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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Hillsong Church is to blame for absolutely everything

5 January 2021 3:00 pm

Forget coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party and Climate Change: the greatest threat to Australia is Hillsong Church. If you believe…

How coronavirus controls killed my faith in the Liberal Party

5 January 2021 12:40 pm

The following is my letter of resignation from the Liberal Party. It has just been presented to the Membership Coordinator…

Eight trends to watch in 2021

5 January 2021 5:00 am

Twenty-twenty, the year of the “cool number” previously associated with the positive — perfect vision — has been anything but…

Revealed: the astounding quality of our state parliamentarians

4 January 2021 6:13 pm

From The Age: Labor upper house MP Cesar Melhem… said… some… MPs found it difficult to secure employment after… politics……

The new COVID crisis shows Victoria’s public health administration is in deadly decline

4 January 2021 1:45 pm

With the Victorian-New South Wales border shut again and the holiday plans of tens of thousands thrown into chaos it’s…

We are at war with China

4 January 2021 5:00 am

Let’s face it. We’re at war with China. Whether we like this or not ‘war’ is what it is. At this stage,…

Three decades on and John Hewson is still getting it wrong

3 January 2021 6:32 pm

Australia’s most illiberal former Liberal leader John Hewson wants governments to begin randomly testing people for coronavirus. “Is it too…

Free to air tedium

3 January 2021 3:31 pm

It is said that you get what you pay for, and as regards free to air television, truer words have…

End the misery and confusion: we need national COVID coordination

3 January 2021 11:30 am

At a time when Victorians should be celebrating the end of a horror year, thousands have cancelled their holiday plans…

How good is ScoMo’s ‘new and improved formula’ national anthem?

2 January 2021 4:38 pm

Ever since Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s (ridiculous) decision to announce via Tweet the changing of Australia’s national anthem, the usual…

Happy New Year and do what you’re told

2 January 2021 2:03 pm

While taking a rare trip one day on a suburban bus, I noticed a very small discreet sticker on the window…

Once upon a time we had a plebiscite to change the national anthem – and try telling the Premiers we are ‘one and free’

1 January 2021 4:41 pm

Australians all awoke today to discover that we are “one and free”. Yes. Just like that. Even despite the best…

2020: Orwell or Huxley?

31 December 2020 2:31 pm

One need not be a Hebrew prophet of old to be able to discern the times and give more or…

How 2020 became the year of the New Pharisees

31 December 2020 5:00 am

One of Australia’s great singer/songwriters, Paul Kelly, has a very insightful song titled, ‘Little Kings’. It’s about how “everywhere the…

Can’t get no satisfaction? Try, for a happier New Year

30 December 2020 5:00 am

The older I get, the less inclined I am to make New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps I’ve developed an unconscious superstition…

My New Year’s resolution: no more Mr Science guy

29 December 2020 1:44 pm

My New Year’s resolution for 2021 is to go full bore whacko religious on climate change.  No more Mr Science…

Fifteen reasons why Santa is a Communist

24 December 2020 4:01 pm

It’s that time of the year again to wish readers a very Merry Christmas — whatever circumstances you find yourself…

Happy Xmas (woke is over)

24 December 2020 5:00 am

To mark the end of the year that saw elected politicians of all political stripes impose what retired British top…

Palestinian kids in UN-run schools are being taught to hate and kill

23 December 2020 2:04 pm

Schools being operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency are teaching Palestinian children as young as 6 to hate,…

Celebrate Christmas

23 December 2020 5:00 am

Only two sleeps till Christmas and I just cannot wait.  I love Christmas. My fifth music album was all Christmas…

Merry Christmas corona chaos from the Premiers

22 December 2020 5:45 pm

State Premiers have rushed to support New South Wales in a show of national unity as authorities battle to control…

Why do politicians pretend they can wipe out the Wuhan virus?

22 December 2020 3:11 pm

Why do politicians so l often make decisions based not on judgement but on computer modelling?  This is notwithstanding the telling…

The Coate Report: This must never happen again. Really?

22 December 2020 12:25 pm

The Spectator Australia is first with the news. We have proved this time and again. Just yesterday, if proof were needed,…

Roll up, roll up for the 2020 Nanny State Awards – bigger and brassier than ever

22 December 2020 5:00 am

It’s never been difficult to find worthy contenders for the highly coveted Nanny State awards. But this year took nanny-stating…

Daniel Andrews: diminished, damned and disgraced

21 December 2020 3:37 pm

And so the 543-page final Report of the Coate Inquiry into Victoria’s deadly Covid-19 hotel quarantining has been tabled.  …