In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The global media calls out Australia’s repressive Covid order
For students of democracy and foreign policy, Australia has been experiencing interesting times in the last two years. All countries devote enormous effort and considerable resources to…
Zeros as heroes
Absolutism is stalking the land. Extreme policies are being proposed and justified as the only possible response considering the supposedly…
Our media is shrugging off its duty to hold governments and their agencies to account
The pandemic has revealed many cracks in our society, not least of all in our media. One reality that can…
Where do we stand after Afghanistan?
It is a strange and curious fact that moments of seismic historical significance are so often capable of being reduced…
Why this social conservative might just vote for the Liberal Democrats
Being the discerning lot that they are, Spectator Australia readers would have by now worked out that I am a social…
Adam Bandt: “We should be campaigning side by side with socialists”
Greens leader Adam Bandt last week gave an interview to American left magazine Jacobin (the name says all you need…
Black Hawk up
Footage of the Taliban performing a victory flight in an American Black Hawk helicopter triggered hopes of a Biden resignation. …
The agender of the ABC
My attention is repeatedly and reluctantly draw to the ongoing focus of the ABC to rid women of traditional and…
The UN says no coal by 2030
Reminding us of what a difference a year makes was yesterday’s exhortation by UN Climate Action Team head Selwyn Hart, that…
The strange Tassie death cult
Death Cult: “A fringe religious group that is obsessed with death.” Or, if you prefer, the Tasmanian Greens. With just…
Andrews’ weakness is his conceit, but can the Liberals take down Goliath?
Good polls come and go. Bad polls linger for longer than most would like, but only rarely do leaders grow…
Matthew Guy and Michael O’Brien: the raindrop race
Did you ever have raindrop races when you were a child; pick a raindrop on a window with a sibling,…
Tough Love: Covid-19 and the racism of low expectations
A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…
Remember when we respected the police?
Aren’t members of the police force Australian citizens too? Citizens who have families and are also hurting because of the…
There’s nothing Liberal about the Liberal Party
John Ruddick is the Liberal Democrat Party candidate for the Senate. He recently wrote in these pages about the just-passed…
Identity politics is a threat to societies
Identity politics has been weaponised to sow division across the Western world. Global outrage over the killing of George Floyd…
Death, Covid and freedom
Let’s talk about death — because until we do talk about death we will never be free of the fear…
EXCLUSIVE: Fair Work Ombudsman leaves voluntary workers in the cold over jabs
At a time when Australians are facing the prospect of losing work and opportunities based on their vaccination status, you…
Feminists throw children under the bus
There’s no end to the dreadful chicanery being used to prop up the feminist narrative of virtuous women and villainous…
All cows are green
Growing trees need three essentials – radiant energy from the sun, CO2 and rain from the atmosphere, and nutrients and…
Vaccine passport restrictions are constitutionally invalid. Here’s why
Australian governments are now starting to impose vaccination orders as the way out of lockdowns. They have decided that people…
Kiwis want elimination, and nothing but elimination
Yesterday, the New Zealand Herald published the findings of an opinion poll it commissioned as a wave of the Delta…
What’s woke this week?
The more I research stories from Wokeworld the more I conclude that they’ve just got to be pulling our collective…
In Gladystopia men can now be Woman of the Year
Based on biology and genetic makeup a woman is a woman and a man is a man. No longer, according…
Lockdowns: an alibi for government to shun scrutiny of neglect of public health preparedness
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ monthly update on mortality has the eye-catching statistic that in every single week from 1…
