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Tim Fischer: a statesman of courage and character
Last week Australia lost one of its great characters in public life with the death of our tenth deputy prime…
Why won’t the left admit: their war on Alan Jones is a war on dissenting opinion
The woke lynch mob has been busy recently, ramping up their perennial crusade to blackball centre-right voices in the media.…
Our universities Chinese cash cows crisis
Australia’s universities are taking a multi-billion-dollar gamble with taxpayer money to pursue a high-risk, high-reward international growth strategy that may…
Dear ABC, what about diversity of thought?
The(ir) ABC is pushing for 50-50 on-air gender quotas. As part of a “major diversity” push, the taxpayer-funded channel is…
Subsidies, bureaucrats, blackouts and bills: inside our electricity disaster
The Australian Energy Market Operator is one of the half dozen different government institutions responsible for planning and managing the…
Are abortion activists overstating the demand for terminations?
I recently went to see my local member — who also happens to be the NSW Opposition Leader, Jodi McKay…
Nick Kyrgios is a dick (and other startling revelations)
Nick Kyrgios is a dick. True, I don’t know Nick, so I apologise to him if I’m wronging him, but…
Kashmir in happier times
In the nineteen-thirties, my parents, middle class, mixed-race Burghers from then-Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, honeymooned in Kashmir. It was a…
Gladys and Alex: eugenics hip new friends
Many people are rightly outraged at just how extreme Alex Greenwich’s “Reproductive Rights Bill” is, which will soon be before…
What’s woke this week
When I first began writing this column I used to worry that there might be some weeks that wouldn’t provide…
How to reindustrialise Australia
This week we heard that that Australian steel producer BlueScope will invest $1 billion in an Ohio-based American steel plant, citing…
Why the Ramsay Centre is a good bet for UQ — and Australia
After a controversial multi-month negotiation, Ramsay Centre CEO Simon Haines and University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Peter Høj have signed off…
School choice should mean more than a public-private pick
The Australian Scholarships Group (ASG)’s flagship annual publication — the Parents Report Card — dishes up some choice findings about…
Tim Fischer: farewell to a gentle warrior
In its campaign advertising in 1996 the Keating government portrayed Nationals leader Tim Fischer as a half-deranged yokel; a national…
Here come the new eco-fascists
“The Washington Post” beat me taking a closer look at the Christchurch, NZ, and El Paso, Texas, terrorist attacks carried…
Let’s fight poverty. Let’s abolish the minimum wage
In the months since the election, not only have we seen a new appetite for industrial relations reform but things…
The Pell appeal: why good process makes us a better society
In the interests of disclosure, I am Catholic. That said, you only need a two-minute conversation with my mum to…
Clementine Ford the arbiter of language? F**k off!
If hateful hard left exhibitionist extremist Clementine Ford is now the gatekeeper of language, we are all fucked. I would…
China’s young nationalists – no holds barred and on our streets
Last Friday I turned up to the “Stand with Hong Kong — Power to the People” Rally at the State Library of…
Free speech first, then the right to know
As most Speccie readers would know, I stand unashamedly for free speech; even speech that might offend or insult. Speech…
New South Wales’ looming Liberal leadership crisis
Just weeks away from what’s sure to be a roiling Liberal state council meeting, the realisation is dawning that Gladys…
Sex and the Sydney stabbing: preach PC, print prurience
The good-girl-gone-bad narrative peddled by the Australian media following the stabbing murder of Sydney sex-worker Michaela Dunn last week —…
As China is shows its true colours, how should we respond?
Given the recent news regarding the arrests of Canadian, Australian, UK and US citizens in China — as retaliation toward…
Will the Morrison government axe compulsory student fees?
For far too long, left-wing student unions have shown a cavalier disregard for the interests of mainstream students on campus.…
Want to give her a better chance at life? Support free market solutions
In 1981 42 per cent of the world lived in extreme poverty earning less than $700 USD per year. Today…
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