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Conservatism after the Victorian election
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
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
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)
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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…?
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
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
Another disturbing judgment from a tribunal in Tasmania shows that our judicial system in Australia is corrupted with a virus…
Vale Niamh Finneran Loader
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
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
Recently-elected Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has repeatedly demonstrated a deep understanding of conservative values. By way of example, in…
Victoria’s eyes
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?
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
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
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
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!
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
It is always amusing to hear what wisdom a party in power offers its opponents because the ultimate goal of…