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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…

Wisdom at Railway Square

6 February 2020 6:09 pm

The incongruity made as much of an impact as the poster itself, on a wall along with a few other…

What’s woke this week?

6 February 2020 4:01 pm

Dinner parties, animal rights and newly defined crimes against Mother Nature top the list of woke stories this week. But…

Their ABC, biased? Nepotistic? Nah!

6 February 2020 12:00 pm

Richard Alston was minister for communications for around half the life of the Howard government. In that portfolio, he made…

The financial world is ignoring growth for greenwash

6 February 2020 5:00 am

Despite global economic headwinds, international institutions — often with exclusively economic missions —are increasingly sliding their priorities out of whack.…

The fury of the left, explained

5 February 2020 7:02 pm

In a recent Spectator Australia article and subsequent interviews with Alan Jones and Graham Richardson, I summarised that ‘eucalypts are…

Barnaby Joyce won’t go away

5 February 2020 1:35 pm

As soon as the recent Nationals leadership spill confirmed that Michael McCormack would remain the leader of the party by…

The night I saw the real Adam Bandt

5 February 2020 12:01 pm

It was the autumn of 2013 and the Australian car industry was struggling under the weight of currency parity with…

Don’t focus on the focus groups

5 February 2020 5:00 am

There is a way to win elections that has nothing to do with performance. I am reminded of this when…

The American left’s fill-tilt lunacy

4 February 2020 5:45 pm

The phrase “Liberalism is a mental disorder” can be dismissed as simply a conservative smear. But as the current election…

All you need to know about Adam Bandt in just three Tweets

4 February 2020 2:40 pm

What do you need to know about Adam Bandt? He’s a twit. A hard-left twit from the inner-city — such…

Mad Uncle Barnaby stays in the attic

4 February 2020 12:03 pm

Politics is the natural stage for egotists, narcissists and attention-seekers. So it was no surprise today to see Barnaby Joyce,…

They do it tough in Adam Bandt territory

4 February 2020 11:18 am

Eight hundred and fifty dollars for a table? And all the proceeds go towards? Still nothing about where the proceeds…

Where’s that mojo, ScoMo?

4 February 2020 5:00 am

Talk about testing times. In the lead up to the federal election last May, Scott Morrison made an artform of…

In Canberra tonight: WTFF?

3 February 2020 9:44 pm

Welcome to the most bizarre night in Australian politics since the well-refreshed Tasmanian Liberal Bruce Goodluck wandered into an evening…

Palestinian leaders prefer to keep their people suffering to peace. Again

3 February 2020 7:45 pm

So, the Arab League has rejected the latest United States Middle East Peace Plan. So, what’s new, I hear you…

For once, just once, Richard Di Natale has made the right decision

3 February 2020 5:11 pm

Richard Di Natale this morning announced his retirement from politics, and his reasons make me want to stand up and…

It’s not easy being Greens leader

3 February 2020 1:02 pm

To understand why Richard Di Natale is stepping down as Greens leader, you have to appreciate two things. The first…

Finally, the truth about contemporary feminist theory

3 February 2020 11:02 am

I have long said that modern feminists don’t even know what they’re fighting for anymore. Sure, they don their pussy…

Scott Morrison stopped the boats. If he wants to seize back the political agenda, he can stop the rorts

3 February 2020 5:00 am

So Bridget McKenzie has bitten the dust. Finally, and not because of the flagrant pork-barrelling she and her office were…