In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Crucial legal front opens in WA vaccine mandate challenge
Spectator Australia readers will recall that, in a recent piece, I reported on an urgent hearing on the evening of Monday, March…
Will Albo bring the Keating interest rates back?
In 1975, when Gough Whitlam came to power, Labor’s free tertiary education scheme meant that I could go to university.…
Dan’s abysmal fictional Budget
As a former high-school English teacher it’s always struck me as odd that many of the most influential works of…
Hyperventilating over juristocracy
To read the newspapers in Australia and Britain – even the conservative newspapers – one would think the US Supreme…
Mum’s the word
Anthony Albanese can’t tell you much about his policies, but would you like to hear about his mother? The Labor…
Labor’s housing plan: the monster is in the detail
In 2010, the then Rudd government introduced a 40 per cent tax on mining companies. The tax took the form…
Krystle Mitchell on Dan Andrews and Victoria Police
[This article discusses multiple forms of trauma, including childhood trauma, sexual assault, and mental health.] I’m currently known as the…
Karl Marx wouldn’t fancy Xi Jinping
The essence of communism (in case you haven’t managed to grab a copy of Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto), is that everything…
I don’t need to be ‘welcomed’ to my country
The notion that Australians must be welcomed or invited to their own country by Indigenous leaders – as occurs at…
Decline and fall of the West
History tells us that civilisations and empires are ephemeral. Like the Egyptian civilisation, they may last for thousands of years…
Activists masquerading as educators
The recent news from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) that fewer and fewer students are choosing to study higher…
Now, everyone’s a biologist!
And just like that, bodily autonomy and women were back! With news leaking that the US Supreme Court was set…
For whom doth Ukraine’s bell toll?
Few people are better qualified than General Philip Breedlove (US) and General Sir Richard Shirreff (UK) to assess the military…
Where are those ‘money trees’ when you need them?
If only money could grow on trees. Victoria could plant a vast forest stretching to the horizon, visible from the…
Saving Private Josh
Josh Frydenberg has always been openly ambitious. Ambitious to be Member for Kooyong. Ambitious to be a minister. And ambitious…
China: an empire of debt
‘China is building an empire on debt,’ said Mark Steyn, of GB News. He is correct. Australia’s Pacific neighbour exports…
Treacherous Turnbull?
Our remarkable nation has had thirty Prime Ministers since Federation serving thirty-five separate terms of office. Elections at the national…
It’s time to vote for change
Politics has drifted a long way left since the days of Menzies and Fadden. Starting with Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser,…
Roe v. Wade v. the Rule of Law
Last year, the US Supreme Court heard an argument in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation which…
The myth of unlimited resources
Money is simply an idea. It is a shortcut to make life, not only simpler, but more dynamic. It is…
Yeah but, what about ‘back up’?
Clearly, some things are no longer up for discussion. In a current TV ad from the Clean Energy Council, there…
Albo plots against Australia’s self-employed
There’s one seemingly small ‘bit’ in Labor’s election policy that should scare the hell out of Australia’s two million-or-so self-employed…
Bring back Christianity
Around 5,000 years ago, humans mastered writing. This marked the transition from prehistory to history. It’s a fraught calculation, but…
The essential ‘activism cheat sheet’
The Trans Journalists Association has produced a style guide to help media outlets provide ‘more accurate, sensitive coverage’ of trans issues. A…
First, do no harm
As the old saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is because unintended consequences have…
