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It’s amazing how tolerant home borrowers have become
It seems like the Aston by-election was not just a disaster for the Liberal Party, losing a once-safe seat from…
Silvio Berlusconi: the man who wanted to make Italy great again
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has died, aged 86, from complications arising from leukaemia. With him passes also a…
Playing politics with the Governor
This piece is authored by a guest writer. The beauty of Australia’s Constitutional Monarchy is the absence of politics from…
God did not give us the Church to push political opinion
I wish I didn’t have to write articles about the Catholic Church. Genuinely, I wish the Catholic Church would act…
Taming the inflation monster
The Reserve Bank of Australia (‘RBA’) has raised the cash rate – the rate that banks pay to borrow funds…
The West’s trauma over radical gender theory
‘Anorexic’ is trending on social media after a bizarre TikTok from Dylan Mulvaney went viral showing the trans influencer looking…
Spectator TV Australia: Aseem Malhotra on the future of medical integrity in the age of fear
Aseem Malhotra joins Speccie TV while on tour across Australia speaking about the importance of medical freedom and correcting the…
Double Shot Ep6: Ralph Schoellhammer on Germany’s green collapse
The largest economy in the European Union bloc has entered a recession driven by rising energy costs. Ralph Schoellhammer speaks…
Putting the ‘artificial’ in intelligence: the morality of the digital mind
Artificial intelligence is, well, artificial. And the use of ‘intelligence’ in this label is a misnomer. AI machines cannot think.…
From comrade to Dame in a New York minute
They say that a week is a long time in politics and indeed that seems to be truer now than…
Give us a fair go! Work, mass migration, housing, and the red tape disaster
The recently announced plan of the federal government to preference a new round of mass migration over those Australian pensioners,…
Viceregal foot-in-mouth disorder
There’s a desperate need, it seems, for an official Vice Regal Etiquette Manual. But not one about how we should…
Glory to Hong Kong
Recently someone – no name, no return address – sent me a white cotton T-shirt. On the front it said…
Does the work from home model have a future?
It is 8 am on a Monday morning in Sydney’s CBD. While in the grasp of winter, the cool air…
Trudeau’s nasty plan to fight fire with carbon taxes
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not be a particularly moral creature, but he is smart. Having watched part of…
Woke-ers of the world unite!
My copy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago is falling apart. I bought it many years ago at a second-hand book store…
The groundhog day witch hunt of Trump
Trump has been indicted again, making this the second attempt in two months to politically damage the former President. Trump’s…
Vote Liberal? Vote ‘no’ for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Earlier this week, the Guardian published an article by former Liberal ACT Chief Minister Kate Carnell: Vote Liberal? You should vote ‘yes’…
Slowing down environmental craziness
Pressure to replace controllable and low-cost coal and gas with an intermittent and high-cost wind and solar alternative continues, but…
Germany’s economy is the virgin tossed into the volcano
In 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel spread out her arms and welcomed the third-world to come and share in the riches…
Parents left in the dark by new-age learning
In the jargon and edubabble much loved by new-age, Woke educrats teachers no longer teach, instead they are described as…
The Bowen Basin pioneers: prospectors, squatters, drovers, and miners
Viv Forbes was part of a small team of geologists given the task of mapping the Bowen Basin over the…
We have done it before, let’s do it again
I have previously argued that the Australian economy is headed down a ‘steep hill to the creek of insolvency’. Something…
It’s the economy stupid! Albo is heading the way of Gough and Rudd
The Albanese government came to power promising lower electricity prices, lower inflation, and higher wages. One year on, we have…
‘Unity in diversity’ – why not here?
During his most recent sojourn in Indonesia, Prime Minister Albanese may have found time to notice that nation’s national slogan…
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