In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Does Daniel Andrews have new bars on free speech coming?
In 2018 a Scottish comedian was convicted of a hate crime after filming his girlfriend’s pug performing the Nazi salute…
Spectator Australia TV: The left are miserable and want to make us miserable
The left are miserable and want to make us miserable. Wokeism is the next airborne disease we should all be…
What’s woke this weekend?
We have our finger on the pulse of wokism here at The Spectator Australia and this week we’ll answer some…
Peacock feathers
Spectator readers are a civilised lot, and no doubt their mothers told them “If you don’t have anything nice to…
Sailors and half-clad women? No! Whoever would have thought of it?
To twerk or not to twerk? That is the question. I wonder what the Bard would think? Australia has its…
You won’t be missed tomorrow, Meghan
As members of the Royal family gather to mourn and celebrate the remarkable life of Prince Philip it is entirely…
Be careful who you’re calling racist
When Swinburne University academic Dr Stephane Shepherd co-authored a paper with fellow Swinburne scholar Dr Benjamin Spivak on the high…
Big government is watching you
Sexual issues have come to dominate the news cycle. This week’s headlines have been dominated by Christine Holgate. Last week…
Magda versus the Morrisons – and more
On A Current Affair Magda Szubanski said it was ok for her to criticize Jenny Morrison because of the growing…
Twerking towards Gomorrah
Against my better judgement, I watched on as a bunch of scantily clad performers in red and black tights, topped…
China is focused on import quotas, Australia is focused on gender quotas.
Hubris. A noun meaning overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance. From the Ancient Greek describing a personality quality of extreme or…
Beware claims of a gender electoral apocalypse
“Women abandon Coalition in droves“, a headline says in The Australian today. The story covers data from the Australian Leadership…
I’m not going to play the victim
As a young girl in the eighties, I had the freedom to be who I wanted to be. I wasn’t…
The racism pandemic is nothing but rehashed Marxist class warfare
You have no doubt noticed over the past few years – but accelerating wildly and widely in the last one…
Tough love: don’t be a fake
This is the first of a regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and…
Christine Holgate is a victim of Scott Morrison’s lack of principle, not her gender
My take on the current Christine Holgate saga is a bit pendulum-like. I thought, and think, that the furore over…
Inconvenient truths about impoverished women and privileged men
Women, women, women. Aren’t you sick to death of hearing about women? Endless bleating about women’s tough lives, whining about…
Christine Holgate: the latest cannon fodder for the left’s misogyny narrative
In Senate Estimates hearings today Christine Holgate said she was “humiliated” by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Therefore, apparently, he is confirmed…
Black real estate matters
SpecOz readers would have seen yesterday’s reports about Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors and her real estate binge-buying, which…
Aboriginal imprisonment: don’t confuse a social issue with a justice issue
Those who insist that too many indigenous people are in jail confuse a social issue with a justice issue, and…
Fourth time lucky with Victorian hotel quarantine?
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Last Thursday, the Victorian government restarted its Covid hotel quarantine program. This is the fourth…
Woke@work – and joyless, mistrustful, dispiriting and dreary
Just as I was celebrating the fact that in ditching Turnbull from the ridiculous New South Wales climate job the…
When we are old: dignity in aged care
Over the last year, a huge proportion of the residents in the aged care facilities around our country did not…
Captain America versus… Jordan Peterson?
The progressives’ latest offering of ‘woker-tainment’ shows they are more interested in political posturing than creating beautiful or meaningful art. …
Jim Molan determined to win the fight of his life
There are times when a battle needs to be fought and mates need to stand up and be counted. Many…