In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Pope Francis should stop cosying up to authoritarian regimes
Pope Francis is on his way back from Mongolia this week. On a visit to that country, which has scarcely…
Victoria’s duck hunting ban is a sign of things to come with the Voice
The recent state parliamentary report into recreational native bird hunting gives Victorians a taste of the kind of division the…
Australia’s biggest solar farm: ‘We are collateral damage in the race to Net Zero’
There’s nothing but heartbreak and dismay as another renewable energy project looms over regional Australia. Danish company European Energy has…
Concussions are killing players and the game
The rulers of footy codes have, for years, adopted a head-in-the-sand approach to the management of concussions, but the tsunami…
WorkSafe: socialism by stealth
The Victorian State government is forcing employers to pay for their mental health initiatives, and it is crippling businesses. Pending…
Tony Abbott’s record of achievement
Ten years since we elected the Anglosphere’s best recent Tory PM
Are pro-Voice advocates preying on children’s emotions?
The Hon Sarah Game, One Nation MLC in South Australia, published a letter addressed to the Labor Minister for Education,…
End the Net Zero nightmare
Matthew Warren knows as much about the energy industry as anyone and his book Blackout (2019) is a very good overview of…
Jolly (expensive) junketeers!
When you wake to the news that federal parliamentarians will be travelling to Washington DC to plead for the release…
Are we all pretending everything is ‘fine’?
You know that old trope about how the husband finally retires and then the wife finds him under her feet…
The road to Calvary
A presentation by the estimable Fr Tony Percy, until recently Vicar-General of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn, on the Australian…
What is mis-dis in climate change debate?
Speaking in Suva in July 2022, Anthony Albanese declared a climate emergency in the Pacific. This came after joining regional…
Qantas’ woke capitalism is failing
Qantas has been in the news – generally for bad reasons… Although the airline recently announced a massive fleet renewal…
Liberal values? The party of Menzies should try practising what it preaches
What are Liberal values? The party has a short statement on its website that sets out its ‘beliefs’. There are…
Why are we ignoring nuclear? The answer is Bowen in the wind
Right before my very eyes, was a most wonderful sight that stopped me in my tracks. Towering above the rabble…
‘Repowered’ wind turbines to ‘suck carbon dioxide’ from the atmosphere
According to the Discovery Channel, there are around 400,000 individual wind turbines in operation. Every single one of these will…
Knock-knock… We are from the ‘Yes’ campaign
Prime Minister Albanese has formally announced the date for the Voice referendum to be October 14, 2023 to unctuous applause…
Maui fires v Ukraine invasion?
They’ve got the wrong comparison when they (voters, politicians, and commentators) complain that while the Biden administration is handing Ukraine…
The case for a September interest rate rise pause
With another RBA meeting due to occur shortly, the speculation around interest rate rises is certainly not unexpected. The CPI…
Free speech on campus, actions are louder than words
Last week the University of Sydney announced that it would avoid taking an official position on the Voice to Parliament.…
Paul Fletcher, the father of Australian censorship?
A lot of perfectly warranted criticism has been aimed at Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party over their proposed Misinformation…
Albo’s first 44 words committed Australia to the Uluru Statement
Within the first 44 words uttered by the new Prime Minister of Australia on May 21 last year, Anthony Albanese…
A Victorian odyssey with a long way to go
It is becoming clearer every day that the Andrews government in Victoria has a propensity to bite off a bit…
Have universities hushed-up academics over the Voice?
Academic freedom is supposed to be sacrosanct at universities. However, the Voice referendum has exposed it as a sham. Universities…
‘No’ artwork free to use
Now that the Voice To Parliament referendum has been called, please feel free to use, with our permission, the Spectator…
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