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Awarding Olympic medals must end – it reinforces a binary and elitist worldview
One of the nation’s peak sporting bodies, the Australian Centre for Equity and Excellence in Sport, has issued a warning…
Tough love: how lockdown’s got us painting rocks and why that’s not all bad
A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…
Why women are at risk from the campaign to abolish sex
The latest human rights push is the inalienable right to keep your birth sex private. We all have to pretend that we…
The zero risk approach is driving us up the wall
Road deaths are far too high and need to be reduced at all costs. Despite police action, people still speed…
A public holiday for a cancelled event? You can’t get much more corona-crazy
Those south of the Queensland border may have heard of the Brisbane Exhibition — or the Ekka as it colloquially…
The Drum sounds the ABC’s death knell
Propriety, and the laws of defamation, prevent me from writing about ABC TV’s The Drum that which so richly deserves…
Newspoll: Governments usually win one election more than they deserve. Was 2019 one of them?
Today’s Newspoll is dire for the Prime Minister. The two-party preferred split of 53:47 is bad enough but can be…
Why conservatives should support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
At the 1897 Adelaide Federation Convention, Alfred Deakin implored delegates to see themselves as ‘trustees for posterity, for the unborn…
Their ABC and ‘allegations’, rather than ‘facts’
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it…
We are stamping on our children’s future with our attempts to stamp out Covid
It used to be an intergenerational compact, an unwritten commandment, that we will give to our children better than we…
Police blow the whistle on the weaponisation of domestic violence claims
Interesting skirmish a few weeks ago over a police union submission to the federal inquiry into family law. In their…
Dear (as in expensive) political leaders: you have failed
The fact that people vastly overestimate the number of deaths from Covid as recent polls have shown, is a signal…
Electric vehicles are bad for our economic climate
Lockdowns and regulations are plaguing Australians and putting a damper on our moods. Many are bearing the brunt of unemployment—or…
The Greens still seem to like a lot about Julian Burnside
Despite accusations of anti-Semitism directed at St Julian of Burnside and his blessed bride Kate Durham, the Greens still seem…
Using your equity in retirement
Australia has had a national age pension since 1909. Introduced by the government of prime minister Andrew Fisher, it mostly…
Be fit to fight Covid coercion. Get vaccinated
It is quite clear that governments around the world are going to mandate vaccine passports for certain purposes in coming…
You go, girl! Laurel Hubbard and the other trans Olympians
You’ve got to give it to Shania Twain. When she belted out her 1997 hit, Man! I feel like a woman! she…
Generation Z is fighting back against the left establishment
In 2020 I served as school captain at one of Sydney’s all-boys catholic schools. This position took me to the…
A judge has found the National Cabinet isn’t a cabinet, so let’s put it out of its misery
Senator Rex Patrick is your typical independent Senate crossbench ambulance chaser. Having been carried into parliament on the long-receded Nick…
How the Daniel Andrews approach leads to further lockdowns
When Daniel Andrews — like other premiers — asks for a specific vaccine to fast track Victoria’s vaccination programs and…
Plague rats
Dear readers, it has been a while. I’d like to invite you all out for a coffee, but under the…
What’s woke this week?
I increasingly feel like I’m in the middle of that darkly satiric Edgar Allan Poe story, The System of Doctor…
Wham, bam, thank you Dan! Welcome to Lockdown VI
Victorians are about to plunge into Lockdown VI. Lockdowns are like The Fast and the Furious series of films. The…
The West must disown Big Tech Big Brother
Almost three weeks ago, Twitter suspended The Spectator Australia for 12 hours for a Tweet that paraphrased that wildly incendiary…
Canberra’s coronawaffle
Prime Minister Scott Morrison cannot make a clear and succinct statement. He is a word-waffler — and this is a…
