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Did Scott Morrison throw freedom of religion under the bus?
A Christian school valiantly tries to uphold the Christian (and scientific) view of gender. It attempts to defend the Christian…
Australian Conservatism: comfortable, relaxed and in mortal danger
A quarter of a century ago, John Howard said he wanted Australians to be comfortable and relaxed about their history,…
I want my Australia back
Happy Australia Day! (Well, it was.) The day brought me mixed feelings of pride and shame, but not in the…
Hellish roasting for Citipointe College
A Christian school catering for Christian families who value Christian education affirmed its commitment to Christianity this week, and all…
Newspeak and rewriting history
As our captured two-party system embeds robotic politicians in the parliaments, their language is drying up and becoming highly formulaic.…
White dwarfs
‘White dwarfs’. These two words could get me cancelled. Maybe I should have written about panchromatic ex-Solar System height-challenged exhausted…
How do I vote for the ‘Barty Party’?
In the contrasts between Ash Barty and Nick Kyrgios we see a little of the divisions that rend modern Australian…
A straw man defence of Dark Emu
Recently in a comment thread, a Spectator Australia reader took me to task for claiming in the promotion for my…
The road to freedom
Truckies have become a symbol of freedom for Canadians living under Justin Trudeau’s increasingly despotic medical state. 50,000 trucks –…
Australia is in love with Ash Barty
Everyone in Australia is in love with Ash Barty, and for good reason. That young lady has just won the…
The plot against natural immunity
Natural immunity is a long-held reality of the human body. Ever since disease came into this world, humans have battled…
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
The moment Mr Morrison claimed on March 18, 2020 that Covid was a once-in-100-year pandemic, an opportunity opened up for…
We are all socialists now, but weren’t we always?
Before the 2007 federal election I posited that ‘Australians are all conservatives now’ (The Australian, 20 April). It argued that thanks…
The way democracy should be
In the last two years the people of Australia, like most citizens of free and open democracies, have seen their…
The naughty underground non-compliers
You wouldn’t know it but there are thousands of naughty non-complying Victorians enjoying access to their taxpayer-funded amenities and venues.…
Small businesses languish while the government grows fat
One of the many negative corollaries of the various draconian governmental measures is the damage to small businesses. One would…
Scandalous deceit of parliament and the public
Last year the New South Wales Parliament was hoodwinked into passing draconian legislation as a result of false statistics about…
Diversity or uniformity? Muslim footballer Haneen Zreika to miss ‘Pride’ match
Haneen Zreika was the first Muslim to play in the AFLW. Debuting in 2019, the Greater Western Sydney Giant has…
A billion dollar barrier against the UN
At a time when Australian businesses and families are Covid-broke, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has casually dropped a billion dollars…
My questions for the Royal Commission into Covid…
Senator Pauline Hanson has been pushing for a Royal Commission into the government’s handling of Covid, and demand for one…
Women’s fashion – I mean – football…?
Every sensitive new age man knows that when working with women you may comment on their professional performance, but never…
Campbell Newman is asking tougher questions than the corporate media
The last two years have seen unprecedented use of the word ‘unprecedented’ by Australian journalists. Conflating the limits of their…
Victoria’s pandemic of political failure
The government’s handling of the Covid pandemic in Victoria has been deplorable. But while the temptation is to blame Daniel…
Feminism’s embarrassing fall from ‘Grace’
If the past couple of years has taught us anything, it is that the current wave of feminism has become…
Summer’s worst political commentators…
So how is your summer going? Trousers off, melting ice cream on the car seat, screaming children in the back,…
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