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

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…

170 patients that changed everything

8 December 2022 7:00 am

Few people realise that the Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA)of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine/BNT 162b2 was granted on the efficacy data…

The Left’s racism against Senator Price: a voice that refuses to obey

8 December 2022 4:00 am

In the name of equity and inclusion, Australia’s marquee satire publication, The Betoota Advocate, has written an astonishing (and some may say racist) article…

Jane Fonda: climate change and the UN’s ‘racial sacrifice zones’

7 December 2022 2:49 pm

Actress Jane Fonda is trending on social media for the hilarious anti-science belief that racism and misogyny are causing climate…

Ouch! The Libs shoot themselves in the foot (again)

7 December 2022 11:00 am

Is the Liberal Party a lost cause? It certainly seems that way. Every time the party has a chance to…

The Left’s selective catastrophising

7 December 2022 8:00 am

Catastrophising comes easily to climate change activists. Our new monarch, King Charles III, declared in 2009 we had only ‘100…

ESG: climate virtue bleeding super dry

7 December 2022 7:00 am

Business, where the profit motive is explicitly dominant and where the hundreds of millions of direct and indirect owners want…

New Zealand’s Covid inquiry: reckoning or rubber-stamp?

7 December 2022 4:00 am

New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, this week announced a Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s Covid response. ‘A…

Courage is the cure

6 December 2022 1:24 pm

The Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS) is on a mission to restore medical free speech in this country and ensure…

The carbon crusades of Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese

6 December 2022 10:00 am

New Zealand plans to introduce a fart tax in 2025. The problem is, the Ardern government hasn’t discussed the detail…

Covid confusion: reckless and illogical governments

6 December 2022 9:00 am

Coming from a background in Big Pharma and having been a senior pharmaceutical consultant in clinical trials and drug regulatory…

Death: a dystopian love affair

6 December 2022 7:00 am

Canada’s dystopian love affair with State-assisted dying grows more chilling by the day. Fashion house La Maison Simons has produced…

The ‘green leap’ forward

6 December 2022 4:00 am

The Dutch Minister for Nitrogen, Christianne van der Wal, announced that 3,000 farms will be forced to sell their properties…

No beer, hugs, kisses, or gays: international crims welcome…?

5 December 2022 11:33 am

The World Cup in Qatar has been wallowing in controversy since it was first awarded twelve years ago. And the…

Labor’s absurd censure of ScoMo

5 December 2022 9:00 am

Following the inquiry by Judge Virginia Bell, Anthony Albanese has done the obvious political thing and moved to censure the…

Tasmania: where women’s rights never arrived

5 December 2022 7:30 am

Another disturbing judgment from a tribunal in Tasmania shows that our judicial system in Australia is corrupted with a virus…

Vale Niamh Finneran Loader

5 December 2022 7:10 am

It is with a heavy heart that I deliver the news that a fellow contributor to The Spectator Australia, Niamh Finneran…