Political notes
Refusing to accept the vote One sign of the collapse of political order in a country is the refusal of…
Sports notes
James Allan’s notes last week about unenviable aspects of Australian tennis certainly struck a chord with me. When in Sydney,…
Brown study
The Spectator Australia Electoral Reform Unit, working in secrecy behind its heavily fortified premises at Belconnen in the ACT, has…
Postmodernism’s moral low ground
Are we fighting postmodernists with one hand tied behind our backs? Intellectual battles are the cognitive lifeblood of a healthy…
A cry from the heart
The true extent of what we are all up against in the battle against Indigenous family violence has recently reared…
Simon Collins
Two weeks ago on this page I complained about how rarely mainstream Australian media uses the word ‘masculinity’ without the…
Three years in an Aussie re-education camp
The next cohort of prospective undergraduates who plan on studying Australia’s history at university in 2019 should scrutinise the subject…
Shorten trumped
Western leaders who believe in state sovereignty and secure borders and who have the strength and courage to fight for…
Paul Dyer
In 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) made a rather grand job application to Christian Ludwig, the Margrave of Brandenburg. He…
Kenneth’s bank job
Bank bashing is a national pastime in Australia and the proliferation of parliamentary inquiries into financial services – there have…
Tolerance – or else
The organisers of the Hardcore Till I Die festival and the managers of Sydney Newtown Hotel both deserve credit for…
Clive Palmer’s excellent adventure
Clive Palmer seems to be pissing off everybody of late. First, it was his billboards, then unsolicited text messages, and…
Wasn’t the Royal Commission about the banks? Why give them more power?
Judging by his Final Report, one could be forgiven for concluding that Commissioner Hayne has little confidence in the common…
Daniel Andrews’ gender agenda suddenly can’t decide if it’s Arthur or Martha
Daniel Andrews this week announced with self-righteous glee that his government plans to make ‘any practice or treatment that seeks…
Crazy Rich Commies
There nothing new or surprising in the fact that the self-proclaimed friends of the workers are living it up while…
The Gordian union?
As the remaining time for Britain to negotiate a deal before it leaves the EU on the March 29 continues…
Unequal work, equal pay – because you feel you deserve it
Asda, British supermarket giant, has recently lost the right to appeal a bizarre ruling regarding its allegedly discriminatory remuneration practices.…
Immigration: the house price elephant in the room
It speaks to the shallowness of Australian democracy that the obvious is now very seldom spoken. A wide range of…
The fall of the machines
About 30 years ago, General Motors experimented with fully automating a car factory. An immense design effort was implemented to…
Fr Rod: don’t give them your poor yearning to breathe free
Gosford’s finest continues to deliver, this time with this insightful critique of American society gleaned from, presumably, The Hunger Games:…
The Trump delusion syndrome sufferers’ Samson strategy
Trump obsessives believe the current United States political imbroglio is all about a wall between that country and Mexico. Added…
We need to curse less and dam more
Water conservation peaked in Australia in 1972. Our last big dam was Wivenhoe, in Queensland, built 35 years ago. Elsewhere…
Can you bank on Banks?
Renegade Liberal MP turned independent, Julia Banks, continues to tease. Having spat the Liberal dummy over the self-immolation of Malcolm…
Why does Jordan Peterson bother with our nation of naysayers?
You must not speak of same-sex relationships nor criticise the church nor blaspheme against God! Why? Because it causes offence!…
