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Which employers still have vaccine mandates?
Australian citizens interact with businesses every day, but whether those businesses have policies requiring their staff to have proof of…
NY Supreme Court: unvaccinated and vindicated
Ever since vaccine mandates reared their ugly heads in 2021, countless unvaccinated individuals have lost their jobs for remaining steadfast…
Environmental extremists: iconoclasts without a cause
It is self-evident that even among those of us who are not religious, there is an instinct towards the numinous…
The centre-right should get on their bikes
The bicycle is the machine that best represents conservative and libertarian worldviews, and we cannot let our bikes be co-opted…
NZ passes anti-free speech language compliance law
New Zealand Labour, supported by the Greens, and Māori Party, have passed ‘plain language’ legislation, which will require all branches of…
Cheap renewables, rising power bills?
I cannot work out which is more incredible – the claims this government makes, or the fact that this government…
Net Zero: keeping Australia in the dark
It is claimed that Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘You can fool all the people some of the time and some…
The political asymmetry of Covid
A couple of days ago, Greg Sheridan had a piece in The Australian in which he argued: ‘Covid has been diabolical…
Hackers! Hackers! Hackers!
The Medibank hack (and others) is a warning about Digital Identity and the future of privacy
Where are electric cars going?
Countries are keen to out-virtue-signal each other with electric cars and their contribution to reducing Climate Change; what is plainly…
Tax changes our behaviour
Most people resent paying tax. Though it’s a sentiment just about everyone can relate to, the economic argument against tax…
Are progressives the new colonisers?
History shows that whoever utters the phrase ‘be on the right side of history’ often ends up eating their words.…
What about Azerbaijan?
The following is a letter in reply to What about Armenia? published September 28. The Spectator Australia is not in…
The modern Right’s Cold War moment
To the amusement of other classmates at the adults’ Saturday Vietnamese class, one tutor and I often wind up trying…
Confessions of a 10-year-old revolutionary
As a 10-year-old young ‘pioneer’ in communist-controlled Hungary, I hated the red kerchief I was forced to wear under threat…
Microsoft unveils the latest Pride flag
The Pride flag has had more updates than Windows, so it makes sense for Bill Gates and his team to…
The new big end of town
There is this perception that all that is bad about business comes from the ‘Big End of Town’. Books and…
The politics of tea
There is no greater beneficiary of ‘evil colonialism’ and British Empire than the local Woke tea shop. That doesn’t stop…
Confidence through censorship: The (medical) Ministry of Truth
On Wednesday, October 12, the Queensland Labor government – with support from the LNP opposition – passed a dystopian and…
Electric Vehicles promise to be ‘safe and effective’
Making the rest of your apartment building cough up the cost for your electric vehicle has rightly become a point…
Victoria’s rotten body politic
Democratic government is no longer about delivering election promises. Forget the promises. Forget even the broken promises – there are…
The failed war on pot
It’s hard to overstate the social upheaval associated with the prohibition of alcohol in America a century ago. The sorry…
Andrews’ Leninist approach to power
Last week, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews paraded his inner Lenin. He attacked Victoria’s privately owned coal generation businesses, claiming that…
Mike Cannon-Brookes: energy tunnel vision
Mike Cannon-Brookes, the son of a global banking executive, and co-creator of the Atlassian empire, has weaponised his shareholding in…
Aldi taunts the poor with bugs
‘Eat ze bugs!’ was meant to be a joke. Those of us on the sane side of politics used it…
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