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Setting fire to the climate straw man
As the inevitably painful consequences of unfounded climate alarmism hit home with our very own energy crisis, Australians are entitled…
2030: a glimpse of dystopia
The year is 2030. Steven and Melissa are a young Global Citizen couple who have just received wonderful news –…
Is the feminist mafia controlling science funding?
Melbourne University research fellow Dr Anna Kosovac is a civil engineer and an expert in water policy. Last year she…
Has TikTok’s time run out?
The US Senate has (finally) decided to ban Chinese social media app TikTok from government devices after years of criticism…
Reforming Australia’s child support system
Australia’s child support system was introduced by the Hawke government in 1988. Since that time, it has undergone various incremental…
A close encounter with American healthcare
In November 2013, I had my only encounter with the American healthcare system after finishing the New York marathon. It…
The joke’s on Xi: China will not keep its climate fortune
China is kidding itself if it thinks Western mining corporations and tax-hungry governments are going to sit around and let…
The rise of the citizen confronter
News and social media loves a good ‘vox pop’; you know, the voices of those near the Main Road of…
John Howard was right about Medicare
The Hawke government introduced Medicare in 1984. Once John Howard replaced Andrew Peacock as Opposition Leader in 1985, Howard repeatedly…
‘Cookers’ are a product of the modern Left
Why do conspiracy theories emerge? Why are they so rampant today? Ask the Left and they’ll tell you that it’s…
China is on the march, but where is it going?
Re-elected Chairman Xi has (essentially) unlimited power. Addressing his fabricated version of the past and future is one of many…
A predictably dire diversity hire
Sam Brinton, a ‘non-binary’ nuclear official in Biden’s Department of Energy, has been charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing…
Divisive Victoria: promotes Islam, shuns Christianity
As the wave of protests continue across Iran three months after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian…
Cookin’ with gas…?
Imagine an economy run by Anthony Albanese and Adam Bandt, with expert advice from Chris Bowen. Guess what? You’re in…
Iran copies Trudeau and moves to freeze bank accounts
Dissenters opposing Iran’s hardline hijab mandate face having their bank accounts frozen, prison, or worse, if they fail to comply…
The sovereignty of technocrats and rule of lawyers
It began when the lawns atop Parliament House were fenced off. The whole point of the design of Parliament House was…
The right to die
Suicide was once illegal, and failed attempts frequently led to prosecution. In Medieval England, suicides were denied a Christian burial.…
Vatican offers the keys of the kingdom of heaven to Xi Jinping
The Vatican recently released a statement about China. It said nothing about the persecution of Christians and other believers, the…
Lying, deceit, and prevarication throughout our New Zealand politburo
On this side of the Tasman, the circumstances relating to the ramming through Parliament under urgency of the now misnamed…
Energy collapse: it all begins with a market cap
Thousands of years of experience – from the ancient Babylonians and Roman Emperor Diocletian, through to modern times – have…
Ben Falconer to appeal mandatory vaccination decision
Spectator Australia readers will recall an application for judicial review of the mandatory vaccination orders in Western Australia in that…
There is nothing ‘smart’ about surveillance cities
On December 3, Jo Nova penned an article, Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about…
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
In the novel Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi gave a heart-wrenching account of her experience as an English teacher in the…
Western Australia’s conversion therapy ban
A media statement made by the McGowan government on December 1, indicates the Labor-majority government is set to introduce a bill…
What I learnt from an Aboriginal Elder
Recently, I sat down to interview an Aboriginal Elder from South Australia for the ExCandidates podcast, of which I am…
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