In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Superiority complex at the heart of elite activism
The defeat of the Voice Referendum is no reason to rejoice, but rather a time for reflection. Indigenous communities need…
Spectacularly wrong on foreign policy
It isn’t uncommon for foreign policy prognosticators to get things spectacularly wrong. What sets Jake Sullivan apart, in my opinion,…
Konstantin Kisin, ‘We are in the fight of our lives’
Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this speech by Konstantin Kisin at the inaugural ARC (The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship)…
Wikipedia at war
Twenty years ago when I attended university, I was told by lecturers in no uncertain terms that Wikipedia should not…
The problem with green energy is … basic physics
All green energy generation schemes are dishonest schemes, for various reasons. They all need enormous tax-payer funding to make them…
Centralisation, the Voice, and why the National Curriculum should be abandoned
Centralised control results in a hierarchy of out-of-touch elites, neglects local agency, and creates unnecessary layers of red tape and…
Green, powerless, and defenceless
As Net Zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless, and defenceless. History holds lessons that we ignore at…
Sick of Marvel? Watch these instead
I think it’s safe to say that I’m getting sick of the same old superhero movies. The chances of me…
Toward a new totalitarianism
There’s no doubt cultural-Marxist-inspired Woke ideology is destroying the best parts of Western Civilisation. Rationality, truth, and a spiritual or…
Airbus Albo has forgotten Alice Springs
It is unlikely Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will return to Alice Springs now the referendum is finished and there is…
Raining missiles, reigning lies: flags, ceasefires, and ‘proportionality’
The gentle, lispy tones of Tony Burke, Minister for the Arts and Workplace relations in the Albanese government, belie the…
What are the WHO up to this time?
For most Australians, any distant international bureaucracy seems a world away from their everyday lives. When discussing the WHO (World…
De-banking Nigel Farage: a tale of politics, not commerce
Documents that further vindicate Nigel Farage’s claim that he was de-banked by Coutts for political, not financial reasons, emerged last…
It’s the mens rea, stupid!
The young female journalist-cum-activist from the ABC (suffering early onset bias) was asking Amir Maimon, the Israeli Ambassador to Australia,…
Statement from our former Prime Ministers
Six former Australian Prime Ministers, notably excluding Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating, have written and signed a two-page letter condemning…
Tearing up over ‘Friends’ lost
Over the weekend I found myself ‘tearing up’ over the news that Matthew Perry had died, aged not much older…
Fixing potholes is a policy we can all agree on
On my way to the local tip, my car lurched as I backed out over the naturally occurring drain that…
Do Covid vaccines meet the definition of gene therapy?
Serious questions are being asked of Australia’s Office of the Gene Technology Regulator
The Bowen delusion
Both the ALP and the Coalition, ostensibly as a means to reduce national emissions of CO2, espouse wind and solar…
Victoria’s culture police
Imagine there is a Colonial Heritage Council funded by the Victorian state government which has been awarded powers to enter…
I’m not going anywhere
The other day I found myself in a defiant mood. It’s not my default position, these days. Most often, I…
SARS: a warning about tyrannical health bureaucracies
I was reading through Jeremy Clarkson’s The World According to Clarkson – a collection of his Sunday Times columns from way back…
Coastal wind farms: this Sunday, the people say ‘no’ again
When the first coastal wind farms were announced by Energy Minister Chris Bowen, I thought I was dreaming. Australia has…
The Loophole Bill: 1.2 million self-employed Australians at risk
My recent Spectator Australia article, Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia, gave an overview of the Albanese government’s Industrial Relations Bill, also…
Australian Catholic Bishops and the referendum
In the last few days of the referendum campaign, I was struck by something Warren Mundine said. It went along…