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Spectator Australia TV – how much longer will the corona craziness continue?
It’s been just over a year since the Wuhan coronavirus changed the world as we know it. Back then, only…
Prince Philip, climate sceptic, already spinning in his grave
Prince Philip was a climate change sceptic. In correspondence to Spectator Australia contributor and author Ian Plimer back in 2018,…
A farewell to the Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip once said that his job – first, second and last – was ‘to never let the Queen down’.…
What’s woke this week?
In the new woke order racism is everywhere. Systems of law hide ‘coded language’ and discrimination. Educational institutions deliver ‘unequal…
Why do activists only want a certain type of woman in politics?
“Women are hard on women. Women dislike women.” — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. Over the last century,…
Vaccine ‘passports’: a legal and ethical minefield
On Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined his ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown. An important aspect of this plan is…
JobKeeper: dead, buried, cremated - and irrelevant
The corona-crisis has given birth to a mishmash of public policy programs with ‘Job’ in the title, but there is…
The Cuba of the Southern Hemisphere?
Ever since the radical privately-funded and owned Museum of Old and New Art, MONA, opened, Tasmania has gone through first…
The Tax Office gives the gold finger to process and justice
How would you feel if you owed the Australian Taxation Office nothing—in fact the ATO owed you money—yet on the…
Australians don’t want Big Tech censoring their views
In a world of rampant nanny-statism, and hectoring busybodies, Australians want social media to companies to leave them alone. The…
Their ABC’s divine comedy
ABC viewers have complained that the public broadcaster showed footage of Hillsong easter services rather than focusing on “mainstream churches”.…
Women are dangerous
No one has done more damage to the employment prospects of young women than Labor and their feminist activist mates. …
Trick question: why test brick wall with head?
The late and great American columnist Charles Krauthammer reminded his readers that to understand politics you have to remember that…
Why aren’t we including porn in debate over ‘toxic culture’?
The Canberra Bubble has become the unlikely setting for a conflict that had to come – between the desiccated descendants…
We can’t consent to this traducing of the law
Anyone who denies that the push by activists to redefine consent is politically motivated is either naïve or a liar. …
Sorry, Twits, but Newspoll doesn’t mean the PM’s swinging in the breeze
It’s bad news for the Morrison Government. Australians have turned, almost everywhere. Just look at the figures below. Interesting poll,…
The Morrison government needs a hard jab over vaccination levels
The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines across Australia is behind time, behind volume and well behind the expectations the Morrison government…
Tonight’s viewing: Malcolm on the Outer
From Wikipedia: Malcolm in the Middle, sorry, Malcolm on the Outer. The series follows a dysfunctional working class family [THE LIBERAL PARTY]…
Carla, darling
In the days when executive’s wives had their own expense accounts and led glamorous lives that entailed Rose Balls at…
The World Health Organisation must clean up its act
As virulent new Covid-19 strains continue to ravage the world, a draft copy of a joint WHO-China report now concludes that the pandemic…
Where are our conservative heroes?
The federal parliament’s pre-Budget recess carries with it crucial significance this year. It comes at a time when the Morrison…
The Spectator Australia TV Easter’s special
In our Easter special, CounterCulture is doubling down on our war on wokeness, taking a hard look at the most…
Andrew Bolt and the message of Easter
Dear Mr Bolt I recently watched a segment you did with Paul Barnett, the former Anglican Bishop of North Sydney,…
The joke’s on the Peter Dutton haters. Again
To anyone sane, Peter Dutton is the Minister for Defence. To the loony left, he is Satan with a shaved…
Labor loses the Palestinian plot
The Australian Labor Party has now adopted former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘unconditional recognition’ of Palestine as well as…
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