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

‘Let us save lives again’ say vaccine-free healthcare workers

22 November 2022 4:00 am

Healthcare workers who were forced to leave their employment when they declined Covid vaccinations say it’s time to drop the…

Dan Andrews: Facebook’s sugar daddy

21 November 2022 7:06 pm

It’s election week for Victoria, so we can expect some pretty strange stories to pop up out of the political…

NZ hate speech laws: legislation is no antidote to hate

21 November 2022 12:02 pm

Time has been called on overhauling ‘hate speech laws’ in New Zealand. After sitting in Labour’s manifesto for years, and…

Cashed-up, come-hither politics

21 November 2022 10:00 am

Getting the nation moronically into debt to placate Covid panic merchants may be the best thing the Liberals have done…

Land release: the solution to the NSW housing crisis?

21 November 2022 9:00 am

Are rising housing prices putting the future of Australian society under threat? Edmund Burke famously said that society was a…

Democrat Dan – copying notes from the US midterms

21 November 2022 6:00 am

Two dominant key messages helped the US Democratic Party avoid the predicted ‘red wave’ in that country’s mid-term elections a…

G20 leaders declare global digital health network

21 November 2022 4:00 am

Following the conclusion of the G20 summit held in Bali last week, a joint declaration was issued which, among other things,…

FIFA’s ignorant hypocrisy

20 November 2022 10:00 am

‘We have been told many, many lessons from some Europeans, from the Western World. I think for what we Europeans…

Australia’s Woke World Cup

20 November 2022 8:00 am

As the child of proud ethnic immigrants, some of my best memories come from watching my country’s national football team.…

Dear Victoria

20 November 2022 6:00 am

Dear Victoria, This is it… The approaching state election is what the rest of the nation has been anticipating for…

Climate fools are a corporate pandemic

20 November 2022 4:00 am

Really, this should be a weekly column, but I fear writing about fools that often might do my head in.…

Cop27: turning climate into an economic weapon

19 November 2022 12:42 pm

Before our leaders get carried away with the Cairo Climate Conference 2022 and start imposing economic losses on those (me…

Conversion therapy legislation: trick or treat?

19 November 2022 10:33 am

‘One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I don’t know.’ I am…

Don’t trust me, I’m a doctor

19 November 2022 7:18 am

I was recently accused of lying. This was a little hard to swallow as it was over a directly referenced…

What does America want?

18 November 2022 1:18 pm

The time for speculation is over. Donald Trump has formally announced his intention to run for the Presidency in 2024…

Dan Andrews’ shame: the Melbourne we remember

18 November 2022 11:54 am

I had hoped I wouldn’t be drawn to re-read David Satter’s It Was a Long Time Ago and it Never Happened…

Eco-crazy: where does this end?

18 November 2022 10:00 am

One of the few bright spots during the early phase of the Covid pandemic was the sight of a smiling 99-year-old…

A hill to die on

18 November 2022 6:00 am

In July 2021, when ‘vaccine passports’ were still a crazy conspiracy theory, I wrote an article for The Spectator Australia arguing that Australia must…

Victoria: the Upper House matters

18 November 2022 4:00 am

Don’t look down on the Upper House Victorian voters have started numbering the boxes to determine who will run the…

The cult of Daniel Andrews

17 November 2022 4:40 pm

Peta Credlin’s documentary, The Cult of Daniel Andrews, is a must-watch and does an excellent job in three respects. First, it…

Biden-unhinged: is Musk a threat to national security?

17 November 2022 10:53 am

The United States government’s investigation into Elon Musk now comes with a potential ‘domestic terrorist’ toe-tag. When asked if the…

Trump won’t change, but the world will

17 November 2022 10:15 am

An uncharacteristically reserved Donald Trump took to the Mar-a-Lago stage on Tuesday night. Perhaps smarting from a less-than-stellar turn by…

Cut the fat in the curriculum

17 November 2022 6:00 am

The recent release of the 2022 NAPLAN results were met with a collective sigh of relief from governments and the…

The sin of masculinity

17 November 2022 4:00 am

The importance of the presumption of innocence was highlighted last week. Virginia Giuffre, who alleged she was trafficked by Jeffrey…

In memory of the West: Scotland’s charred Remembrance Stone

16 November 2022 1:35 pm

Anger is mounting after poppy wreaths made by veterans were set on fire at the Edinburgh war memorial, Scotland, in…