Jim Molan’s the only man for the NSW Senate vacancy
NSW Liberal Senator Major General Jim Molan, in an unwinnable slot on the state party’s ticket, has received a record…
The science is settled
The science is settled. Not in relation to the increasingly discredited theory that man-made global warming is having a signal…
Secretive media office exposed
Operating from the bowels of Parliament House is the highly secretive OCPC, the Office of Commentariat and Polling Coordination. Despite…
It was The Speccie wot won it
‘No body saw it coming,’ the mainstream media repeated endlessly when results emerged on Saturday evening 18 May, contrary to…
A welcome – but predictable – victory
The election result surprised pollsters, punters and most commentators. But as I argued early last Wednesday on the Spectator Australia…
A Coalition victory is on the cards
There can be no doubt now that Bill Shorten wept profusely as he plunged the dagger, first into Kevin Rudd’s back and…
How the Coalition might still prevail
It’s generally agreed that this election will be closer than was expected before campaigning began. The main problem for the…
National suicide note
This election is the most important since 2007 when the best prime minister since Menzies, John Howard, was so unwisely…
Shorten blundering to defeat?
The electorate shows little sign of being interested in politicians offering bribes, wearing caps, eating, playing with children, horsing around…
How can Shorten still be in the lead?
How is it that Labor, no longer the party of the worker but the voice of inner-city elites and millionaire…
Smoking out the neo-coms
Among the many considerable services Tony Abbott has rendered Australia, one was to persuade the late Paul Ramsay to endow…
We mourn Notre Dame with France as we are closer than you think
In our deep sadness about the terrible fire in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, it is apparent how…
Campaign notes
Shorten’s bottom line Could Bill Shorten‘s ‘Hewson moment’ be a similar turning point in the Coalition’s election campaign? Such a…
Aux bien pensants
No wonder so many politicians live in mortal terror of being interviewed by Alan Jones. No one prepares more thoroughly,…
Media freedom long overdue
‘The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing…
Newspeak, translated
‘There’s not a good enough reason for Adelaide to be there,’ quipped ALP grandee Graham Richardson on Sky TV, inadvertently…
PM in the Last Chance Saloon
Australia, we’re told, will soon be under a government of thieves and constitutional vandals, pledged to change laws from the…
Footballers have rights, too
There’s a good chance that because of the charge against Jack de Belin, the right to the presumption of innocence…
No borders, no country
If we don’t have borders, we don’t have a country’. Not many Western leaders would join Donald Trump in declaring…
Aux bien pensants
After the dry comes the wet ‘Remember, after the big dry comes the big wet,’ presciently warned salt-of-the-earth South Australian…
Shorten trumped
Western leaders who believe in state sovereignty and secure borders and who have the strength and courage to fight for…
An endless coup
Do those campaigning against our national day really think that Australia, as we know it, would be here without the…
Raise a glass to the British
Despite years of federal civics education courses, a survey taken some years ago revealed that the vast majority of school…
Aux bien pensants
The New York Times reports the truly shocking news that Australia punches below its weight. The NYT’s source, Lowy Institute…
Leadership beyond politics, rarely found in republics
The oldest office in the land has just changed hands, with barely a ripple on the surface. Acting on the…
