In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
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…
Adam Bandt insults Australians by ditching flag
Ahead of a press conference with Greens Leader Adam Bandt earlier this week, a Greens staffer moved the Australian flag…
Boiling in the Culture Wars pot
In recent decades, the West – like the proverbial frog – has been blasé toward the rising temperature of the…
Greta furious over China’s new oil deal! (Just kidding)
Dragging Australia over the coals of climate guilt is practically a registered sport for the IPCC. Despite being a Carbon negative…
The working class revolution of common-sense
What we saw in Melbourne during the tradie riots was a supreme act of sound judgment. Only a fraternity of…
The Winter of discontent
To paraphrase from William Shakespeare’s Richard the Third – ‘Now is the winter of our discontent made inglorious by renewable…
The world’s most expensive flagpole
As soon as the New South Wales state government finishes putting the Aboriginal flag atop Sydney Harbour Bridge, they need…
Albo’s war against Capitalism
Seeking to disabuse critics of the notion that his interest and expertise in economics were Whitlamesque, Anthony Albanese released a…
Women’s rights triumph (sort of)
Far from the feminist Utopia, progressive politics underpinned by radical gender activism has created a generation of women too afraid…
From Istanbul, with confusion
Few cities stir the adventurer’s soul as Istanbul – that vast, sprawling mass straddling Europe and Asia which acts as…
Coal to the rescue?
What sort of a third-world country have we become, with an abundance of natural resources, that ‘load shedding’ or electricity…
Australia’s corporate Surveillance State
During the mid-20th century, George Orwell famously wrote a novel featuring the sinister embodiment of surveillance, the Big Brother State.…
The West: last refuge of the ‘Regressives’
Recently, Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi made an address to the Iranian people, who have been protesting against the brutal Islamist…
Sir John Kerr: villain or victim?
Over the years since 1975, partisan players have mounted an ongoing campaign to vilify Sir John Kerr. They claim, variously,…
