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WorkSafe takes a second bite of the cherry

25 July 2022 1:42 pm

WorkSafe announced it filed charges against the body corporate of St. Basil’s Age Care, over alleged breaches to the Occupational…

Danistan: extending or exiling an era

25 July 2022 10:00 am

An era is about to continue or end in Victoria. I preference the latter. Victorians are a measured lot and…

Bill Shorten is right about mothers

25 July 2022 7:00 am

If Australian government records are to be believed, 55 men gave birth to babies in 2014-15. Those are the official…

Politicians destroy nuclear when the world needs it most

25 July 2022 4:00 am

Human advancement has rested on harnessing increasingly dense sources of energy from non-human origins. Animal power, burning wood, wind technology,…

Inequality resides at the heart of the sexual revolution

24 July 2022 7:00 am

The thesis of the sexual revolution was a fantasy. We need to return to reality.

Big Pharma: a petroleum-dependent industry under attack by climate warriors

23 July 2022 10:00 am

There is a war brewing between the socialist-lite mask-wearing kids who demand free healthcare and the socialist-lite mask-wearing kids gluing…

Hero or Villain? The plot to cancel Captain Cook

23 July 2022 8:00 am

Attempts are being made to cancel Samuel Griffith from his prominent role in Australian history, inevitably pushed by the university…

Novak Djokovic versus the Rule of Law

23 July 2022 4:00 am

Earlier this week, our magazine weekly columnist, Ramesh Thakur, made an impassioned defence of tennis champion and unvaccinated Serb, Novak…

Burning biomass fuels climate stupidity

22 July 2022 10:00 am

Some of us have always known that climate hysteria causes malfunctions in the brain. (The precise medical term is ‘Subject…

Rugby Australia needs to chill out

22 July 2022 7:00 am

Rugby Australia has threatened to ban a football fan for yelling abuse at England coach Eddie Jones on Sunday night.…

Politicians are not evolving as fast as Covid

21 July 2022 1:00 pm

It has been more than two years since China unleashed Covid onto the world, and with no end in sight,…

Knock-knock: offensive by nature

21 July 2022 10:00 am

Recently, someone told me a knock-knock joke, and I deemed it offensive and insensitive. The subject matter was itself not…

Djokovic and the US Open: let him play

21 July 2022 7:00 am

Novak Djokovic has won Wimbledon, the second major tennis tournament this year to be plagued by self-inflicted wounds following the…

Has Australia become an elective dictatorship?

21 July 2022 4:00 am

The responses of the Australian government to the Covid pandemic had an overwhelming impact on the enjoyment of our basic…

Russia didn’t get the memo about pronouns

20 July 2022 12:00 pm

Russian officials are openly mocking America’s embrace of transgenderism – taunting America to ‘keep going’. The ridicule came after a…

Australia’s renewable energy superpower fantasy

20 July 2022 11:00 am

One of Prime Minister Albanese’s favourite three-word slogans is ‘renewable energy superpower’. It comes from Ross Garnaut’s 2019 policy propaganda…

Biden: Divider-in-Chief

20 July 2022 8:00 am

One of the media’s beloved titles for President Donald Trump was ‘Divider-in-Chief’. Well-deserved at times, the moniker was even used…

Australia’s Catholic Church: politics, paganism, and pandering

20 July 2022 4:00 am

The Catholic Church is one of the oldest institutions in the world, and it has long held to the values…

Australia in race to host COP 29 in 2024

19 July 2022 12:11 pm

It’s the prize no sane country wants to win, but Labor – egged on by the Pacific Islands – is…

What do we really know about the IPCC?

19 July 2022 10:00 am

Having concluded the latest Climate Change talk-fest – the United Nations COP26 in 2021 in Glasgow – the confected outburst…

Victorian Liberals: left of Labor?

19 July 2022 7:00 am

Since when does a centre-right political party win office by proposing policies even further to the left than its centre-left…

Speaking on Cancel Culture at Friedman

19 July 2022 4:00 am

Last weekend, Sydney played host to the Friedman conference where politicians, centre-right activists, and writers – including many Speccie contributors –…

Hollywoke hypocrites: Chinese & Muslim critics of Disney’s ‘Lightyear’ told their beliefs are ‘backward’

18 July 2022 12:00 pm

Socio-political critics of Pixar’s progressive flop, Lightyear have been mocked as 14 countries banned the ‘kids animated film’ for its…

China rising: do we need a Defence Levy?

18 July 2022 10:00 am

[ This is part 3 of a series. Read part 1 and part 2 ] The truth lurking under the political spin is that…

Climate Change, the art of sophistry

18 July 2022 7:00 am

Sophistry is the use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving. Climate alarmists who know the…