In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Electric vehicles are bad for our economic climate
Lockdowns and regulations are plaguing Australians and putting a damper on our moods. Many are bearing the brunt of unemployment—or…
The Greens still seem to like a lot about Julian Burnside
Despite accusations of anti-Semitism directed at St Julian of Burnside and his blessed bride Kate Durham, the Greens still seem…
Using your equity in retirement
Australia has had a national age pension since 1909. Introduced by the government of prime minister Andrew Fisher, it mostly…
Be fit to fight Covid coercion. Get vaccinated
It is quite clear that governments around the world are going to mandate vaccine passports for certain purposes in coming…
You go, girl! Laurel Hubbard and the other trans Olympians
You’ve got to give it to Shania Twain. When she belted out her 1997 hit, Man! I feel like a woman! she…
Generation Z is fighting back against the left establishment
In 2020 I served as school captain at one of Sydney’s all-boys catholic schools. This position took me to the…
A judge has found the National Cabinet isn’t a cabinet, so let’s put it out of its misery
Senator Rex Patrick is your typical independent Senate crossbench ambulance chaser. Having been carried into parliament on the long-receded Nick…
How the Daniel Andrews approach leads to further lockdowns
When Daniel Andrews — like other premiers — asks for a specific vaccine to fast track Victoria’s vaccination programs and…
Plague rats
Dear readers, it has been a while. I’d like to invite you all out for a coffee, but under the…
What’s woke this week?
I increasingly feel like I’m in the middle of that darkly satiric Edgar Allan Poe story, The System of Doctor…
Wham, bam, thank you Dan! Welcome to Lockdown VI
Victorians are about to plunge into Lockdown VI. Lockdowns are like The Fast and the Furious series of films. The…
The West must disown Big Tech Big Brother
Almost three weeks ago, Twitter suspended The Spectator Australia for 12 hours for a Tweet that paraphrased that wildly incendiary…
Canberra’s coronawaffle
Prime Minister Scott Morrison cannot make a clear and succinct statement. He is a word-waffler — and this is a…
Why is Adam Bandt treading so carefully over the Julian Burnside ugliness?
That great humanitarian and soi-distant Jew baiter St Julian of Burnside has said he will not contest the seat of…
All deaths are equal, but some are more equal than others – part two
The conclusion to a two-piece article. About 10.1mn people are estimated to have died from all causes in India in 2020, and…
Compelling children to wear masks
Should small children and even teenagers be compelled to wear masks against the Coronavirus variants? Given the pandemic in the…
Laurel Hubbard? No thank you
The footage today of three of the strongest women in the world politely declining to comment on the entrance of a male into their sport…
Governments might refuse to acknowledge the devastation of lockdown, but the top end of town is talking
One would be hard-pressed to find many silver linings as millions of Australians endured further lockdowns in July, but the admission by many business…
All deaths are equal, but some are more equal than others
Part one of a two-piece article. From the start, those sceptical of lockdowns for managing the coronavirus pandemic have offered three complementary…
Covid and the new class divides
I fought class identity for most of my life. For some reason, I believed it was something that held people…
No Newspoll? Don’t worry, political junkies. You can still get your Essential fix
Political junkies hanging out for a Newspoll yesterday or today have been disappointed, but won’t need to go completely cold…
Seven reasons why Scott Morrison is likely to lose the next election
Hello August 2021, that disappointing sequel to 2020. Or perhaps we’re actually in the 20th month of 2020 – Augustember.…
Will big financial institutions destroy our resources sector before the Greens?
Last month Paul Kelly wrote that Australia was being inescapably propelled to adopting a Net Zero CO2 emissions policy, not by…
Why haven’t we heard more from the human rights bureaucracy about Covid and our liberties?
Just about everyone would agree that a child born in Australia should have the same opportunities and rights as any…
Ivermectin and the doctor-patient relationship
At the outset, let’s make one thing clear. I do not share the absolute conviction of some who advocate the…
