In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
What will a Mark McGowan landslide mean for religious freedom?
This Saturday, West Australians go to the polls. All the indications are that the McGowan Labor government will be re-elected…
Meghan and Harry: Ultimate Survivors
Poor Meghan and Harry. Forget surviving wars, famines and droughts, even the ravages of the long-running Survivor television show. Are…
Neither age nor bureaucracy will condemn them: Anzac marches must be on
Barring further acts of political cowardice, Australians will commemorate Anzac Day 2021 as they have done for almost 106 years.…
Megan and Harry: don’t say we (or Mark Latham, actually) didn’t warn you
Mark Latham, The Spectator Australia, 26 May 2018: The former NSW Premier Neville Wran had an interesting take on the…
Fighting over chips: why Taiwan matters
Throughout the course of human history, there have been wars over land, water, food, commodities and even pride. Unless there…
No one was saved
“I look at all the lonely people…” Attorney-General Christian Porter is no doubt desperately clinging on to friends, as too…
Thorns among the roses: Dave Sharma’s International Women’s Day debacle
Liberal politician Dave Sharma handed out pink flowers on International Women’s Day, sending all the petals on Twitter into a…
Daniel Andrews’ corroborree of jobbery. Part III: the gold rush
“Yet out of the very roots of the grass we shake gold. We can see the particles shining as we…
Ban the swastika
Free speech purists might fret that a law banning the display of Nazi symbols – even though distasteful – amounts…
How Daniel Andrews can still control Victoria – even once he’s gone
Last sitting week the Victorian Government, with support of most of the opposition, placed a ban on fracking in the…
Time to stop standover tactics by the Tax Office against small business
The Federal government’s small business agency, the Small Business Ombudsman, has called for major changes to the way the Australian Taxation…
This week on Spectator Australia TV
Here it is – the latest episode of Spectator Australia TV and CounterCulture. While you’re there don’t forget to subscribe…
Why is the Pope trolling Traditional Catholics?
In Rome in October 2019 a young traditional or ‘Trad’ Catholic man grabbed several small Amazonian ‘mother earth’ statues from a church near the Vatican and threw them into the River Tiber. The five small wooden statues had…
The Brownshirts have gone digital and they’ve cancelled Grandpa
The Brownshirts are back and this time they’re digital, best exemplified on 18 February when 22-year-old student activist Momoko Nojo…
Writers block
Was it Snoopy who said Being-A-Writer means never having to complete your novel? I’ve been thinking a lot about being…
The ABC wants to redefine ‘paedophilia’ for the sake of sensitivity?
The problem with so-called Progressives is that the very term they use to describe themselves begs a question that they…
It’s only a small business
Covid is a mismanaged economic disaster that has done more damage to the financial, social, ethical, and legal structure of…
Nice try, China, but I’m proud you think I’m a scumbag
Lunar New Year is as good a time as any to commend your friends and threaten your enemies, all in…
Their ABC isn’t in bed with the left? Yeah, right
“Our ABC is independent”, they claim. “A national treasure”, “independent”, “unbiased”, “worth every cent”, on and on, blah blah, they…
Don’t let the law become a political weapon
The presumption of innocence is one of the bedrock principles of the Australian legal system. In fact, near-universal support for…
What’s woke this week?
The woke Stasi’s not–so–secret police have been out in force recently: a bit of psychological harassment here, a bit of agitprop there, virtue…
The ‘court of public opinion’ is nothing but mob rule
During Christian Porter’s press conference which turned into a blood sport yesterday, two journalists in particular insisted that the Attorney-General…
Malcolm and Kevin, the Tinfoil Twins
The more I look at Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd these days, the more I think that ancient Greeks were…
Sorry Christian, but it’s time to take one for the team
His name is now officially out. The Christian Porter allegation is, like other recent tales from Canberra, a very sad…
Effective aged care reform requires smart thinking, not just a spending spree
The kneejerk media and political reaction to the report of the Royal Commission into aged care released this week is to accept it has made the case…
