PVO’s real problem with Scott Morrison? He won the 2019 election
Political commentator Peter van Onselen’s just-released book about the Prime Minister is, like eternal damnation, well worth avoiding if the…
Their ABC’s ‘victim’ of Anzac Day
Sunday was Anzac Day and, unsurprisingly, the ABC had a crack at this important commemoration for being *checks notes* not…
The banalisation of Islamist terror bodes badly for the West
Another day, another Islamist murder in France – this time, a 49-year-old policewoman fatally stabbed in the neck by a…
It’s time to scrap the Best Actress Oscar award
If you tune in to the Oscars during the early hours of Monday morning, you’ll note – along with sickly…
The vaccines worked. We can safely lift lockdown
We are writing as scientists and scholars concerned about the confused and contradictory directions currently being promoted in the management…
Hooray for Hollywood
I must confess that I have never enjoyed the off-stage antics of entertainers as I have since Trump was elected.…
Why do we envy nomads but treat Travellers so badly?
Oh for the open road! Who doesn’t want to abandon the suffocating suburbs – waking to an alarm at the…
Britain is not America
‘If people in Wales had access to as much media coverage of decisions that affected Wales as they do of…
Beijing’s agents tried to recruit me on LinkedIn
‘We are an international headhunter company, your profile attracted me,’ began the remarkable message I received on LinkedIn. My newfound interlocutor,…
Lest we forget… the planet is doomed
It’s getting to the stage where The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are becoming so unreadable you don’t even…
Will the Vanuatu tribes now worship Prince Charles?
In the days after the Duke of Edinburgh’s death, there was much eagerness to hear from a particular group of royal…
‘Collective’ shines a light on Romania’s deadly corruption problem
A gripping Romanian documentary has made history as the country’s first film ever to be nominated for an Oscar in…
Mark McGowan, WA’s lazy lord of the lockdown
For the second time in less than three months, the Wester Australian Premier Mark McGowan has locked up two million…
Spectator Australia TV: Lionel Shriver on Biden’s spending spree – and more
Five years ago, a novel warned of a dark, disturbing, and dystopian image of the US. Now in 2021, this…
The challenge of Anzac Day, 2021
The extended ADF community has possibly never been so divided against itself as it is right now. The ADF’s current…
Boris’s vaccine propaganda film jumps the gun
Westminster’s much anticipated summer blockbuster dropped last night: ‘A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story’ was released on 10…
Olympics’ organisers could regret banning ‘taking the knee’
Knee-taking and fist-raising protests have been banned at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, with the International Olympic Committee warning athletes who flout the rules…
The strange tale of NEOM: Saudi Arabia’s struggling desert megacity
Prince Mohammed bin Salman is desperate to shake Saudi Arabia’s addiction to oil. Its price has still not recovered from…
What’s woke this weekend?
The woke love rules. They have lots of them. And they’re zealous in policing them. Oops… sorry, I obviously can’t…
In praise of the LGB Alliance
Once upon a time an organisation was established to campaign for gay and lesbian rights. They faced opposition from the…
George Floyd was a victim of American gun culture
The triple guilty verdict on Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd was greeted with general relief across the…
Even the Q&A crowd have had it with Q&A
The ABC political talkfest Q&A recorded its lowest-ever ratings on the same night Malcolm Turnbull and Sarah Hanson-Young featured as…
Three words
Lest we forget. Three simple words that effortlessly roll off the tongue at this time of the year, but has…
Anzac notes
Time for Rankin and Taylor to be rewarded After 78 years of injustice, finally last December 18-year- old naval sailor…
