What the ACT election tells us about our rulers in the Bubble
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The path between herd immunity and lockdown
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EXCLUSIVE: Are the ADF’s pandemic operations breaching its own guidelines?
The Spectator Australia has seen a copy of the Defence Department’s un-redacted Defence Assistance to the Civil Community manual which…
Professor Sutton’s curious memory
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton is the public face of Covid-19 in the Lockdown State. It is Professor Sutton…
Euro notes
Half-hearted Tory Spare a thought for the UK’s embattled lamb producers. How long will it be, they are wondering, until…
Hippocrates cancelled
Health bureaucrats and actively complicit doctors are now guilty of crimes against humanity
Cashless in Alice
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Musical notes
Trumps like us, baby we were born to run Mr Bruce Springsteen has, depending on how one views these things,…
Orson Welles
The journals of the plague year from the point of view of culture are getting weirder and weirder from Daniel…
Opera Australia’s Attila before shutdown in March
Attila the Hun might have been hard to stop but Verdi’s opera Attila was stopped in its tracks at the…
Aussie Life & Language
Michael Scammell Coming out of Melbourne lockdown is like coming down from drugs. Or more precisely coming down from the…
The generosity of French doctors
My last NHS scan showed a shadow on a rib. The scan report couldn’t decide between a new cancer metastasis…
A cautionary tale about how democracy can subvert itself: Bunga Bunga reviewed
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Tom Bower pulls his punches with his life of Boris Johnson
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The gospel of separation according to Malcolm X
In late April 1962 Los Angeles police shot and killed an unarmed black man, Ronald X Stokes, during a disturbance…
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The Climb is, essentially, a bickering bromance as two longtime pals bicker bromantically down the years, and it doesn’t sound…
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