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Conservatism after the Victorian election

8 December 2022 8:00 am

Here is a simple truth: the Liberal Party in Victoria could not defeat the most corrupt, incompetent, and debt-ridden Labor…

170 patients that changed everything

8 December 2022 7:00 am

Few people realise that the Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA)of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine/BNT 162b2 was granted on the efficacy data…

The Left’s racism against Senator Price: a voice that refuses to obey

8 December 2022 4:00 am

In the name of equity and inclusion, Australia’s marquee satire publication, The Betoota Advocate, has written an astonishing (and some may say racist) article…

Ouch! The Libs shoot themselves in the foot (again)

7 December 2022 11:00 am

Is the Liberal Party a lost cause? It certainly seems that way. Every time the party has a chance to…

The Left’s selective catastrophising

7 December 2022 8:00 am

Catastrophising comes easily to climate change activists. Our new monarch, King Charles III, declared in 2009 we had only ‘100…

ESG: climate virtue bleeding super dry

7 December 2022 7:00 am

Business, where the profit motive is explicitly dominant and where the hundreds of millions of direct and indirect owners want…

New Zealand’s Covid inquiry: reckoning or rubber-stamp?

7 December 2022 4:00 am

New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, this week announced a Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s Covid response. ‘A…

Courage is the cure

6 December 2022 1:24 pm

The Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS) is on a mission to restore medical free speech in this country and ensure…

The carbon crusades of Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese

6 December 2022 10:00 am

New Zealand plans to introduce a fart tax in 2025. The problem is, the Ardern government hasn’t discussed the detail…

Covid confusion: reckless and illogical governments

6 December 2022 9:00 am

Coming from a background in Big Pharma and having been a senior pharmaceutical consultant in clinical trials and drug regulatory…

Death: a dystopian love affair

6 December 2022 7:00 am

Canada’s dystopian love affair with State-assisted dying grows more chilling by the day. Fashion house La Maison Simons has produced…

The ‘green leap’ forward

6 December 2022 4:00 am

The Dutch Minister for Nitrogen, Christianne van der Wal, announced that 3,000 farms will be forced to sell their properties…

No beer, hugs, kisses, or gays: international crims welcome…?

5 December 2022 11:33 am

The World Cup in Qatar has been wallowing in controversy since it was first awarded twelve years ago. And the…

Labor’s absurd censure of ScoMo

5 December 2022 9:00 am

Following the inquiry by Judge Virginia Bell, Anthony Albanese has done the obvious political thing and moved to censure the…

Tasmania: where women’s rights never arrived

5 December 2022 7:30 am

Another disturbing judgment from a tribunal in Tasmania shows that our judicial system in Australia is corrupted with a virus…

Vale Niamh Finneran Loader

5 December 2022 7:10 am

It is with a heavy heart that I deliver the news that a fellow contributor to The Spectator Australia, Niamh Finneran…

Carbon emissions are driving children online

5 December 2022 7:00 am

Editor’s note: this is Niamh Finneran Loader’s final piece, published after her tragic death over the weekend. A tribute from…

Liberty is a conservative value

5 December 2022 4:00 am

Recently-elected Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has repeatedly demonstrated a deep understanding of conservative values. By way of example, in…

Victoria’s eyes

4 December 2022 10:00 am

I recently had the experience of engaging with two Victorias. It was not planned – indeed, both ‘acquaintances’ were well…

Could we benefit from a new National Anthem?

4 December 2022 8:00 am

Following a nationwide competition run by the Australian Council of the Arts to find a National Anthem to replace God Save…

The media has a God complex

4 December 2022 6:00 am

The headline read: Scott Morrison ‘has a God complex’ and recited the Bible in meetings, new book claims. Whoa. This’ll…

Brittany Higgins case finally over

3 December 2022 5:46 pm

Great news. The Brittany Higgins case is over. The ACT Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold announced yesterday that the…

Voluntary Assisted Dying is back on the agenda

3 December 2022 11:08 am

The Covid pandemic brought into focus management of the elderly in nursing homes; those with dementia or with chronic morbidity…

Change the government, or the reef gets it!

3 December 2022 4:00 am

As far as Australian left-wing politicians were concerned, the threatened endangerment finding on the Great Barrier Reef was just blackmail.…

Beware of Labor bearing advice

2 December 2022 2:16 pm

It is always amusing to hear what wisdom a party in power offers its opponents because the ultimate goal of…