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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

New Zealand’s Covid inquiry: reckoning or rubber-stamp?

7 December 2022 4:00 am

New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, this week announced a Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s Covid response. ‘A…

Courage is the cure

6 December 2022 1:24 pm

The Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS) is on a mission to restore medical free speech in this country and ensure…

The carbon crusades of Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese

6 December 2022 10:00 am

New Zealand plans to introduce a fart tax in 2025. The problem is, the Ardern government hasn’t discussed the detail…

Covid confusion: reckless and illogical governments

6 December 2022 9:00 am

Coming from a background in Big Pharma and having been a senior pharmaceutical consultant in clinical trials and drug regulatory…

Death: a dystopian love affair

6 December 2022 7:00 am

Canada’s dystopian love affair with State-assisted dying grows more chilling by the day. Fashion house La Maison Simons has produced…

The ‘green leap’ forward

6 December 2022 4:00 am

The Dutch Minister for Nitrogen, Christianne van der Wal, announced that 3,000 farms will be forced to sell their properties…

No beer, hugs, kisses, or gays: international crims welcome…?

5 December 2022 11:33 am

The World Cup in Qatar has been wallowing in controversy since it was first awarded twelve years ago. And the…

Labor’s absurd censure of ScoMo

5 December 2022 9:00 am

Following the inquiry by Judge Virginia Bell, Anthony Albanese has done the obvious political thing and moved to censure the…

Tasmania: where women’s rights never arrived

5 December 2022 7:30 am

Another disturbing judgment from a tribunal in Tasmania shows that our judicial system in Australia is corrupted with a virus…

Vale Niamh Finneran Loader

5 December 2022 7:10 am

It is with a heavy heart that I deliver the news that a fellow contributor to The Spectator Australia, Niamh Finneran…

Carbon emissions are driving children online

5 December 2022 7:00 am

Editor’s note: this is Niamh Finneran Loader’s final piece, published after her tragic death over the weekend. A tribute from…

Liberty is a conservative value

5 December 2022 4:00 am

Recently-elected Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has repeatedly demonstrated a deep understanding of conservative values. By way of example, in…

The curious case of the vanishing Covid fines

4 December 2022 12:49 pm

On Tuesday last week, New South Wales joined the growing list of governments to quietly drop (or reimburse) Covid fines.…

Victoria’s eyes

4 December 2022 10:00 am

I recently had the experience of engaging with two Victorias. It was not planned – indeed, both ‘acquaintances’ were well…

Could we benefit from a new National Anthem?

4 December 2022 8:00 am

Following a nationwide competition run by the Australian Council of the Arts to find a National Anthem to replace God Save…

The media has a God complex

4 December 2022 6:00 am

The headline read: Scott Morrison ‘has a God complex’ and recited the Bible in meetings, new book claims. Whoa. This’ll…

Brittany Higgins case finally over

3 December 2022 5:46 pm

Great news. The Brittany Higgins case is over. The ACT Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold announced yesterday that the…

LEAKED: The Twitter Files: Hunter’s Laptop

3 December 2022 2:21 pm

Someone needs to go and wake up Sleepy Joe, because Twitter CEO Elon Musk is airing the social media company’s…

Voluntary Assisted Dying is back on the agenda

3 December 2022 11:08 am

The Covid pandemic brought into focus management of the elderly in nursing homes; those with dementia or with chronic morbidity…

Change the government, or the reef gets it!

3 December 2022 4:00 am

As far as Australian left-wing politicians were concerned, the threatened endangerment finding on the Great Barrier Reef was just blackmail.…

Beware of Labor bearing advice

2 December 2022 2:16 pm

It is always amusing to hear what wisdom a party in power offers its opponents because the ultimate goal of…

The three lessons that Christmas teaches our culture

2 December 2022 12:21 pm

Christmas is popular. Nearly every Australian can’t wait to put up their lights and decorations. Retailers rush to sell them…

VATE’s commitment to championing the Voice

2 December 2022 8:00 am

It shouldn’t surprise that at a recent conference organised by the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) teachers…

It’s acceptable to protest Covid measures – but only in China

2 December 2022 6:00 am

And just like that, in case you missed the headlines, protesting against Covid measures has become acceptable. Heroic, even –…

Australians all let us rejoice, for Gough is, thankfully, long gone

2 December 2022 4:00 am

Today is the 50th anniversary of the election of the Whitlam government. The hagiography is coming in a torrent: Whitlam…