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Is Prime Minister Albanese scared of the crossbench?
Prime Minister Albanese has reduced the advisory staff available to crossbench Senators and MHRs from four to one. This may…
Penny Wong gives Taliban $1 million in aid
While Australian families suffer through Covid-induced poverty or are left jobless due to state-Labor vaccine mandates, Foreign Minister Penny Wong…
I made a go of ‘chest feeding’
My wife and I had our first child recently, and I feared not pulling my weight in helping provide nourishment…
Democrats go on ‘sex strike’
Abortion activists have threatened a ‘sex strike’ to protest the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. A…
Climate Change’s ‘Pigouvian’ tax
Rod Sims, formerly head of the ACCC, advocates a carbon tax as a ‘Pigouvian’ solution to the global damage which he…
Griffith University takes cancel culture too far
Although few may remember him today, Sir Samuel Griffith made an immense contribution to the early development of Australia’s parliamentary…
Kean eliminates plastic!(?)
Dear climate warrior and morally superior eco-activist Matt Kean, You will find a lot of single-use plastic featured in the…
More gaslighting in Roe vs. Wade
As most sentient beings will know by now, the US Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade in the Dobbs case. The general impression…
NSW and Victoria meddle in pre-schools
On June 16, the Premiers of New South Wales and Victoria announced ‘the greatest transformation of childhood education in a…
Roe vs. Wade: Democrats can only blame themselves
The American Democrats have only themselves to blame when it comes to the overturning of Roe vs. Wade. If it had…
Win the battle - lose the culture war?
Whenever a disaffected liberal artist is abandoned by the Left – The Spectator Australia gains a creative and insightful commentator. The path…
Medical students give conservatives hope for the future
Those of us orientated to a more conservative perspective are failing on a number of levels, not least of which…
When are we banning the hammer and sickle?
Victoria this week become the first Australian jurisdiction to ban the Nazi swastika, with those who defy the ban to…
Standard of living to fall sharply
In the pre-Covid days, strike activity was fast disappearing. In Europe, the average days lost from strikes more than halved.…
Back to gold
With the ASX having hit its lowest point since December 2020 earlier this week, and housing prices in major cities…
A different take on Reserve Powers
Although Peter O’Brien’s recent Spectator Australia article defending Sir John Kerr’s dismissal of the Whitlam government was essentially directed at the…
Queensland: boosting tourism with tax?
Covid nearly killed Far-North Queensland’s $2.5 billion tourist industry. Now, the Queensland Tourism Industry Reference Panel is here to finish…
Liberalism: the great political disease
If two years of intermittent lockdowns, compulsory masking, and all the other effects of Covid haven’t convinced our remaining Dr Panglosses that…
Energy reality bites hard
Energy crises have a useful ambiguity to them. Each crisis creates an opportunity for everyone to claim that, ‘It would…
Roots in our past, growing for our future
Despite this being the year of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, the republican debate in Australia has reignited following the Albanese…
A pox on the monkeys
Monkeypox is a rare but potentially dangerous viral disease closely allied to Smallpox, although much less severe. Two major strains…
The greenest lemmings in the world
Australia’s new ALP/Green/Teal government has a Zero Emissions plan, putting them on track to be the victor in the Great…
Activism is destroying ‘truth’
Maybe it was personal reasoning, but much more likely it came from the guidance of a very wise father… As…
Eat crickets! Potential Victorian ban on hunters sharing meat
Updated agriculture legislation in Victoria has been interpreted as a ban on hunters, and farmers sharing game meat with family…
Australia and Canada share scary wildlife
#OnlyInAustralia is trending after an old man in the Northern Territory walked up to a huge crocodile and nonchalantly banged it…
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