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In The Australian Ugliness, published in 1960, the architect Robin Boyd remembered a meal in a hotel dining room in…
Aussie life
April is the cruellest month for anybody who despairs at the state of contemporary humour. Where are the Ealing comedies…
Welcome to the new Dark Ages
The civilisation Australians are used to won’t last much longer
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A journalist friend has been writing an advice column rather like The Speccie’s ‘Dear Mary’. He was calling it ‘Ask…
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You’ve possibly heard of a ghastly woman called Patrisse Cullors. Her chief claim to fame is that she founded that…
Cancel ‘Invasion Day’
Stop patronising Aboriginal Australians
A bush Cardinal for Rome?
Our Peronist Pope likes to keep his prelates guessing
Name wars
Dividing Australians by race
Premier Dan-Xi crushes dissent
The right to protest is a Covid casualty in Victoria
China must cough up for Covid
Send the bill to Beijing for the Wuhan flu
Why does the Pope dislike conservatives?
Vatican II was a flop. Get over it.
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It’s always sad to see the end of a love affair, particularly when the lovers had seemed so enraptured of…
How to beat the drums of war
We have the wherewithal to defeat the Chinese threat
The ‘Great Reset’ is a globalist power grab
The elites take on democracy
Keeping us in our place
Lockdowns are just the start of an era of rule by ‘experts’
May I quota you?
Time leftists made way for other identity groups
No logic please, we’re Leftists
Woke inconsistencies provide boundless unintended humour
Pell plot thickens
Was the Cardinal’s accuser being paid with Vatican funds?
The Vatican is far too cosy with Beijing
Why does the Pope not condemn China’s human rights abuses?
The ABC’s democracy deficit
Free societies do not need a state-owned broadcaster
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Statue deconstruction is becoming the Anglosphere’s most popular artistic genre. So why are our local avant-garde artists lagging behind? Sculpture…
Kick the handout habit
The pandemic offers the perfect opportunity to get rid of wasteful ‘arts’ funding
Selling Beijing the rope
Trade with China masks more sinister intentions
Nothing to be proud of
Sex discrimination takes concrete form in Melbourne
Threatened with extinction
Climate change activists may only have a few years left