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Love and Thoms: this isn’t closing the gap, but entrenching our differences

14 February 2020 1:11 pm

Friends, Romans, Countrymen – Lend me your ears and hear my words.  This week the High Court of Australia handed…

Don’t say our pollies are wising up to the benefits of small scale nuclear energy?

14 February 2020 5:00 am

There is probably only one thing that makes conservatives happier than seeing the lunatic Green left meltdown over climate change,…

Score-settling does not deal with veteran suicide

13 February 2020 6:00 pm

Ivan Coronel Hains died “suddenly” in Sydney on April 18, 1952, aged 61. A medical doctor, he had held senior…

Sorry doomsayers, but the science says there’s now no climate emergency

13 February 2020 3:12 pm

It is somewhat ironic – though in some ways unsurprising – that at the time when the climate change activism…

Dark Emu, the High Court and our crude new racial hierarchy

13 February 2020 1:31 pm

“[We hope for] a future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with…

Is there a Democrat who can defeat The Donald?

13 February 2020 11:30 am

After an embarrassing Iowa caucus, the smoother New Hampshire primary did more to determine who will not become the nominee…

Millennial? Stressed? Then stop the spending habits that are stressing you out

13 February 2020 5:00 am

Every generation thinks that they have had it tougher than the one before them. Each generation faces the challenges of…

How the High Court has endorsed identity politics in Love and Thomas

12 February 2020 7:43 pm

On Tuesday the High Court of Australia has handed down a decision that for all intents and purposes looks like…

Energy prices? Stop throwing money into the wind and deregulate

12 February 2020 3:04 pm

Through an open and competitive energy market, Australian can achieve the holy energy trinity: cheap, clean, and reliable. In 2020,…

Social media’s scorpion culture

12 February 2020 5:00 am

The human experiment that has been hyper-connectivity facilitated by social media platforms tends to confirm Sartre’s statement that hell is…

Drop the cash ban. Let’s keep legal tender legal

11 February 2020 7:15 pm

When does the end justify the means? One answer to that question comes in legislation currently snaking its way through the…

Will Mr Invisible destroy the Morrison government?

11 February 2020 3:30 pm

What a shemozzle. A week after the mad uncle, Barnaby Joyce, tilted unsuccessfully to snatch the National party leadership back…

George Calombaris: now all too many of those underpaid workers will also soon be unemployed

11 February 2020 11:08 am

I love eating out. I love good food, but I hate food wankery. I hate food fads. I hate the…

ScoMo might be stumbling, but Albo’s caught between two stools

11 February 2020 5:00 am

It’s no secret that the Australian Labor Party is having elect-ile dysfunction problems. Since Paul Keating’s victory in 1993, the party has…

And the Oscar for the most fatuous virtue signalling goes to…

10 February 2020 8:26 pm

Sometimes all you can do is let them speak — and say nothing in reply. Just one of the memorable…

Want to help ScoMo win the next election? Join the Greens

10 February 2020 6:00 pm

So the Greens have heard of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Good for them. What they don’t appear to have…

Just what our schools need: Clementine Ford

10 February 2020 1:57 pm

Australian schools are struggling. Performance results are going backwards. In global terms, Australia is losing to Kazakhstan in the report…

Memo Canberra: stop your party games and get on with governing

10 February 2020 11:03 am

A week is a long time in politics.   Last week started with Bridget McKenzie becoming the Blockbuster Video of politics:…

How the rise of environmental politics is threatening traditional allegiances – and world trade

10 February 2020 5:00 am

Some 172 years ago Karl Marx opened the modern era of politics in proclaiming that a spectre was haunting Europe.…

Adam Bandt loves Frozen? But what about the climate emergency?

9 February 2020 3:21 pm

Yes, folks. It’s true. Adam Bandt loves Frozen. Or Frozen II, to be precise. The Greens leader has done what…

How Oxfam’s propaganda starves the poor

9 February 2020 12:48 pm

Interesting musings from the economist Maarten Boudry on the topic of inequality, in a post titled “Is extreme wealth a…

A friendly word to the Never Trumpers

8 February 2020 3:49 pm

In an article sure to sort the sheep from the goats, Dr Michael L Brown (who is about to tour…

Ms Nina Funnell

7 February 2020 4:20 pm

On January 30 The Spectator Australia published an online opinion piece by Ms Bettina Arndt containing references to journalist Ms Nina Funnell.…

It’s time to give enterprise bargaining the boot

7 February 2020 4:01 pm

ACTU secretary Sally McManus believes Australia’s enterprise bargaining system is “broken”. While Jennifer Westacott, CEO of the Business Council of Australia…

The irrational faith of the Church of Climate Catastrophe

7 February 2020 5:00 am

On Q&A on September 23 last year, Kerry O’Brien answered a question from an audience member about climate change. Speaking…