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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Erdogan’s battle for Turkey’s soul

6 March 2024 1:00 am

‘I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,’ Shakespeare’s Mark Antony declared, before gradually inviting the bloodthirsty crowd before…

Week in 60 Minutes S2E6: The dark side of Renewable energy! Cristina Talacko, Michael de Percy, and James Allan

6 March 2024 12:45 am

Cristina Talacko brings us the devastating story of one valley’s fight against a Renewable battery backup that is threatening the…

Trump could trump Putin on Ukraine

5 March 2024 4:00 am

Vladimir Putin is playing his cards in the Ukraine Invasion Stakes as if he held the trump card. A resolute…

Universality and the university

5 March 2024 2:30 am

Recently, the Australian University Accord met to discuss the manifest failings of our tertiary education system. The result has been…

Understanding national conservatism

5 March 2024 2:00 am

The Economist, the British magazine well-known for its particular metropolitan liberal worldview, had a pearl-clutching cover piece last week where…

Envy and the left

5 March 2024 1:00 am

We are all familiar with the concept of envy. As we know, this corrosive, malignant state of mind is one…

Pity those who get between Poilievre and the Prime Minister

4 March 2024 1:22 pm

There’s a new form of savagery in politics, the kind that belongs on the Discovery Channel’s after 10 pm slot where you…

The Tasmanian state election and the curious story of the ‘liberty tax’

4 March 2024 3:30 am

The early state election in Tasmania is scheduled for March 23, 2024. The election was triggered when two members of…

How low can Covid catastrophists go?

4 March 2024 3:00 am

Who’d have guessed that there would be two startling revelations about the great Covid over-reach in the space of about…

Not with a constitutional bang, but a legislated whimper: South Australia forces through Indigenous ‘Voice’

4 March 2024 2:00 am

Malinauskas ignores 61.4 per cent of South Australians who ‘No’ at the national referendum

Alexandra Marshall Live S2E5: Topher Field and life after the Covid Freedom Movement

4 March 2024 12:45 am

The Covid years are over, but the abuse of freedom has only just begun. Topher Field, a pivotal figure in…

AI has always been racist

3 March 2024 12:07 pm

Silicon Valley is having a meltdown over Google’s Gemini AI image generator after it flooded social media with a fake…

The scourge of problem gambling

3 March 2024 12:26 am

I know that Aussies love to have a punt on the ponies but it’s becoming a massive community problem. For…

Communist roots to anti-nuclear sentiment in Australia

2 March 2024 3:07 am

At the end of the second world war, the Chifley Labor government became involved in a joint project with Britain…

A way out of Net Zero

2 March 2024 2:43 am

Dear Peter Dutton, CC Ted O’Brien I’ve been badgering and ridiculing Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen in this…

Bad apples to rotten forests

1 March 2024 9:35 pm

Sifting through some British Medical Journal (BMJ) articles to further my knowledge of the methodology of scientific research, I found…

Should ANZ be allowed to buy Suncorp Bank?

1 March 2024 7:34 pm

As I’m writing this article, I have one eye on the ANZ share price. I’ve watched it drop more than…

WA Labor MP seeks to remove religious protections from Christian Schools

1 March 2024 5:11 pm

According to elements within the Australian Labor Party, Christian schools are rife with pro-life beliefs and homophobic teachings. This appears…

Government silencing Australians in the name of human rights

1 March 2024 2:34 pm

The Australian Human Rights Commission wants to hear your views on dangerous male sex offenders being allowed to identify as…

Double Shot S2E5: Help! It’s an apocalypse! (Just kidding.) Professor Ian Plimer, Terry Barnes, and Bettina Arndt

1 March 2024 12:15 am

Professor Ian Plimer joins Speccie TV having read two new climate reports that contradict some of the most radical climate…

The moral hazard of Managerialism

29 February 2024 11:44 pm

If you’re a political enthusiast who hasn’t been living under a rock over the past decade, there’s a strong likelihood…

2024 or 1984?

29 February 2024 9:55 pm

The Misinformation and Disinformation Bill, introduced this year, paves the way towards a 1984 totalitarian reality where foreign organisations find themselves…

Crisis of faith?

29 February 2024 9:23 pm

Never afraid to talk about his personal Christian faith, Scott Morrison used his valedictory address to Parliament this week to…

Inside the Christian Right conspiracy to ‘take over government’

29 February 2024 8:13 pm

[Tongue in cheek … obviously.] Since 2018, a small annual conference has been held in Brisbane which claims to be…

The new space race: putting Woke into orbit

29 February 2024 2:00 am

If we want to reach for the stars, then it will be our best and brightest – not virtue signalling…