In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
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…
Baby steps
In a previous article, I argued that those now coming out as opposed to lockdowns first need to apologise for perpetrating…
Australia cancels Jerusalem, ignores CCP South Pacific expansionism
Australian Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, has cancelled a Morrison government initiative recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Labor frontbencher announced the decision in…
Time and tithes of the Voice
These things are always about money. How much will you pay to apologise for the colour of your skin?
BOM-shell
Not content with changing historical data to protect the image of Climate Change (sorry ‘homogenising weather data and closing stations…
Floods and droughts are nothing new
There is nothing unusual about floods, fires, droughts, homelessness, and hunger – they have always been part of the human…
NDIS: improvements that make things worse
Sometimes, when English is insufficient to describe a particular situation, we have to turn elsewhere. German has a terrifying phrase ‘verschlimmbesserung’ or…
Mount Warning banned! Which park will be next?
NSW Liberals betray Australians over National Park lock-out based on race. We are looking at widespread racial discrimination enforced by the state government
Rob Roos and Rowan Dean on the abuse of rights
The admission Dutch conservative member of the European Parliament, Rob Roos, dragged out of Pfizer representative Janine Small has thrown…
Australia’s dumbed-down schools are going nowhere
Over the last month, there have been yet another two initiatives designed, supposedly, to improve the performance of Australian schools,…
