’ve avoided making reference to the World Health Organisation (WHO) given how wrong it seemed to be…
A national crisis? Stop marching and start working
It was difficult to watch Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan join the national marches against gendered violence last month knowing she…
Net Zero burial of carbon dioxide?
The Queensland government recently placed a ban on pumping and dumping carbon dioxide into the rocks of the Great Artesian…
Anti-Israel stance emboldens anti-Semitism
Students and their hangers-on at the pro-Palestinian ‘glamping’ protest camps at our Group of 8 (G8) universities reveal an underlying…
Is Assange’s predicament a reason for conservatives to disagree?
On May 31, 2024, Alexandra Marshall, in her informative email message to subscribers of The Spectator Australia, noted that: ‘Assange…
iWant generation is a corporate feeding ground
‘Don’t care how, I want it now!’ shouts Veruka Salt, from the weighing room of good eggs and bad eggs…
