In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
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…
NSW Liberals: party democracy must be honoured
If you thought the factional war that tore apart the NSW Liberal Party on the eve of the recent federal…
Albo’s gas cap folly
If the threat of gas rationing and blackouts on the first day of winter this year taught us anything it…
Pandora’s box of genes: Orwell’s DNA databases
Earlier this year in July, one of Australia’s enduring mysteries – the Somerton Man – was solved. It was the story of…
Twitter’s smoking gun
The latest batch of Twitter Files have dropped, and boy are they a doozy. Yet again, the conspiracy theorists have…
Rewiring the nation
Mr Malinauskas, Premier of the Australian colony of South Australia, let slip in recent times that he believed there should…
Entering a new Dark Age
‘Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.’ – Heinrich Heine History has always been problematic for tyrants.…
The Nanny State Awards
This year’s highly un-coveted Nanny State Award was a tight contest, with a horde of strong contenders from around the…
There are no degrees of innocence
The golden thread rule running through criminal law in our common law system is that a person accused of a…
Elton John’s Twitter curtain call
Elton John has quit twitter. The iconic singer/songwriter advised his 1.1 million followers on Twitter early this morning: ‘All my…
Why we never win
Unless there is major ideological and structural reform, the future for the Liberals and the broad centre-right is bleak
Therapeutic justice: the unreligion of our age
I am not a lawyer, but if I take at face value the description of a number of cases in…
The Twitter Files: shadowbanning is real
Headlines are awash with the accusation that former CEO Jack Dorsey – and other members of the former Twitter team…
