In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Not an April fools’ joke
Just another day at their ABC, with a typical ABC expert: Professor Danielle Celermajer leads the MultiSpecies Justice project at…
Why are we letting the Reserve Bank make housing less affordable?
It speaks volumes to the lack of ambition in the federal government that it took a first-term senator on the backbench to identify and…
Teena McQueen: in the eyes of the left, conservative women are no better than toxic males
First, it was the patriarchy’s fault. Then, it was the fault of “pale, stale, males”. Next, unsubstantiated historical allegations were…
Guys, your shirt is literally oppressing me
We have come a long way since white chalk exercised the privilege of writing on blackboards. I am pleased to…
Why we must beware American senescence
Sometime in the next five years, the Chinese economy will overtake that the United States. China’s workforce may already have…
Ministers are deciding it’s time to teach the Twits a lesson – and about time
Virtually everyone agrees (other than the psychopaths who populate its sewers) — Twitter has led to a coarsening of debate…
The left’s war against school transparency is a war against choice and quality
NAPLAN scare campaigns about the potential harm of ‘school league tables’ are little more than hot air — often whipped…
Over-egged corona claims overshadow Queensland’s Easter, make authorities look like silly bunnies
Less than a fortnight after Queensland Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeannette Young promised Queenslanders there would be no more citywide…
The real Dark Mofo scandal? Its search for shock over substance
Dark Mofo is one of a few — if not the only– arts festival in Australia that still could be…
Whatever happened to responsibility?
In 2009, I became aware, via media reports, of the death of David Iredale, a perfectly fit and healthy 17…
The hills are alive with the sound of white supremacy
The story of the present times is the never-ending race to out-idiot each other on the way to the bottom: The…
Body politics
It’s my observation that most women come at politics from a fundamentally different perspective than men – as they do…
The women’s reshuffle
Do a word search of the transcript of the Prime Minister’s reshuffle press conference yesterday and you will find the…
Trapped in the People’s Republic of Wikipedia
I’m starting to learn what it might be like to live in China but fortunately my experience is actually pretty benign. I’m in a sort…
The school curriculum must focus on learning, not indoctrination
Calls to mandate what is described as ‘consent education’ in the national school curriculum represents the most recent example of…
Scott Morrison is being convicted of the crime of being a decent man
Compare the pair: Scott Morrison and Bill Clinton. Morrison, a prime minister undergoing a horror stretch of what seems a…
You reap what you sow: why Christian Porter may lose his defamation case
You may recall the Attorney-General’s appearance on Q&A in 2015. There Christian Porter metaphorically threw all male victims of domestic violence…
The Greens’ education policy is already paying dividends
Another Sunday, another piss and wind mailout to the Greens Party membership and camp followers — but one with a…
Stumblin’ Joe Biden: what I know about women
Biology is no match for ideology in Joe Biden’s America, where the President this week insisted “there’s not a single…
Sunday means Spectator Australia TV
Sunday is Spectator Australia TV, so what are you waiting for? Sit back and enjoy the latest show, featuring special…
For those who dare because it’s there
Russia is a weird place – not that anyone can blame them. It is an insane landmass, brutalised by geography…
The Greens: if you don’t go commando a child in Africa will die. Or something
My parents used to encourage me to eat my vegetables because “there are children starving in Africa”, as if my…
Quotas are trash
I’m sorry, but being in possession of a pair of chest-feeders should not double as a political qualification. There is…
Daniel Andrews’ monument to madness
The Premier of Victoria has morphed into a monument maker. The bricks and mortar of this statue are the vanity…
Flood plains are for – gasp – floods
Natural flood plains form where floods spread silt and mud in river valleys. Being flat, fertile, picturesque and usually supplied…