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So we’ll hit our renewable energy target by 2020 – but at what cost?
Their ABC is rejoicing. We’ll hit our renewable energy target by 2020. But at what cost? The Australian government only…
Why everything you’ve been told about the Amazon wildfires is untrue
You have been told lies by the French President about the Amazon rainforest burning on an unprecedented scale. Everything –…
Just who is protesting in Hong Kong?
Just who’s protesting in Hong Kong? It’s only radicals, apparently. That’s what the Nine Network’s left-wing tabloids, claim, anyway: So…
The great ‘what ifs’ of September 3, 1939
Eighty years ago today, World War II began. On September 1, Germany invaded Poland from the west, the north and…
National Flag Day: a time to celebrate continuity, tradition and unity
Each year, Australia’s National Flag Day is celebrated on September 3. The date commemorates when the flag was first flown…
The political trap behind the Indigenous Voice to Parliament
The biggest obstacle facing the campaign for Indigenous constitutional recognition remains the lack of detail concerning the role and operation…
EXCLUSIVE: From the ground in Hong Kong – the key element missing in reporting
The protests in Hong Kong have rightly attracted international media attention. Escalating tensions frequently boil over into violence coming from…
What’s woke this week
Wokedom has a love affair with self-indulgent gobbledygook dressed up as meaning too deep for the ignorant masses to understand…
What don’t ‘refugee advocates’ get about democratic process?
Do we want to be governed by democratic process or activists on Twitter? That’s the choice staring us in the…
Fathers Day reminds us how we all need a second chance
Happy Father’s Day. Hope and pray you have a good one. Recently I received a call at the Dads4Kids office.…
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Fischer – how to fix question time
Tim Fischer, a Spectator Australia columnist and contributor, submitted this piece shortly before his death. It was the best parting…
To say that the left are bad losers is a major understatement
Contrary to the impression you might get from reading my blog or following me on social media, I’m not actually…
Abortion euphemisms
National Public Radio is the United States equivalent of the ABC, broadcast by the ABC every day of the week.…
Press freedom – is the ABC self-censoring to advance its own agendas?
Much has been said about the freedom of the press in recent weeks. There have been several important confabs about…
Why you’ll pay for a tax on digital services, not the multinationals
The proposed ‘digital services tax’) floated by Communications Minister Paul Fletcher will harm Australian social media and search engine users…
Wally World logic, deciphered
The latest on Brexit from Dr Waleed Aly, the noted Monash University political scientist and public intellectual: British Prime Minister…
Free thought is bad for you, philosophers decree
Last year, Bryan W. Van Norden, professor of philosophy at Wuhan University, Yale-NUS College and Vassar College (and the author…
It’s now law: Danandrewstan has more (gender) varieties than Heinz
Remember when you were young and driving around the country on lengthy trips? Often you would alleviate the boredom by…
How Aboriginals are abused by the new PC paternalism
But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the…
When regulators roam out of control
Ask Australian business people and industry representatives in formal meetings about our nation’s regulatory burden, and you will be told…
Why vegetarianism leaves you limp
With the recent news of the vegan ‘food fad’ abuse of a little girl who, at 20 months can’t walk,…
George Pell shows: hard cases make bad law
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there… Bob Dylan The decision last week of the Victorian Court to reject…
The Amazon is burning – but the Chicken Littles pants are also on fire
Amazon rain forest is burning in Brazil and people are angry: When a fire tore through Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris earlier…
The rise of left-wing anti-Semitism
Evidence is mounting that anti-Semitism is on the rise. For a recent example, a CNN poll found that “more than…
Gillette now knows: razor pain is really irritating
At some point in a brainstorm when everyone was fuelled with too much caffeine, it probably seemed like a good…
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