Australian letters
Flying circus Sir: Congratulations on 10 years of The Speccie Oz. As you note in your editorial, your contributors have…
Business/Robbery etc
As disasters go, 9/11 is now much less of a problem for the world than 9/15. There are no widespread…
Latham’s law
It’s the iron law of government administration. After a new bureaucracy is established, initially with limited powers and responsibilities, it…
Dispatches from the conservative frontline
In early 2017, as feminists in pink pussy hats marched in shocked outrage at the election of President Trump, a…
Revenge of the Queen Bees
Three girls in school tunics and battered hats are firing a machine gun in the quad. ‘Girls, girls, a little…
Disturbing
‘There was no body. There was no wrench. There was no evidence.’ The first two statements are undoubtedly true. Lawyers…
The war of the world
To properly understand the trend of world political events in recent years, it is essential to appreciate that a titanic…
Racism notes
Taking offence means we all walk on eggshells Recently, a controversial cartoon was drawn of a tennis champion which many…
Conservative notes
The Right is cleaving Take a look at right-of-centre political parties in the Anglosphere. In Canada things are bad, very…
Kate Morton
She was born in a small town in South Australia, later grew up on Tamborine Mountain and, when aged barely…
Brown study
The nomination by President Trump of Brett Kavanaugh as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the USA is very…
Aux bien pensants
You can’t walk on both sides of the street, PM If the Coalition were to go to the general election…
Turnbull’s Costa Concordia
In 2012, the liner Costa Concordia struck a rock just off the Italian coast. The huge ship capsized and sank,…
Bring back those dark, satanic mills
Once upon a time – actually, not that long ago, think the seventies — we actually had reasonably good, working…
Australia, the public sector workers’ paradise
How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you…
Will we hear of political bullying that doesn’t fit the Fairfax/ABC agenda?
While Australian federal politics remains discombobulated about alleged bullying in the parliamentary Liberal party, across the Ditch there’s been an…
The week in the world of MISANDRY
A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – because it’s all about women. The joke…
Are renewables more or less expensive? Er…
Is renewable electricity cheaper than coal? A recent article by Stephen Long for the ABC had the tag-line, “The tipping…
Smart move to keep smartphones out of classrooms
Smartphones have become a big educational talking point. This year, the French government banned the use of mobile phones in schools, while…
Will we follow the EU’s attacks on web freedom?
The European Parliament’s decision to approve two articles in the name of copyright protection sets a worrying precedent for our…
Boys won’t be boys
In the Oxford dictionary, the word ‘erasure’ is defined as: The act of removing or destroying something. (Synonyms of erasure…
Sorry Yassmin, but the market for Muslim moaners just got more crowded
It seems that the “young Muslim refugee woman with head covered who bags her adopted country and gets lionised for…
Do you feel triggered, snowflake?
The 2018 university environment is held hostage by political correctness and an Orwellian sense of authoritarianism and censorship. The long-purported…
Hunt finally sees sense on vaping
It took a while, but yesterday there was a strange burst of rationality from the ship of fools also known…
Red shoes, chat groups and #MeToo blinkers
Apparently at some point while many of us were expecting politicians to be running the country they were busying themselves…
