The ABC once made jokes, now it is a joke
I have fond memories of ABC’s Wednesday night programming around 2005-10 when the best comedies they had to offer used…
Fight them on the speeches! Why the FSU is needed in Australia
There is a view that is common amongst the sceptics of cancel culture, that it is merely a battle between elites and…
Balls: women don’t have them, and neither does Pesutto
I was so close to writing a good news story about cancel culture. There have been many examples of bravery…
The cope of self-love
On Valentine’s Day 2023, the number one hit on the pop charts was a song about a woman (Miley Cyrus)…
The Muzak of activism
Last week I heard the song Beds are Burning played at least three times in the space of a few…
The Voice: referendum, revolution, or racism?
After sneering at those that voted ‘yes’ in the Brexit Referendum because ‘people could not have known what they were…
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas
When I clicked on the program for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, I expected the usual lineup of ideologically homogeneous…
Win the battle - lose the culture war?
Whenever a disaffected liberal artist is abandoned by the Left – The Spectator Australia gains a creative and insightful commentator. The path…
We’re missing those subversive and dangerous ideas
The biggest shifts in culture have always come out of subcultures or scenes that go mainstream. It was mostly African…
Trickle-down ‘Woke’ dominates business
‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ has been a favourite cry of those that oppose companies that take on fashionable causes but…
The real hippies are with Joe Rogan
I have been trying to avoid writing about Joe Rogan since everyone has a take on the old hippy rockers vs…
You can’t film that!
Blanket bans on secret recordings are an affront to freedom. Fortunately, animal rights activists are doing Australians a favour by…
The political extremism of the left: a sacred cow
Everyone that wants to combat dogma and extremism should support heretics, no matter what sacred cows they slay. The fact…
Do we overemphasise ‘smart’ ahead of ‘skilled’ or ‘practical’?
Living back in my hometown — being slightly starved of cultural content — I quickly bought tickets to Bri Lee’s…
BMI, beetles, and beauty: what the body positivity movement gets right and wrong
Recently, I read two books of the same name but with very different content. The first was Beauty by Bri…
What ever happened to good old fashioned innuendo?
Where did innuendo go? That is the question that has been bugging me recently. I listen to a lot of…
The real Dark Mofo scandal? Its search for shock over substance
Dark Mofo is one of a few — if not the only– arts festival in Australia that still could be…
Priorities, priorities. Please welcome Victoria’s first Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Victorian Government last week decided to announce the appointment of the first…
The increasing threat of delegated legislation – legislation put above the power of parliament
“It’s probably a bit unusual for me to be in agreement with the IPA,” said Labor Senator Kim Carr. “I…
Why the ABC shouldn’t just receive a funding freeze, but a cut.
The ABC using its own airtime to cry poor makes for tedious viewing and ignores the concerns of ordinary Australians. …
The biggest issue with COVIDSafe: incompetence
The COVID-19 tracing application may look like a targeted and temporary solution, but history shows that privacy incursions are typically…
We must ensure our liberties are returned as swiftly as they have been taken
On March 30, New South Wales went to bed in a liberal democracy and woke up in a police state…
We need strength to survive, not a shutdown of our economy
Australia needs strength to survive the coronavirus, but many policies designed to manage the spread may be counterproductively weakening our…
How localism and community spirit can see us through the corona crisis
Rather than more centralisation of powers with the government and bureaucrats in Canberra, a better approach to managing coronavirus would…
