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Is China testing Albanese?
On the week of the federal election, the first (of what will probably be many) people smuggling boats tested Australia’s…
Fred Nile’s Bill to protect Aboriginal heritage
When I was CEO of the Tharawal Local Aboriginal Land Council (TLALC) I was privileged to have a team of…
Plibersek: lady in waiting
Remember Shadow Foreign Minister Penny Wong having to sit, teeth clenched, on the ABC’s 2019 election night special as results…
Rape victim’s testimony changed to avoid misgendering attacker
The BBC allegedly altered a rape victim’s quotes in a story it published to avoid ‘misgendering’ her transgender attacker and conform to…
Poor to suffer as the climate wars bite
As Woke South Australian politicians last week declared a ‘climate emergency’, the reality of Australia’s ill-thought-out climate policy is biting families…
Does integrity matter to the Teals? Let’s see
Before it was taken down last week, the out-sized Josh Frydenberg placard on the side of my home in Surrey…
Trans cyclists leave young mother in third place
The rise of trans-athletes – more specifically, male athletes competing in women’s sports – is going to reach breaking point…
An outsider’s view of the election
As an outside observer, my opinion of the recent federal election may well be different from both the politicians and…
Menzies’ middle class needs some help
Spectator Australia contributor, James Allan, recently made a couple of very important observations about the Liberal Party. First, he showed…
Long live the Queen
Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrates a 70-year peaceful reign. It makes her the third longest serving monarch of…
Australia’s green gamble
Australians took a great green gamble in the recent election. Green millionaires and other left-wing activists supported slick campaigns promoting…
Humanity: stuck with palaeolithic minds in the 21st C
The barbaric attack of Russia on Ukraine came as a powerful shock to many of us. When the war exploded…
Teal: the triumph of AWFUL
Political Anthropology is always fraught with pathologisation, condemnation, and character critiques; most of the mainstream media’s pieces about Donald Trump’s…
SA’s climate emergency: prepare for carbon footprint tracking
The new South Australian Labor government has declared a ‘climate emergency’. Climate lockdowns, surveillance of your ‘carbon footprint’, and restrictions…
Naomi is not crying wolf
Major issues of the day tend to fall along political and ideological lines. But not always. Some matters are so…
The Pacific flirts with China at its own risk
Forewarned is forearmed… As China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, visits the nations of the Pacific, the rest of the world…
Customers won’t like the new energy game
Right now in Australia, we are seeing some smaller electricity retailers being forced out of the market and voluntarily shedding…
Voters put the ‘majors’ on notice
In this federal election, the Coalition and the freedom parties – Liberal Democrats, One Nation, and United Australia Party –…
Autocratic behaviour thrives in Western Australia
Western Australia’s Premier, Mark McGowan, recently launched a war of words on Peter Dutton after being asked by the media…
A knighthood for AstraZeneca
The French haven’t let go of their love for royalty entirely, it seems, as AstraZeneca Chief Executive Sir Pascal Soriot…
Depp wins battle, but men are losing the war
Along with many around the world, I predicted Johnny Depp would win his defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Predictably, much…
Is the Catholic Church going Woke?
Double Shot Editor Terry Barnes wrote on Tuesday there was an article just waiting for me to write on a…
A global food crisis approaches
With the Covid pandemic, an ongoing war in Europe, and soaring inflation all jostling for the leading headline, some may…
And the winner is: Woke capitalism!
Capitalism is dead in Australia. Long live capitalism. The economic system that made the West rich has been defeated –…
Netflix universities…?
Universities around the world have compromised academic rigour to serve Woke maxims. Now, this centuries-old and once highly regarded institution…
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