In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
We need more George Christensens in public life
I’m saddened to see my friend George Christensen bowing out of parliament at the next election. But much of our…
Despite the premiers, we all march on Anzac Day
After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, Australian troops will be back home within months. They will not all return.…
Why do our black lives matter warriors ignore the deaths on our doorstep, in PNG?
Just to Australia’s north across a contiguous border, tens of thousands of Papua New Guineans are at constant risk from…
Now even the budget is a tool of the Coalition’s evil oppression of women. Apparently…
Sections of mainstream media, including the(ir) ABC, The Guardian Australia and the Channel Nine chip-wrappers are desperately attempting to build a gendered narrative ahead…
How about some right-minded activism in schools?
Fans of Geraldine Massey’s What’s Woke this Week columns know the woke world coughs up absurdities so ludicrous they’re funny. These…
The Morrison Government: we must spend money in order to save it
On Tuesday I wrote here, I wrote about the values vacuity of Prime Minister Morrison and his Government. Then, yesterday,…
That crackers consent ad? Blame the left for sanitising sex
Once upon a time, many moons ago, sex was sex and a milkshake was a milkshake. Now we’ve moved into this…
Climate follies: more than half a billion new spending to keep Joe Biden off our backs
The Government is desperate to appear to be doing more in the run-up to Joe Biden’s Climate Summit for Thursday…
Don’t forget the media’s part in our ongoing corona confusion
For the past year, Australians have been told to listen to the experts. Schools were closed, businesses were forced to…
Be warned: you come for Jane Austen at your peril
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woke society in possession of literary masterpieces must be in want of…
What’s philosopher-king Kev up to nowadays?
It was on this day in 2008 where that gathering of the best and brightest from across the land —…
It’s Oscar season - and the season for the wokesploitation film
Films have always been political in how they mirror a world marred by contemporary politics and history. When done really…
The Taiwan test
Russia is massing troops on the borders of the Ukraine at the same time the Chinese are increasing their unauthorised…
The Hansel and Gretel house of transgenderism
I was this week given cause to reflect how many years it has been since I read the story of Hansel and…
Dutton earns his stripes over unit citations
Peter Dutton has stamped his authority on his new portfolio in a way that demonstrates that he is a leader who is prepared to…
Peter Dutton makes his mark
Peter Dutton failed as health minister, was typecast as home affairs minister, but in the defence portfolio he is already…
It’s about time Scott Morrison stood for more than just not being Labor
There are some who get it and there are many who don’t. Sadly, our elected class are significantly over-represented by…
Why we need a manufacturing sector
Since the year 2000 something has gone wrong in Australia. As it happens, this was two years after the old…
EXPOSED: The Chinese Communist Party and Australia’s universities
“In my opinion, it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery”…
You can’t truly love the planet unless you kill like Ghengis Khan
I will be honest, I double-checked the date when I saw an article from the Guardian titled, ‘Why Genghis Khan…
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…
