In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Did we learn anything from 2021?
The last two years have been packed with chaos. Politicians have gone mad with power. Division has run rife throughout…
Vale Christian Kerr
It is with profound sadness that I must inform the family of Spectator Australia writers, readers and fans of the…
I won’t take the vaccine, here’s why
I won’t take a COVID vaccine. Here’s why. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris formalised American independence from Great Britain.…
Christian Kerr
As you’ll have seen from Rowan Dean’s announcement yesterday, our hitherto anonymous online editor, Christian Kerr, custodian of Flat White,…
Woke work is unhappy work
The more that we talk about work/life balance and diverse and inclusive workplaces, the unhappier we seem to be. Over…
Remembering Adam Smith before it’s too late
Adam Smith in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, marvelled at…
Notre Damn
If anything could tempt a vengeful god out of silence, it might be the unholy restoration plans for Notre Dame. …
Unhealthy public health
There was a time when public health people made a major contribution to our lives – ensuring the water in…
Omicron demonstrates the futility of mandatory vaccines
International travel has been restricted to fully vaccinated people for quite some time. It appears that the new coronavirus variant,…
Here’s to the risk takers
In the 1870s and 80s, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge was one of the engineering landmarks of the day.…
Vaccine mandates are as queer as a clockwork orange
What if I told you there was a way to end crime forever? That there was the possibility to eliminate…
Big tech, big target, good politics
Scott Morrison is going troll hunting. Well, there’s more in his announcement of new laws targeting social media and the…
How we hope to hold people responsible for the hotel quarantine disaster: people, not just bureaucracies
In late September this year efforts bore fruit to require WorkSafe Victoria to prosecute government agencies and individuals over the…
Dan and Albo’s barbie: hard to swallow
While thousands of Victorians were marching on Parliament to protest Daniel Andrews’ pandemic legislation, the man himself was staging the…
The curious case of Joe Gersh and his defence of Ita Buttrose
The repeated efforts of ABC Director Joe Gersh to defend his Chairperson, Ita Buttrose, are as laughable as they are…
Religious discrimination legislation? What next? ‘No jabber (in tongues), no job’?
People are right to be concerned that happy-clapper, sky fairy worshipping freaks will use the government’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill…
The Dan Andrews protests v polls conundrum
Ever since the Newspoll results on Saturday, I’ve been wracking (and wrecking) my brain trying to find a logical answer…
A Minister for Loneliness?
As the segregated Victorian population emerged into a state full of smoke and mirrors last week, something else also swirled into…
Vaccine mandates? Get knotted
I have a friend who has not been vaccinated. He was advised by his doctor not to have the jab. …
New Human Rights Commissioner warns on vaccine mandates
Further to my piece yesterday about the Federal Attorney-General, Michaelia Cash, going missing when requested by the Fair Work Commission to…
Liberal support is disintegrating – but barely going to Hanson, Palmer or the LDP
If you follow The Guardian Australia’s overexcited live politics blog and dip in and out of Twitter, this week’s parliamentary…
Supervised contact is state-imposed parental alienation
There’s a thriving multi-million-dollar business at the heart of our family law system which provides a classic example of how…
Medicare rebates for genetic testing during IVF: blessing or blight?
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt recently announced that from November 1 Australians going through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) will be able to…
Why are we borrowing from Build Back Better?
Seventeen Nobel winning American economists have said that the Biden Administration’s $1.7 trillion “Build Back Better” program, will increase growth…
Religious freedom legislation? Yes, because Australians need freedom from the tyranny of equity
A few weeks ago I went to a Liberal Party women’s high tea at the invitation of a Christian friend.…
