In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
A champion versus champion bigotry
Margaret Court is not only Australia’s greatest ever tennis player, but she is also proving to be something of a…
MasterChef is deeply, deeply racist. Apparently…
Next time an Asian makes the final of MasterChef, I’m turning the TV off. If my team – by which…
Coronavirus, climate and China: can we afford to fight three wars at once?
Australian politicians are trying to maintain their never-ending climate war on carbon fuels while waging a lockdown war on the…
Peter Ridd loses, we all lose
On 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when…
The D10: decoupling from China
God knows there has not been much good news of any sort in 2020, so whatever there is deserves wider…
Coronavirus and the public toilet theory of human behaviour
Looking around the world, some of the nations first hit by Covid-19 are well on the road to economic recovery…
Peter Ridd and James Cook University: the Federal Court delivers a devastating blow against free speech
The Federal Court has devastating blow against mainstream Australians, against freedom of speech and against freedom of speech on climate…
Official: “Sport Australia has not defined the term ‘woman'”
Should women and girls have to share change rooms and toilets with people with male genitals? Is it okay for…
The other virus
The barbarians are not at the gate. The barbarians are manning the gate. And they decide who gets in and who stays in. …
Smoke clouding the judgement of health bureaucrats
There was a deafening roar last week caused by Australia’s tobacco control experts congratulating themselves on the latest national smoking results. You…
COVIDSafe is grossly flawed – an update
You read about it first in the SpecOz back on April 28 when I outlined the obvious limitations of the…
Is Dan Andrews using coronavirus as cover for war on the self-employed
Does Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’ want to make being your own boss illegal? There’s mounting evidence. With the second big…
Mad F***ing Boycotts
“There’s no such thing as cancel culture,” scream wide-eyed mad witches atop their broomsticks while simultaneously insisting that all middle-aged…
On radical centralism
It’s an interesting point in time when a non-ideological and non-partisan stance becomes radical. That seems to be the point…
Sorry Alan, but Modern Monetary Theory is a load of cobblers
Alan Kohler considers the current crisis provides the ideal laboratory for applying the catchily titled Modern Monetary Theory — MMT. …
Coronavirus can’t stop crazy social policies in Danandrewstan
Victoria’s new race-based parliament, The First Nation’s Assembly of Victoria, has voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution to establish a ‘Truth-Telling…
Who killed Red Pill lawyer Marc Angelucci – and why?
On the Saturday before last, July 11, just before 4 pm, my dear and wonderful friend Marc Angelucci was at…
Better targeted coronavirus cash is needed to avoid worse economic contagion
Tapering — rather than topping up — income support is key to sustainably and compassionately backing Australia’s vulnerable households and…
Gentleness is much needed in our restless world
On a solitary walk, I encountered two families. The parents in the first family were upbraiding their daughter —…
Here is a coronavirus update from your friendly public health experts
Hello. We’re from the government: And we’re here to confuse help you: Illustration: Katja Motion Picture Corporation/Krevoy/Stabler/Wessler Production/New Line Cinema.…
The self-interested inconsistencies of the RMIT-ABC Fact Check unit
Two years ago the opposition was pushing a the-government-has-cut-funding line for aged care. It was a lie, of course, and,…
Australia is out of touch with world tobacco harm reduction policy
At least in the United States and Australia, the systems of government are similar. Barring parliament and constitutional monarchism, both…
How coronavirus is killing small business – and threatening our values
The heart of the Australian way of life is under threat with small businesses fighting for survival as lockdown restrictions…
What’s racist this week?
Your woke correspondent has emerged this week from hibernation into the light of a brave new Wokeworld where white people are clambering over…
Lauren Southern: keep the theatre of cancel culture off the Australian political stage
Earlier last year I stepped away from politics in a bid to focus on family. What most people didn’t know…