In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Why the ABC shouldn’t just receive a funding freeze, but a cut.
The ABC using its own airtime to cry poor makes for tedious viewing and ignores the concerns of ordinary Australians. …
COVID-19: How one eatery was done like a dinner by the bureaucrats
As more and more well-informed opinions appear, it is becoming clear that much of the coronavirus lockdown was unnecessary. We…
Wattle load of nonsense
The following is a summary, as best as I understand it, of the process of rebranding Australia. When reading it,…
Why Australia’s draconian vaping policies deserve condemnation
Over one year ago, I authored a column in these very pages for The Spectator Australia. In that column, I…
Forget the ronas, look at our latest on LGBTIQ family violence prevention
On July 1, the Andrews government announced a hefty funding boost for “LGBTIQ Family Violence Prevention”. It was a curious…
The cyberattacks must be our Sputnik moment
The recent cyberattacks by a “state-based cyber actor” on Australia underscores the necessary public policy shift the centre-right must make…
JobKeeper – or RecoveryPreventer?
Emergency income support has a time and place in buoying Australians through the pandemic. But the usefulness of the unprecedented…
School of crock
I have always loved looking after children. Helping them to learn and grow over this important part of their lives…
Parlez-vous Parler?
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The big three of the social media phenomena that has swept the world since the early naughties have finally met their match.…
Eden-Monaro: why so little focus on a seat so significant for both leaders?
For all its reputation as a “bellwether seat” usually going with the government of the day, Eden-Monaro has not been…
Time to end the unions’ super scam
Sir Robert Menzies said in 1949, “The best people in this community are … those who by thrift and self-sacrifice,…
Virgin’s Bain?
Last Friday, American private equity firm Bain Capital reached an agreement with Virgin Australia administrators Deloitte to purchase the dilapidated…
Power companies must decide: are they about virtue signalling or cheap, reliable energy?
Yesterday, The Australian reported dissent within the Australian Energy Council (AEC), the industry association that represents electricity generators. Of its 24…
So Albo’s safe from a Bill Shorten challenge – for now?
It’s fair to say that things are pretty awkward at the top of the ALP right now. Jim Chalmers is…
Memo AFL: do you play footy – or politics?
Australia is not a racist country and the Australian Football League should know better than to give its support to…
Only a market-based, real-world, cost-benefit approach can prevent a great global corona depression
The coronavirus, the political risk event of our generation, will change many things. Not least of these is the sufferance…
Queensland Labor: left and lefter
Queensland’s great political double act looks set to continue right up until the state election in October of this year.…
Confected outrage
Nestlé, why stop now? You are on a real roll trending and riding the tsunami wave of stupidity going on at the…
The truth about ethnic communities and coronavirus
Just as the epidemic shines a mirror on a host of issues, it has also raised questions about our multiculturalism.…
It’s 2020, so everything is racist. Especially at the ABC
It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian ABC journalist, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and…
Mounting anger around the Family Law inquiry
When Scott Morrison announced the Family Law Inquiry he described it on Channel 7 as an opportunity, “to hear directly…
Coming soon: the ALS Friedman Conference
It’s just a little over two weeks until Australia’s largest centre-right event, the ALS Friedman Conference, co-hosted by the Australian…
Cartoon lives matter
Hollywood animators were thrown into chaos last week when white actors said they would no longer voice coloured characters. Actors…
Is teeth whitening now racist too?
Remember when author J. K. Rowling got absolutely smashed on social media and cancelled for daring to say that only…
A glimmer of gender sanity in sport?
After initially publicly backing gender-fluid guidelines for women’s and girls’ sport, Sports Minister Richard Colbeck is now walking this back.…