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Alan Jones: the sporting blazer brigade strikes again
If Paris still exists by 2024, after the disgraceful rioting and vandalism that have taken place in recent weeks –…
Does Tucker Carlson’s departure signal a leftward march?
Viewers have long complained that media outlets are drifting to the Left, chasing ‘Woke’ advertising dollars, political relationships, and lucrative…
Biden needs to reassure South Korea
This week, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is visiting Washington to mark the 70th anniversary of the US-South Korea…
Australian universities are failing: James Allan, in conversation with Will Kingston
Our universities must address academic bias, poor administration, and toxic campus culture.
Albanese’s infamous ANZAC speech
A first-time Prime Minister making a gaffe in his first ANZAC Day speech can be overlooked. A first-time Prime Minister…
A devastating truth
Every now and again you come across someone who has genuine authority, no self-interest at stake, nothing to gain, but…
Criticising CEO salaries is envy; what about raising workers’ salaries instead?
Inside many an individual runs a stream that ever so often rises to flood and bares the green-eyed monster. And…
Australia has an immigration problem, and it’s tearing the country apart
‘The rental market right now is currently utterly f**ked,’ reads a post currently trending on r/Sydney, a Reddit board devoted to…
The solution to the Liberals’ electoral malaise
Suppose you have saved your whole life. These savings have been invested in areas such as property or in the…
Albanese is making life harder for mainstream Australians
While Australians were ensconced in the Easter long weekend, the Albanese government announced that would not be extending the low-…
Help? What’s that?
I have found myself sitting in gutters a number of times in my counselling psychology career. There is some kind…
Spectator TV Australia: with Andrew Neil and Alan Jones
Spectator Australia TV is back! Based on the UK Spectator TV’s The Week in 60 Minutes, Spectator Australia TV brings all…
It’s ‘Groundhog Day’ for the Religious Discrimination Bill
On November 4, 2022, the Attorney-General, the Hon Mark Dreyfus MP, asked the ALRC to recommend reforms to the law…
Fox News is all Tuckered out
Perhaps it is surprising – perhaps not? – that one week after Fox News settled its alarming defamation lawsuit with Dominion, the…
Fear and loathing in post-Covid Australia
Three years ago, I was approached at a pub in Brisbane by a television station reporting on the mask mandates…
Australian productivity growth lowest in 60 years
Last month the Productivity Commission (PC) revealed that Australian productivity growth on the decade to 2020 was the lowest in…
Australia’s Korean War 70 years on
As we approach the 70th anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement (July 27, 1953), it is timely to reflect on…
Wartime history reduced to dust
Australians are about to celebrate Anzac Day and honour those who fought and died in all fields of conflict, including…
Only dead fish go with the flow
‘Australia is a great place to live!’ I would tell my audiences. ‘But it only has one major problem, it…
Everyone forgot about Earth Hour
Editor’s Note: Earth Hour is the creation of the World Wildlife Fund. It is an event during which companies and…
Does the Uluru Statement from the Heart violate the Constitution?
Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison was the first Australian leader to propose the addition of the ‘First Nations Voice’ to…
Tarantino’s ‘no’ on sex scenes is smart storytelling
US film director, Quentin Tarantino has told a Spanish newspaper, ‘Sex is not part of his vision of cinema.’ The Pulp…
Barry Humphries and ‘The Speccie’
‘But is it publishable, Rowan?’ That was the last exchange I had with Barry Humphries, on the phone earlier this…
The endless wind drought crippling renewables
The spectre of power failure is haunting Europe as Britain and Germany demonstrate that modern societies can’t run on wind…
Barry Humphries and his Dame
Several years ago, I found one of my parents doubled over in laughter – barely containing their brimming tears and…
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