In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The myth of female innocence
When I was 15 years old, I inadvertently angered a group of mean girls who hung out at the roller…
Pandemic survivors and the silent victims of excess mortality
Many in the media, politics, and the health industry have expressed the view that Australia has fared well since the…
Are we headed toward the death of reason?
In one important way, the death of Pope Benedict last week was the death of reason in an increasingly secular…
My time with Cardinal Ratzinger
I first met Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in the mid-nineties. He was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and midway through his…
Covid 2023: a crisis of trust
The past couple of months have seen some quite startling Covid studies published in reputable medical journals that should be…
Thanks for all the fish
Environmentalism now requires the prefix ‘real’ to separate it from its toxic cousin, eco-fascism. In terms of real environmentalism, there…
Pope Benedict XVI: the first victim of cancel culture
In January 2008, Pope Benedict XVI was invited by one of Italy’s (if not the world’s) leading universities, La Sapienza…
Canada to re-educate Jordan Peterson for ‘wrongthink’
Wokeism has destroyed Canada. We knew the situation was bad when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau froze the bank accounts of…
Twitter’s free speech threatens radical trans activism
I sat down to write this article about how Elon was being held captive in some areas in his expressed…
The power of many
It was 2014 when I first heard from Andrew, a young Queensland dad, who was being denied contact with his…
That’s not cricket! The Don knew his economics
It is increasingly common for professional sportsmen and women to express political opinions, particularly in the age of Twitter. Most…
Adams aims wrong’un at the Don and Kamahl
The recent disclosure that Sir Donald George Bradman warmly welcomed Labor’s defeat in the 1975 federal election must have come…
Monarchist League issues ultimatum on the Voice
The federal government under Anthony Albanese, regardless of what it admits and what the media reports, is moving fast to…
WEF Watch: carbon accounting
Given the risk posed by the closed-door lobbying group more commonly known as the World Economic Forum, this year The Spectator…
In search of common sense
I am sure that, like me, you have not only used the term ‘common sense’ yourselves, but have heard many…
Is Queensland’s Minister for Women selling out women and girls?
Under Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Women, and the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence Shannon Fentiman’s new bill, a…
Will history judge Benedict XVI more kindly than his contemporaries?
This weekend I have been touring TV studios trying to set the late Pope Benedict’s life and work in perspective.…
Liberate New Year’s Eve
We are nearly at the end of the first day in 2023. Presumably, most people have ruined their resolution diet…
Australia’s New Year resolutions
As I consider the future and look forward to the year 2023, I have resolved to make the following solemn…
Pope Benedict XVI: towering intellect and deep piety
Sydney’s Cardinal Anthony Fisher is right to praise the late Pope Benedict XVI as ‘a man of towering intellect and…
Building babies in a brave new world
The term ‘dystopian’ gets thrown around a lot these days, but it’s fair to say that the idea of babies…
Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK
I admire Tucker Carlson, Robert Kennedy Jr, and Miranda Devine, but they’ve all done a disservice recently in fuelling foolish…
You don’t decide your pronouns – we do
How often do you get emails from someone who signs off with their pronouns? How often are you confronted in…
The crimes of eco-fascism
Conservatives never should have surrendered the ground of environmental conservation to the radicalised, collectivised, totalitarian Left. Since becoming custodians of…
No time for panic
Cristina Talacko is the CEO of Coalition for Conservation, an environmental charity working with centre-right politicians on energy and climate…
