Home & away notes
Over the space of a decade or so, a number of young Australians managed to bring themselves forcefully to international…
Telford and the Left
The sleepy town of Telford, England, is home to the latest bout of grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation. On…
Russian diary
On the Russian Presidential Polling Day Sunday, I departed Tullamarine at dawn with a fierce hot northerly blowing, already plus…
Save the last dance for Li
As a child growing up in rural China during the punishing years of the Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin felt like…
Australian notes
On tour with Jordan I got the phone call back in January. The man on the other end of the…
Kathryn Stott
It may not be paradise in every respect, but Townsville in mid-winter could be a reasonable approximation. The Australian Festival…
Aux bien pensants
Mug the frugal, turnbull teaches shorten The standing of politicians has never been lower. They’re widely regarded as self-interested, incompetent,…
Resurrection unlikely
Could there be a better time of year than this for the Australian cricket team to decide to crucify themselves,…
The cricket crybabies have won
Now that the crybabies have won what are we to do? Steve Smith cried on national television and so did…
Plain packaging: fraud, farce and failure
The latest investigation by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission reveals that plain packaging laws, introduced in late 2012 and designed to make…
Official: it’s racist to care about black kids being abused
What identity politics hath wrought: Sunrise is under investigation by the broadcasting watchdog over a segment on Aboriginal families that was…
Union bashing is easy but we want prosperity
Whenever a problem arises a moment of reflection — or, in reality, a time to criticise and complain — is…
“Life is short but smokers’ lives are shorter. Legalise vaping now.”
The much-anticipated House of Representatives committee report on e-cigarettes and personal vaporisers – in other words, vaping – was tabled…
Populate or perish: destroying the village to save it from perishing?
Greg Sheridan’s article “Great leaders knew immigration truth: populate or perish” from Saturday’s Weekend Australian assails “the decisive turn by…
Childcare costs? Thank unions and government
In case you didn’t notice, Tuesday was Keep Your Children Home Day – in other words, a nationwide childcare workers’…
Is Australia funding terrorism?
In the very last issue of The Spectator Australia David Adler wrote what could well turn out to be a…
Why modern-day feminism is inherently sexist
Despite the protest from Magda Szubanski that the golden statuette awarded at the Oscars needs to be more “non-binary”, I…
Anzac Day: the latest victim of green madness
Recently, RSL branches in Victoria announced a ban on old-school military vehicles at the state’s ANZAC day parade, supposedly due…
Diversity. Be in it.
Here is a modest proposal: practice what you preach. Take multiculturalism. Some of the biggest fans of ethnic and cultural…
Malgorithms
There is no disappointment so deep, no betrayal so wounding, as that felt by those who put their faith in…
Ten non-religious reasons against abortion
The subject of abortion is once again in the news. And significantly, Brisbane lawyer and incoming Queensland senator Amanda Stoker…
How we shirked our duty to offend
An axiom attributed to Leonardo da Vinci is that great artists steal. In that vein, I shamelessly steal from Spiked!…
Facebook, fakery and fraud
Stay away from a fool, for you will not find knowledge on their lips. The wisdom of the prudent is…
We don’t need a law about that
Inevitably, when advocating for freedom of any kind, one is accused of being a champion of certain lifestyle choices or…
Green on the outside, rancid on the inside
Illogical, ignorant, infantile, irrational and irrelevant, the Greens are a rancid infestation in Australia’s political kitchen, as they proved recently…
