The Voice referendum was a tragedy
There is nothing to celebrate about the weekend’s referendum result. My party campaigned in the March election on a colour-blind…
Labor has been hostile to the Constitution since the 1890s
Many in favour of the Voice fail to understand the purpose of a nation’s Constitution. Before voting, Australians need a…
Make Australian politics great again
Spectator Australia writer, and now-elected Member of the NSW Legislative Council, the Hon. John Ruddick, has given his maiden speech. Mr…
You have been misled, Australia had a glorious Great Depression
Nothing in Australia is as Americanised as our perception of the 1930s and the Great Depression. The American reality of…
Bring back Christianity
Around 5,000 years ago, humans mastered writing. This marked the transition from prehistory to history. It’s a fraught calculation, but…
Climate notes
The Great Global Warming Symposium We can now look back over the past decade and agree that ‘climate change’ has…
Tory turmoil
Since the advent of cable news and the internet most politically-interested Aussies now follow US politics more than UK politics.…
Liberal Notes
Why we won
Gladys Berejiklian: Liberal legend?
If Gladys Berejiklian wins the state election she will be a certified New South Wales Liberal legend. There have been…
Whitewater, Lewinsky, Clinton and, er, Trump
This month marks the 20th anniversary of President Bill Clinton’s acquittal by the Senate in the Whitewater-Lewinsky bogus scandal. It…
Presidential notes
Insiders and Outsiders Buckle up, US political junkies! We are now just moments away from the starting gun being fired…
Bye bye Nats?
Some could use the Barnaby Joyce Affair as an opportunity to kick the National party while it’s down… so let’s…
The inconvenient truth about Al Gore
A decade ago Al Gore released his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Second only to 9/11 it was the decade’s most…
The game’s up. Or is it?
A state division of the Liberal Party will have a State Conference on 2-3 September 2017 to debate the introduction…
