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Why we never win

10 December 2022 9:00 am

Unless there is major ideological and structural reform, the future for the Liberals and the broad centre-right is bleak 

Therapeutic justice: the unreligion of our age

10 December 2022 7:00 am

I am not a lawyer, but if I take at face value the description of a number of cases in…

Under-age voting is coming

9 December 2022 12:30 pm

The current push from the Greens to change the voting age relates to self-interest, rather than the interest of the…

Long Covid: hysteria that won’t die

9 December 2022 8:00 am

If you think that the Covid madness is over, think again. I’m not talking about China, where people are being…

Parks Australia: when bureaucracy turns racist

9 December 2022 6:00 am

Imagine telling a Brit of migrant origin that they’re forbidden from visiting the White Cliffs of Dover because they are…

Freedom, the Liberal Party, and Fleetwood Mac

9 December 2022 4:00 am

Last week, tragedy struck two institutions I love. Both of them are devoted to an idea I’m passionate about: freedom.…

Beyond the reach of government

8 December 2022 2:51 pm

Everyone these days is pretty sure they’re right, no matter which side of any given debate they are on. There…

The coming crash of the climate cult

8 December 2022 12:17 pm

The Climate Cult worships two green idols – electric vehicles and wind-solar energy. This is part of a futile UN…

Conservatism after the Victorian election

8 December 2022 8:00 am

Here is a simple truth: the Liberal Party in Victoria could not defeat the most corrupt, incompetent, and debt-ridden Labor…

170 patients that changed everything

8 December 2022 7:00 am

Few people realise that the Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA)of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine/BNT 162b2 was granted on the efficacy data…

The Left’s racism against Senator Price: a voice that refuses to obey

8 December 2022 4:00 am

In the name of equity and inclusion, Australia’s marquee satire publication, The Betoota Advocate, has written an astonishing (and some may say racist) article…

Ouch! The Libs shoot themselves in the foot (again)

7 December 2022 11:00 am

Is the Liberal Party a lost cause? It certainly seems that way. Every time the party has a chance to…

The Left’s selective catastrophising

7 December 2022 8:00 am

Catastrophising comes easily to climate change activists. Our new monarch, King Charles III, declared in 2009 we had only ‘100…

ESG: climate virtue bleeding super dry

7 December 2022 7:00 am

Business, where the profit motive is explicitly dominant and where the hundreds of millions of direct and indirect owners want…

New Zealand’s Covid inquiry: reckoning or rubber-stamp?

7 December 2022 4:00 am

New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, this week announced a Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s Covid response. ‘A…

Courage is the cure

6 December 2022 1:24 pm

The Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS) is on a mission to restore medical free speech in this country and ensure…

The carbon crusades of Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese

6 December 2022 10:00 am

New Zealand plans to introduce a fart tax in 2025. The problem is, the Ardern government hasn’t discussed the detail…

Covid confusion: reckless and illogical governments

6 December 2022 9:00 am

Coming from a background in Big Pharma and having been a senior pharmaceutical consultant in clinical trials and drug regulatory…

Death: a dystopian love affair

6 December 2022 7:00 am

Canada’s dystopian love affair with State-assisted dying grows more chilling by the day. Fashion house La Maison Simons has produced…

The ‘green leap’ forward

6 December 2022 4:00 am

The Dutch Minister for Nitrogen, Christianne van der Wal, announced that 3,000 farms will be forced to sell their properties…

No beer, hugs, kisses, or gays: international crims welcome…?

5 December 2022 11:33 am

The World Cup in Qatar has been wallowing in controversy since it was first awarded twelve years ago. And the…

Labor’s absurd censure of ScoMo

5 December 2022 9:00 am

Following the inquiry by Judge Virginia Bell, Anthony Albanese has done the obvious political thing and moved to censure the…

Tasmania: where women’s rights never arrived

5 December 2022 7:30 am

Another disturbing judgment from a tribunal in Tasmania shows that our judicial system in Australia is corrupted with a virus…

Vale Niamh Finneran Loader

5 December 2022 7:10 am

It is with a heavy heart that I deliver the news that a fellow contributor to The Spectator Australia, Niamh Finneran…

Carbon emissions are driving children online

5 December 2022 7:00 am

Editor’s note: this is Niamh Finneran Loader’s final piece, published after her tragic death over the weekend. A tribute from…