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The left’s ‘tyranny of tolerance’ means we need religious freedom laws

25 November 2019 3:05 pm

As Attorney-General Christian Porter aims to bring his Religious Discrimination Bill before Parliament in the first week of December, critics…

First Tibet. Then Xinjiang. Next Hong Kong?

25 November 2019 12:02 pm

Recent reporting of a 400-page leak from within the Chinese Communist Party — dubbed The Xinjiang Papers — confirms previous accounts of the…

The other extinction rebellion: against the extinction of real learning in our schools

25 November 2019 5:00 am

The(ir) ABC appear shocked to find that conservatives in Australia are pushing back against leftism in the classroom. “One Nation…

Will two tigers clash over Sri Lanka – India and China?

24 November 2019 5:23 pm

Elections in the subcontinent often have a ‘nothing to see here’ feeling, mainly because, through a heritage of colonial rule,…

Why the left’s beef about the Reef?

24 November 2019 11:01 am

We live in an era when it is politically incorrect to say the Great Barrier Reef is doing fine, except…

Nobody is above the law in the United States – except a million or so illegal immigrants

23 November 2019 4:56 pm

Watching the Democrats haul their impeachment caravan across Washington these past days I was struck by the punctuation marks in…

Dear XYs, we love you

22 November 2019 4:00 pm

I bloody love men. I love almost everything about them: the banter, the directness, the chivalry and the everyday interactions…

Memo MPs: how have you forgotten 60,000 years of bushfire prevention?

22 November 2019 1:00 pm

The current weather and wildfire situation is neither unprecedented nor unexpected. These latest holocausts are a direct consequence of the…

Christian Porter: no more free speech, thank you very much

22 November 2019 5:00 am

Despite all the arguments made and support garnered for a constitutional amendment that would guarantee our freedom of speech and…

What’s woke this week?

21 November 2019 6:01 pm

Non-binary wokeworld is at the top of our list this week with gender-inclusive gingerbreads out and proud. In other woke…

Fight for the Bight has jumped the shark

21 November 2019 2:44 pm

The Great Australian Bight has been the focus for two environmental campaigns this week. Typically for such campaigns, each seems…

We cannot let anti-Semitism spread here

21 November 2019 11:30 am

We are facing a growing threat of left-wing anti-Semitism that we must not allow to fester and infect Australia. Anti-Semitism…

Hong Kong is fighting for its very soul, Extinction Rebellion are throwing tantrums

21 November 2019 5:00 am

As tensions rise in Hong Kong and the protests become ever more violent, some have begun wavering in their support…

Fire up your writing engine – and win five grand

21 November 2019 2:19 am

Theme: ‘…or forever hold your peace’. It is with great delight that we announce the sixth annual Spectator Australia Thawley…

Why men need to start being men again 

20 November 2019 6:03 pm

“Australia’s ‘man drought’ is real — especially if you’re a Christian woman looking for love” was the attention-grabbing ABC headline…

The Beige Barrier Reef?

20 November 2019 4:03 pm

A key claim in a January 2016 article in the scientific journal, Nature, is that there are no longer any living colonies of Acropora…

Andrew Hastie and James Paterson are safe on our soil, but where are Liu Hu and Dong Rubin?

20 November 2019 1:21 pm

Senator James Paterson and West Australian Liberal Andrew Hastie have stoutly and correctly refused to ‘repent’ as requested by the…

EXCLUSIVE: To see the true state of the economy, just visit ScoMo’s electorate office

20 November 2019 5:00 am

In recent months growth in the Australian retail sector has slowed to a crawl, as shop owners struggle with the…

Beijing Bob bangs the wrong drum?

19 November 2019 6:03 pm

On Monday, ABC’s panel programme The Drum discussed Australia’s complicated relationship with China, and the Chinese Communist Party’s government decision…

The aged care outrage: if we can extend life, we must do it with dignity

19 November 2019 3:47 pm

Even before the royal commission, no one in Australia wanted to go into aged care. And little wonder. The interim…

Huawei: the telco that spooked Canberra – and the world

19 November 2019 11:53 am

If you were to travel back in time to October 2013, Huawei was a rising telecom equipment manufacturer from China…

Are the Greens and Change.org attempting to manipulate the family law inquiry?

19 November 2019 5:00 am

If they ever have a good week, last week was an unmitigated disaster for the Greens.   Deputy leader Larissa Waters…

Socialism 2.0: it’s now the wokeing versus the working class

18 November 2019 6:28 pm

Under the original Marxism, inspired by the bearded bum himself, socialist revolution would happen when the working class rose up…

Want to lift wages? Cut payroll tax

18 November 2019 2:22 pm

Slow economic growth and sluggish wages seem to be the new normal in Australia. This is not good enough, and…

When the woke go for broke and choke

18 November 2019 11:02 am

When the woke overcook the politically correct wokeness that they perpetually live in and instead get slapped down by normality,…