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Reasonable doubt about Pell
I want to remind readers of the Speccie of a key premise – really it is a trade-off that we…
Schumpeter’s vision returns
A prominent economist has written that capitalism is in crisis. Its wealth creation engine is sputtering. Those at the head…
Fake constitutional change
The 20th Anniversary of the landslide victory by the rank-and-file over a juggernaut of Australia’s elites —the mainstream media, most…
Put a sock in it, Kel
My gosh these are delicate times Down Under. Not for Australians the vigorous thrust and parry of political debate with…
Aussiexit
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Brexit decision on June 23, 2016, was that a majority of voters…
Mother Jacinda and climate change’s King Canute
A Pacific Island Forum in Tuvalu was always going to be inundated by climate catastrophism. One of the lowest-lying island…
Let thespians tremble
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now,’ exhorts Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, whipping up the crowd against…
Jaded by Jacinda
On a Pacific cruise ship recently, passengers were subjected to a rant by an Australian ‘comedian’ – a word now…
Ice-pack of lies
Unfortunately, critical scientific research does not always filter through to the public. Consequently, climate alarmists are getting away with blue…
Moment of evil
It was a moment of sheer evil. This was when the closely guarded secret bill to allow the killing of…
Litmus test for the Libs
Despite ScoMo’s ‘miracle’ victory over the now almost forgotten Bill Shorten, and much Liberal party celebrating over the apparent return…
Molotov’s poisonous cocktail
Yesterday’s 80th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the curtain-raiser for Hitler’s invasion of Poland a week later,…
Keneally sells out
It is not the easiest thing in the world to cause a stir among conservatives. They are often described as…
Business/Robbery etc
Having turned 80 last month and 12 years out of office, Australia’s 25th Prime Minister John Winston Howard’s occasional and…
The day the news died
Hollywood blockbusters are not normally the place one finds insight, but a new action thriller recently provided an unexpected reflection…
Nihilism nirvana
If you were to believe some politicians and journalists, the recent mass killings in El Paso, Texas and Christchurch, New…
We are only half-reconciled
Senator Pat Dodson, often called the ‘father of reconciliation’, said last week that political leaders had failed to reconcile with…
Four freedoms
Is it time for Australia to legislate for a minimalist bill of rights? Now, before you scream ‘Not as long…
True leadership personified
Although Napoleon said that every soldier carries a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack, great leaders are rare. Since Churchill, the…
NSW botches abortion
‘The sound of men arguing over our personal reproductive health choices hurts my ears and it offends my very core,’…
Daughter slaughter
Exactly twenty-five years ago, August 1994, Australia’s leading practitioner of late-term abortion gave a lecture at Monash University on ‘Abortion…
The Year My Woke Broke
When Prince Harry revealed, in the issue of Vogue his wife guest-edited, that they would only have two children ‘to…
Doing the Makarrata
So here we go again. What I will call ‘Atsic mark II’ is currently getting pollies, journos and lawyers in…
The G-G should resign
Australia’s constitutional system cannot function properly with a Governor-General inserting himself into contemporary political debate. If the current Governor-General wishes…
Australia’s content laws are just so… European
Australians love Netflix. If statistics are to be believed, roughly half of all Australians have a Netflix subscriber in their…
