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The good and faithful servant Queen
‘Her Majesty The Queen’. With two male monarchs lined up to follow King Charles III, these four words are unlikely…
Christmas without the Queen will never be the same
For most of my life, I’ve tuned in to the Queen’s Christmas message. Her observations on the year gone would…
16 reasons why you need to buy an electric car
You have a penchant for Tolstoy, but never got around to reading War and Peace. Now you can devour this…
Duty, service, and change: vale Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip, it was said, had one duty above all others – to never let the Queen down. Her Majesty,…
Vale Her Majesty The Queen
The Spectator Australia is deeply saddened and shaken by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at 96 after…
Show us the evidence, Minister
The climate alarmism of Parliament is starting to melt
I feel, therefore I am
The trans debate is not about rights, it is about truth
Catholic schools defy gender ‘affirmation’ laws
The Catholic church showed real courage this week issuing advice to its schools to avoid sending kids for irreversible ‘gender…
Pakistan’s flood marks the return of ‘Climate Change’
As the media become increasingly bored by Covid, it is time to return to an old favourite… The temperature is…
My government turned me into an ‘anti-vaxxer’
A government power grab created the anti-vax movement
Can you hear me yet?
From Prime Minister Albanese – and so many of his cohorts – to media muppets loitering at every point of…
Dear Prime Minister, I am confused
It might just be me, but I am confused about the first 100 days of our new Australian Prime Minister.…
The Territory Gap leaves Indigenous communities at a loss
The Northern Territory has the worst economic outcomes for Indigenous people in remote or very remote locations of any state…
Biden unwisely wages war on MAGA
It is popular on the left side of politics to charge people with the terrible crime of destroying democracy. Yet…
Theatre of the absurd
While Putin’s Russian Federation is one of the world’s most corrupt and cruel regimes, it quizzically continues to be obsessed…
Morrison: the spinner that lost
It is a shame Scott Morrison picked politics over cricket as a profession, as there are only so many ways…
Too many climate change think tanks
In public discourse, there are those promoting the truth, and those looking to further their agenda. This is most obvious…
Anonymity for men falsely accused of rape
‘No man should have to go what I went through,’ said the teary John Jarratt, after a jury took 15…
Cash is King (for now)
Nicola Salvi’s Baroque Trevi Fountain sits in the centre of Rome. It is a relatively modern addition, built on the…
The perversion of the English language
Language is a powerful vessel. It defines how we think, speak, write, and communicate. If you control language, you control…
Australia died when Zoe Buhler was handcuffed
On September 2, 2020, a young pregnant woman in Ballarat, Zoe Buhler, had several police officers turn up at her…
Power crisis in Europe
As summer mellows into autumn, Europeans are beginning to prepare for winter. This is bad news, as the winter of…
Apologies are not enough
Last week in the Parliament of Victoria, I called for Premier Daniel Andrews to apologise to a Ballarat mum who…
Cancelling the Cashless Debit Card: ideology trumps reality
The Albanese/Labor government was elected with a manifesto that included discontinuation of the compulsory cashless debit card (CDC); the bill…
Higher taxes: that old chestnut?
Why was I not surprised when Ross Garnaut started touting higher taxes for the mining industry to solve our current cost…
