When can conservatives disobey the law?
The great English novelist Charles Dickens, based on his experiences, had a very dark view of lawyers and the legal…
High noon for academic freedom at the High Court
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Curtin…
ScoMo goes troppo
Many Spectator Australia readers will recall the way Paul Keating taunted John Hewson in the lead up to the 1993…
What does the future hold for Malcolm Turnbull?
The Spectator Australia has been spelling out a simple truth for many years now: Malcolm Turnbull simply isn’t very good…
How accurate are PCR tests?
With the revelation that passengers were barred from boarding the first repatriation flight to Australia from India on the basis of…
Budget 2021: a spendathon sugar hit to keep the punters high till polling day
Despite Josh Frydenberg’s denials, we appear set for a spendathon budget tonight, a budget where an unexpected surge in revenue…
Scott Morrison: a show about nothing
Speculation that the government would like to go to the polls by the end of this year has been swirling…
The facts on compulsory coronavirus vaccination in the workplace
Last week the Nine newspapers reported a Fair Work Commission decision to uphold the right of an employer, in this case major…
Mark McGowan, WA’s lazy lord of the lockdown
For the second time in less than three months, the Wester Australian Premier Mark McGowan has locked up two million…
Vaccine ‘passports’: a legal and ethical minefield
On Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined his ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown. An important aspect of this plan is…
Where are our conservative heroes?
The federal parliament’s pre-Budget recess carries with it crucial significance this year. It comes at a time when the Morrison…
Nero walks in Western Australia
In 64 AD a great fire swept through Rome, destroying much of the city. The Emperor of the time, Nero,…
The WA Liberals have only themselves to blame
Tomorrow, 15 March, in 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated. In Shakespeare’s homonymous play a fortune teller warns Caesar of…
The ‘court of public opinion’ is nothing but mob rule
During Christian Porter’s press conference which turned into a blood sport yesterday, two journalists in particular insisted that the Attorney-General…
WA stink?
The 1980s in Western Australia were heady days. Riding off the success of winning the rights to host the America’s…
Immunity passports and the the Leviathan of public health despotism
In his recent book Virus e Leviatano, the veteran Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli analyses how coronavirus has led to a form of health despotism replacing the rule of…
Move over, Dictator Dan: Marshal Mark is the new laughable Lord of the Lockdown
In his famous political discourse, The Republic, the great philosopher Plato deemed tyranny the “fourth and worst disorder of a state.”…
An early coronavirus vaccine rollout? Be careful what you wish for…
Following reports that 30 people died in Norway after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, the government, its health officers and Pfizer…
Questions raised about the Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
As discussed in this publication by Professor Jennifer Rogers last week, there have been discrepancies in the data reported by…
Just how voluntary will any coronavirus vaccine be, given the ethical concerns?
Over the last couple of weeks there have been several developments with regard to a potential coronavirus vaccine. On 16…
Scott Morrison: dismal with Daniel Andrews, feeble on freedom
Ahead of question time in federal parliament yesterday there were two contrasting speeches given. In response to a motion moved…
Are the ‘quiet Australians’ confused, fearful – or both?
On Monday, a Newspoll published in The Australian put the Coalition Government and the Labor tied on 50-50 support on a two-party…
The dictatorship of the health bureaucracy
Much has been written over the last few months about how unelected bureaucrats, with the unquestioning acquiescence of our politicians, have…
