In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Let teachers teach
As recent footage of a teacher losing control of a New South Wales classroom received widespread coverage in the media,…
The Xi-Putin Moscow Summit: did we learn anything?
Xi’s recent three-day visit with Putin in Moscow brought with it several takeaways. China and Russia are deepening their relationship…
Alan Jones: the Liberal legacy is catastrophic defeat
One thing is for certain coming out of the New South Wales election last Saturday. Just as the mainstream media,…
Submarines for landlubbers
Submarines, despite recent ill-informed comments from ex-Prime Minister Paul Keating, are currently a very expensive, ‘must have’, item in the…
The ugly side of activism
J. Mitchell Sances’ recent article about ‘gay erasure’ on the political left says much about what advocacy organisations tend to become…
Mandatory testing for $15 smoke alarms, but not cyber security plans?
In the wake of Australia’s latest customer data exfiltration attack affecting possibly 14 million Latitude stakeholders, we read that the rate…
Hypocrisy on steroids
Former UK Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption argued from near the start of the Covid pandemic that what democratic governments…
The eunuch premier
The Eunuch Premier is no more. On Saturday last, the Liberals’ fourth NSW Premier in twelve years was dispatched from…
15 minute cities: burning to the ground
Are this century’s ideological peasants finally revolting? It certainly seems that way after residents set fire to road block ‘planters’ which…
Aukus is out of the bag
Aukus is out of the bag. The Albanese government has committed Australia to spend nearly $370 billion over the next…
Blame politicians, not teachers
Our political elite are to blame for our educational malaise, not our educators… At the start of another academic year,…
Free power for the … rich?
Last year Mitcham Council, in the leafy south-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, declared a climate emergency. They proudly announced that they were…
Cultural domination: why the left is obsessed with shouting ‘Nazi’!
Some of you may know 16th century poet, John Donne, whose famous body of work, The Holy Sonnets, explored a crippling…
A backdoor revolution?
‘Albanese is convinced the Voice will pass,’ writes Dennis Shanahan in The Australian. If so, the consequential conclusion of the…
The unsafe Safeguard Mechanism
And so, the Greens have joined the ALP in imposing additional carbon taxes on the top 215 greenhouse gas emitting…
The Liberal Party and its lost cause for liberalism
Another nail in the coffin for the Liberal Party. What a travesty that we have lost New South Wales, too,…
False flags: Deeming, Pesutto, and the absurdity of Woketoria
A trans flag flies out the front of the Victorian Parliament, proudly announcing that we have no meaningful political opposition in…
A diet of political insects
Speccie Editor Rowan Dean has already described the New South Wales election perfectly in this morning’s leading article. His remarks must…
The psychology of moral evasion
I heard the term ‘severe climate anxiety’ again today. It was reportedly used as a defence to help someone achieve…
Annihilated
Since about 2016, the Liberal Party has decided to abandon its statement of principles, ‘We Believe’, which espouses ideals such…
Victoria needs Voltaire
So modern and fabulous we think we are… But it was the French philosopher of the Enlightenment period, Voltaire, who…
New Zealand shows us how the Voice will work
There were two important announcements on Thursday March 16, concerning the question that will be asked at the Voice to…
Conservative Australians should be very angry
John Howard was a conservative. He won, again and again and again. Tony Abbott was a conservative. He won a…
Let the new feminism speak
Let Women Speak is just what it sounds like, an event aimed at giving women a platform. Anyone who shows…
Theologian Thunberg and the pseudo-religion
Imagine that: it seems that Greta Thunberg is now a top theologian…? Yes, I realise that honorary degrees are usually…
