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

Twitter birds navigate Musk’s wind turbine blades

28 October 2022 12:14 pm

Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters this week carrying a sink. Presumably, that’s where he’s going to store the tears…

The Lady’s for turning … and Britain is burning

28 October 2022 11:00 am

One knows better than to compare today’s politicians to great figures of the past. But in the case of Liz…

Which employers still have vaccine mandates?

28 October 2022 8:00 am

Australian citizens interact with businesses every day, but whether those businesses have policies requiring their staff to have proof of…

NY Supreme Court: unvaccinated and vindicated

28 October 2022 6:00 am

Ever since vaccine mandates reared their ugly heads in 2021, countless unvaccinated individuals have lost their jobs for remaining steadfast…

Environmental extremists: iconoclasts without a cause

28 October 2022 4:00 am

It is self-evident that even among those of us who are not religious, there is an instinct towards the numinous…

The centre-right should get on their bikes

27 October 2022 2:37 pm

The bicycle is the machine that best represents conservative and libertarian worldviews, and we cannot let our bikes be co-opted…

NZ passes anti-free speech language compliance law

27 October 2022 11:00 am

New Zealand Labour, supported by the Greens, and Māori Party, have passed ‘plain language’ legislation, which will require all branches of…

Cheap renewables, rising power bills?

27 October 2022 8:00 am

I cannot work out which is more incredible – the claims this government makes, or the fact that this government…

Net Zero: keeping Australia in the dark

27 October 2022 6:00 am

It is claimed that Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘You can fool all the people some of the time and some…

The political asymmetry of Covid

27 October 2022 4:00 am

A couple of days ago, Greg Sheridan had a piece in The Australian in which he argued: ‘Covid has been diabolical…

Hackers! Hackers! Hackers!

26 October 2022 12:00 pm

The Medibank hack (and others) is a warning about Digital Identity and the future of privacy

Where are electric cars going?

26 October 2022 12:00 pm

Countries are keen to out-virtue-signal each other with electric cars and their contribution to reducing Climate Change; what is plainly…

Tax changes our behaviour

26 October 2022 10:00 am

Most people resent paying tax. Though it’s a sentiment just about everyone can relate to, the economic argument against tax…

Are progressives the new colonisers?

26 October 2022 8:00 am

History shows that whoever utters the phrase ‘be on the right side of history’ often ends up eating their words.…

What about Azerbaijan?

26 October 2022 6:00 am

The following is a letter in reply to What about Armenia? published September 28. The Spectator Australia is not in…

The modern Right’s Cold War moment

26 October 2022 4:00 am

To the amusement of other classmates at the adults’ Saturday Vietnamese class, one tutor and I often wind up trying…

Confessions of a 10-year-old revolutionary

25 October 2022 11:00 am

As a 10-year-old young ‘pioneer’ in communist-controlled Hungary, I hated the red kerchief I was forced to wear under threat…

Microsoft unveils the latest Pride flag

25 October 2022 10:00 am

The Pride flag has had more updates than Windows, so it makes sense for Bill Gates and his team to…

The new big end of town

25 October 2022 9:00 am

There is this perception that all that is bad about business comes from the ‘Big End of Town’. Books and…

The politics of tea

25 October 2022 7:00 am

There is no greater beneficiary of ‘evil colonialism’ and British Empire than the local Woke tea shop. That doesn’t stop…

Confidence through censorship: The (medical) Ministry of Truth

25 October 2022 4:00 am

On Wednesday, October 12, the Queensland Labor government – with support from the LNP opposition – passed a dystopian and…

Electric Vehicles promise to be ‘safe and effective’

24 October 2022 3:38 pm

Making the rest of your apartment building cough up the cost for your electric vehicle has rightly become a point…

Victoria’s rotten body politic

24 October 2022 11:00 am

Democratic government is no longer about delivering election promises. Forget the promises. Forget even the broken promises – there are…

The failed war on pot

24 October 2022 10:00 am

It’s hard to overstate the social upheaval associated with the prohibition of alcohol in America a century ago. The sorry…

Andrews’ Leninist approach to power

24 October 2022 7:00 am

Last week, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews paraded his inner Lenin. He attacked Victoria’s privately owned coal generation businesses, claiming that…