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A development binge and budget fears cloud Canberra’s looming Legislative Assembly poll
With the ACT election six just days away, Canberrans, however deep their Labor loyalties, are beginning –just — to realise…
How to win your campus elections: a guide
It’s election season on Australian university campuses. So you want to be elected as a student representative at your university’s student association…
A republic – or Krazy King Kev?
Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, and Peter FitzSimons all fancy themselves Australia’s next king. Not as a constitutional monarch with limited…
On this International Day of the Girl Child, we must condemn the insidious violence of sex-selective abortion
Today is the International Day of the Girl Child, an opportunity to address the unique challenges girls face around the…
Peta Credlin stood up for accountability. We don’t know about Twitter has-beens, but that’s what all good journos do
Forget that a bungled hotel quarantine program led to the deaths of 800 largely helpless Victorians. The real scandal is…
Death of a feminist
I have written before about Hot for Teacher. The Van Halen guitar rock megahit was a touchstone for cultural norms…
Budget 2020: Government keeps feeding poison to the power system
The budget allocated $8.7 million to assist the Vales Point generator in New South Wales in a $100 million upgrade…
She’s made a career from her terrible choices in men – so of course Taylor Swift is backing Biden
Taylor Swift — who has made a career of writing songs about her terrible choices in men — has officially…
How lockdown left 1.25 million school students behind
New Centre for Independent Stuides research confirms the breadth of educational damage of school closures — especially troubling for Victorian…
Critical theory 101 with Clementine Ford
What a Friday treat. There is nothing quite as satisfying as watching the left eat its own. Latest in…
Budget 2020: Is anyone brave enough to mention immigration?
Even before the Wuhan coronavirus spread into Australia and derailed almost 30 years of “uninterrupted economic growth”, there was a growing sense…
Budget 2020: Josh, re-read Reagan
In 1987 a very important volume appeared by economic historian Roberts Higgs entitled Crisis and Leviathan. Although packed with a…
Bye-bye, oh sweet Eskimo Pie
Stop right there and put down that chocolate-coated ice cream treat! It’s not just sugar that is dripping from those…
V FOR VICTORY: Liberty wins as Daniel Andrews surrenders over his indefinite detention bill
After calling for the release of the amendments to COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill the Spectator Australia has now received…
Budget 2020: Whatever happened to the Josh Frydenberg who believed in less government?
In the week of the Budget with all the talk about Australia’s finances, one thing is for sure – the endless spendathon has continued. It is no…
REVEALED: Get set for debt ’til 2080
Australia is unlikely to be debt-free until 2080 as a result of the lockdowns implemented in response to COVID-19. The…
Budget 2020: the wrong type of compassion
Federal Budget day is a political commentators’ wet dream. It’s also a spectator’s sport for any politics junkie watching ABC…
BREAKING: Wham, bam, we’ve whacked Dan – and his hateful indefinite detention bill
The Spectator Australia’s campaign against the heinous Covid-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill that attacked the civil liberties and rights of…
Budget 2020: too much spending, too little reform
The Budget is too focused on the short-term, too heavy on spending and too light on permanent structural reform, Centre…
If Labor ever wants to be trusted with the economy, then Labor MPs should learn how tax rates work
The federal budget’s failure to fund adult remedial math will surely hurt the future prospects of Labor MP Joanne Ryan.…
The(ir) ABC’s gimmicky gotcha budget broadcast
In her post-budget interview with Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, ABC 7.30 anchor, Leigh Sales, seriously embarrassed herself and her viewers. Sales…
The Budget’s new normal remains rooted in the real world
Whatever else one can say about tonight’s federal Budget, at least Josh Frydenberg has held the line firm against the…
Capslock campaigning
Last night, President Donald Trump ran a little experiment on us. It came in the form of rapid-fire CAPSLOCK tweets,…
Lidia Thorpe: trying to change the system from within?
Imagine loathing a country so much that you take a seat in its parliament. Step forward Lidia Thorpe, Richard Di…
Chairman Dan flunks corona class. Again
You’ll recall our little reality check from a fortnight ago after Newspoll found 62 per cent of Victorian voters believe…
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