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

Today is a significant anniversary

10 September 2022 9:24 am

Saturday September 10 marks the anniversary of the banning of prescription of Ivermectin for Covid by our Therapeutic Good Administration…

The good and faithful servant Queen

9 September 2022 2:23 pm

‘Her Majesty The Queen’. With two male monarchs lined up to follow King Charles III, these four words are unlikely…

Christmas without the Queen will never be the same

9 September 2022 1:02 pm

For most of my life, I’ve tuned in to the Queen’s Christmas message. Her observations on the year gone would…

16 reasons why you need to buy an electric car

9 September 2022 9:00 am

You have a penchant for Tolstoy, but never got around to reading War and Peace. Now you can devour this…

Remembering Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II

9 September 2022 7:44 am

A sea of people are gathering in the twilight in front of Buckingham Palace – they will do so throughout…

Duty, service, and change: vale Queen Elizabeth II

9 September 2022 7:07 am

Prince Philip, it was said, had one duty above all others – to never let the Queen down. Her Majesty,…

Vale Her Majesty The Queen

9 September 2022 4:07 am

The Spectator Australia is deeply saddened and shaken by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at 96 after…

Show us the evidence, Minister

9 September 2022 3:00 am

The climate alarmism of Parliament is starting to melt

Rome Call: the Pope’s ‘ethical’ AI dystopia

8 September 2022 1:36 pm

It was a good call when Western Civilisation decided to erect a wall between religion and politics, protecting both spheres…

I feel, therefore I am

8 September 2022 11:44 am

The trans debate is not about rights, it is about truth

Catholic schools defy gender ‘affirmation’ laws

8 September 2022 10:00 am

The Catholic church showed real courage this week issuing advice to its schools to avoid sending kids for irreversible ‘gender…

Pakistan’s flood marks the return of ‘Climate Change’

8 September 2022 8:00 am

As the media become increasingly bored by Covid, it is time to return to an old favourite… The temperature is…

My government turned me into an ‘anti-vaxxer’

8 September 2022 4:00 am

A government power grab created the anti-vax movement

Can you hear me yet?

7 September 2022 12:37 pm

From Prime Minister Albanese – and so many of his cohorts – to media muppets loitering at every point of…

Dear Prime Minister, I am confused

7 September 2022 11:00 am

It might just be me, but I am confused about the first 100 days of our new Australian Prime Minister.…

The Territory Gap leaves Indigenous communities at a loss

7 September 2022 9:00 am

The Northern Territory has the worst economic outcomes for Indigenous people in remote or very remote locations of any state…

Biden unwisely wages war on MAGA

7 September 2022 4:00 am

It is popular on the left side of politics to charge people with the terrible crime of destroying democracy. Yet…

Theatre of the absurd

6 September 2022 1:30 pm

While Putin’s Russian Federation is one of the world’s most corrupt and cruel regimes, it quizzically continues to be obsessed…

Morrison: the spinner that lost

6 September 2022 12:00 pm

It is a shame Scott Morrison picked politics over cricket as a profession, as there are only so many ways…

Too many climate change think tanks

6 September 2022 10:00 am

In public discourse, there are those promoting the truth, and those looking to further their agenda. This is most obvious…

Anonymity for men falsely accused of rape

6 September 2022 8:00 am

‘No man should have to go what I went through,’ said the teary John Jarratt, after a jury took 15…

Cash is King (for now)

6 September 2022 4:00 am

Nicola Salvi’s Baroque Trevi Fountain sits in the centre of Rome. It is a relatively modern addition, built on the…

Sydney: no petrol or diesel cars, no gas, no future

5 September 2022 12:09 pm

New South Wales is in for an energy nightmare, and it makes no difference whether they vote Labor, Green, or…

The perversion of the English language

5 September 2022 12:00 pm

Language is a powerful vessel. It defines how we think, speak, write, and communicate. If you control language, you control…

Australia died when Zoe Buhler was handcuffed

5 September 2022 11:00 am

On September 2, 2020, a young pregnant woman in Ballarat, Zoe Buhler, had several police officers turn up at her…