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Why not declare Andrew Barr Chief Minister for life?
The ACT election has come and gone, and surprise, surprise – Andrew Barr and Labor have won yet again. After…
Tribal delusions in academia: the treason of the intellectuals?
Throughout human history, intelligent people have believed many weird ideas. Their false and even delusional beliefs often served as the…
The value of human life through the eyes of the left
The modern left-wing governments and people who regard themselves as the modern left are developing a strange attitude towards human…
It will take more than hot air to fix Labor’s renewables woes
The wheels are falling off Mr Bowen’s energy policy as the Albanese government heads downhill like an out-of-control billy cart.…
The King’s success will sink republicans
King Charles III and Queen Camilla landed safely in Sydney last night, despite a momentary spot of bad weather typical…
Jordan Peterson v Justin Trudeau?
‘I don’t think it’s reasonable for the Prime Minister of the country to basically label me a traitor.’
What green energy transition?
Last week the Net Zero universe was alive with the sounds of jubilation as the penetration of unreliable energy into…
Lessons from the new American right
Australian centre-right politicians are very fond of quoting Winston Churchill. One of the last pieces of advice that great wartime…
The US election, attempts to assassinate Trump, cancel culture, and the prisoner’s dilemma
A dilemma that has dogged conservatives since the emergence of so-called ‘woke’ progressive politics is how best to respond to…
AEU serving themselves, not teachers or students
The Australian Education Union’s (AEU) reckless decision to slap work bans on crucial teaching reforms designed to improve learning for…
Krakow is always a good idea
Some time ago I read an article in the The Spectator Australia about Paris. The author was an Englishman, but…
More than poor taste: Albo is living on the cliffs
‘Read the room…’ is what an exhausted Labor supporter wrote on X, having cringed at the Prime Minister’s defence of…
Trump stumbles over transgender comment
‘Cat amongst the pigeons’ is the idiom that comes to mind this afternoon following Donald Trump’s comments regarding transgender surgery…
The deconstruction of Australia’s society
In the late 1980s, the communist world collapsed, and the Cold War international system became history. It is in this…
The Babylon Bee sues California for silencing satire
California’s Democrats are being sued for shutting down satire. At the centre of the 72-page lawsuit is the right to…
Green Hydrogen limps toward inevitable demise
Fortescue Metals Group, a leading Australian iron ore miner, has been actively pursuing green hydrogen as a key component of…
Australia and its King
If we believe the mass media, the monarchy is no longer a divinely ordained institution, but only another part of…
Antisemitism is an ongoing plague at the UN
The rise of anti-Semitism in Australia has continued in recent months, aided and abetted by the Greens. The Labor government,…
SpaceX launch blocked by Californian bureaucrats
The Californian Coastal Commission have voted down a request from SpaceX to increase space flights. Launch limits per year were…
Golf – the final patriarchal frontier
Anika Wells, Australia’s Sports Minister, has come out swinging her heaviest club, opening a new front on the war against…
Are Australia’s childish premiers jealous of the King’s popularity?
Support for a republic is at an all-time low. So low, indeed, that Anthony Albanese has quietly abolished the Assistant…
Conservatives are fighting back in the ACT
Following the ‘unjust excommunication’ of Elizabeth Kikkert from the Liberal Party of Australia, Family First has gained a new face…
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