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

Diary of an ‘Expert’ (She/Her) + boosters 100 per cent masked

28 August 2023 5:30 am

Dear Diary, Well, it’s happened. Deep down I knew it might, but I still can’t believe it. Today, Chris Hipkins…

Albanese’s fact-checkers and truth police

28 August 2023 5:00 am

The federal government’s proposed Misinformation and Disinformation Bill poses a serious threat to freedom of speech and expression in Australia. I’ve experienced…

Australia is ruled by ‘experts’

28 August 2023 4:00 am

Politicians can’t seem to live without experts. Faced with technical complexity all around them – whether in public health, climate…

Not in my backyard! No one wants to look at offshore wind turbines

28 August 2023 3:46 am

When wind farms were nothing more than an apocalypse-mongering salvation shouted from the lips of a distraught truanting European teenager,…

Listening is more than words

27 August 2023 5:00 am

Whether you are a university student, a parent, or working your way up the business ladder, it is essential that…

Voice ruptures the bond

26 August 2023 7:38 am

No, no, no! It’s not the lack of detail nor the promise of its permanence in the Constitution, nor that…

The Voice empowers bureaucracy over democracy

26 August 2023 5:00 am

The Australian people will soon be asked through a national referendum to alter the Constitution to establish an Aboriginal and…

Alex Greenwich’s bill set to erase sex-based rights in NSW

26 August 2023 4:00 am

On August 24, 2023 Alex Greenwich, independent gay MP for the inner-city electorate of Sydney, introduced his private member’s bill…

Defensive medicine and the pandemic of fear-stricken doctors

25 August 2023 5:00 am

Healthcare has transformed over the last four or five decades revealing a gradual shift in the practice of medicine from…

Trust the crazy

25 August 2023 4:45 am

I was certain I’d read the most ridiculous thing this week after grazing the ABC headline, Hikers urged to stop using…

The re-write of Australia: straight out of the Marxist-Leninist handbook

25 August 2023 4:30 am

Isn’t it about time we start demanding of our taxpayer media why they are subtly driving the Aboriginalisation of this…

Spinning the myth of Global Warming for corporate gain

25 August 2023 4:00 am

Although in 2011, the Commonwealth Budget papers compiled all the measures that were being implemented to foster renewable energy, that…

Socialists have made the left deaf to reason

24 August 2023 6:30 am

There may be a reason why Anthony Albanese and his ministers do not answer questions about their signature policies, even…

The Voice’s power play

24 August 2023 5:30 am

Later this year, Australians will be asked to vote in a referendum to add a new chapter to the Australian…

Douglas Murray bells the cat

24 August 2023 5:00 am

People are starting to wake up to not only The Voice, but the philosophical reasoning behind it, which is ironically,…

Date set for Falconer appeal on mandatory vaccination orders 

24 August 2023 4:00 am

Spectator Australia readers will recall Senior Constable Ben Falconer lost his challenge to the mandatory vaccination orders of the Chief Health…

The Woke can’t handle Queen: Fat Bottomed Girls axed from album

23 August 2023 12:20 pm

Only yesterday, I was reading about the website Worth it or Woke created by cinephile James Carrick, whose mission is to…

Exposing egos: unravelling ISP and GenCost

23 August 2023 6:00 am

Occasionally in our ordinary lives we come across a genuine David and Goliath narrative. Picture a staunch consumer successfully defending…

The woke desire to ‘get Trump at all costs’

23 August 2023 5:00 am

The fourth indictment against Donald Trump is what I like to call ‘Woke bigotry weaponising bankruptcy’. Of the people sucked into ‘get…

The spatiotemporal source of our culture war confusion

23 August 2023 4:30 am

There is a growing movement of intellectuals pushing the belief that consciousness is all around us. It’s not a new idea,…

Australia’s ideologically-driven energy crisis

23 August 2023 4:00 am

Labor’s energy policy won’t reduce our energy bills by $275 in 2025. When questioned about this promise in 2021, Prime…

LGBTQ+ activist tribe declares war on conservatives

22 August 2023 5:30 am

In May of this year, Binary advocate, Kirralie Smith, was served with two applications for APVOs (apprehension personal violence orders) and two…

Banking is a human right: can a people’s bank save us from ESG madness?

22 August 2023 5:00 am

Australia has a problem. The financial security of the nation’s citizens dangles on the threads of ‘social virtue’ spun out…

Albonocchio: Albanese struggles with truth-telling

22 August 2023 4:30 am

Anthony Albanese seems to be struggling with the concept of truth-telling, at least when it comes to the topic of…

Rowan Dean: Government doesn’t work and can’t close ‘the gap’

22 August 2023 4:00 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may not have had time to read the fine print of the Uluru Statement from the…