In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The ‘incredible’ International Fire & Climate Conference
Three consecutive extreme summers accompanied the Settlement Drought of 1790-93. Masses of flying foxes and lorikeets dropped dead in Parramatta…
Crypto: the opposite of a Kantian investment
‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so despicable it has to be changed every six months.’ – Oscar Wilde. Therein…
Top Gun Maverick: Hollywood abandons ‘Woke’ and the CCP
You’ve heard the saying ‘Go woke, go broke’ due to various film and television instalments being rejected by audiences for…
We must educate ourselves on democracy
I’ve undergone a crash course in the Australian voting system. It’s complicated and opaque – but has the potential to…
Our kids deserve to be happy
Enough of terrifying our kids on a daily basis. Climate Change activists have a lot to answer for in terms…
Australians cling to Covid overreach
A widely circulated Nine News article last week announced that ‘a new study finds fewer than 1 in 10 people thought…
Labor begs for coal
No, you’re not imagining it. This week has been freezing cold. Either the federal election magically changed the climate overnight…
We all need a little ‘risk’ to survive
Is safety the best course of action? Our grandparents were willing to sacrifice their lives to preserve freedom for future…
Blaire White on ‘What is a Woman?’
Political commentator Matt Walsh’s long-awaited documentary What is a Woman? dropped this week and oh boy there are a lot of feathers detached and…
The Werther Effect
Perhaps the most significant landmark of my youth was learning of the unexplained death of Avicii, the stage name of…
Transgender Barbie
Transgender Barbie is now available for purchase. Toy giant Mattel announced last week that they ‘couldn’t be more excited’ about the doll which…
Pandering to women won’t save the Libs
‘Women were the forgotten people in this election’, pronounced Katherine Deves on Sky News Australia, following the election. The Liberal candidate…
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…
