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The WHO has let the cat out of the bag: COVID-19 is now more about politics than public health
The World Health Organisation’s Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last Friday that “we will not – we cannot – go back…
The Bushfires Royal Commission: saving reputations, not lives and property
The Interim Observations of the Bushfires Royal Commission are extremely disturbing. Not because they reveal any frightening facts about climate…
Extra infrastructure spending won’t build a road out of the corona recession
Increased government spending on infrastructure has been proposed yet again to revive the economy from the government-imposed recession. The latest…
Daniel Andrews’ deplorables moment
The clock has struck thirteen in Victoria and no man, woman, or child is free. Writing this sentence, according to…
Superannuation reform requires more than putting lipstick on a pig
H.L. Mencken once wrote that “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”. But when…
Great Barrier Reef platitudes: more dangerous than sharks
It has always been the case that the individual is expected to conform and that there is hierarchy within myths.…
What you didn’t hear at the Press Club last week
Last week Wang Xining, China’s Deputy Chief of Mission in Canberra, addressed the National Press Club, a speech widely reported…
Forget the Wuhan flu, the Chi Comm virus is a bigger threat to our way of life
Over the last six months, we have witnessed an unprecedented global outbreak of politicians and journalists declaring how much they…
Corona crisis-mongering is scaring our kids to death
Enough with playing politics with people’s lives and gambling with mental health. The majority of the country may well have…
Justice delayed and delayed – then delayed by coronavirus
One of the “much loved and respected“ inmates of Hobart’s Risdon women’s prison, Sue Neill-Fraser, has had to keep deferring her hope…
Why is it ‘critique’ when leftists cut close to the bone – and cause for outrage if it comes from the right
It’s no secret, that I generally prefer news commentary I see on Sky News, in the Daily Telegraph, The Australian, and Quadrant—and naturally, I find The Spectator very informative. The reason…
Trump’s RNC speech: the great middle America gamble
The Orange Man is cheating. He’s Teleprompter Trump but we want Rally Trump crazy that will play badly on middle…
Appointing Tony Abbott to the Board of Trade is an inspired move by Boris
Whatever one thinks of the reported appointment by Boris Johnson of Tony Abbott as a Co-President of the Board of…
Coronavirus: a look at the numbers that matter
If there is one thing that has been missing from the public discussion on Covid-19 it’s a meaningful interpretation of the numbers. Day by day…
Why bother with real change when a Facebook like will do?
Have you ever wondered how different the world would be if the passengers on Rosa Parks’ bus had iPhones? Probably…
Bette Midler: the malicious model of a modern ‘progressive’
Hollywood legend Bette Midler has become the embodiment of everything she professes to hate. The actress who has spent the…
Larissa Water’s gender politics versus fair Family Court outcomes
“The important thing is not to stop questioning,” said Albert Einstein. Can we please apply this simple logic to the…
Minimising Covid-19 pain
The current Covid-19 worldwide pandemic is causing a huge amount of pain. In some countries only moderate pain, in others…
Farewell to the no-go logo
The Morrison Government is moving to eradicate a new Australia logo that bears an uncanny resemblance to the Coronavirus just…
The left are the real conspiracy theorists
Conspiracy theories are a cultural phenomenon of the 20th and 21st centuries which conceptualise a set up by a corrupt,…
You don’t need to like Clive Palmer to dislike his arbitrary treatment
The Western Australian government’s draconian legislation passed this month to extinguish the legal rights of Clive Palmer and his flagship…
Has Daniel Andrews embraced the divine right of kings?
Back in 44 B.C Julius Caesar declared himself dictator perpetuo, dictator for life. On Monday, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews did much…
How global Wuhaning led to Greta’s goodbye
World leaders stole her childhood and now coronavirus has stolen her crisis. So there’s nothing left for activist Greta Thunberg…
What’s woke this week?
Making woke news this past week has been the terrible tyranny of the colouring book, as well as white vegans…
Want to fight back against weak woke coporates? There’s an app for that – or could be
Veteran culture commentator Mark Steyn exposed the Republican Party’s general lack of spine when it comes to the culture wars…
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