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Fifty shades of Covid
[Calm down, it’s satire.] She slowly slipped her mask down and removed her gloves. Then lowered her second mask. That…
To ‘crush and colonise’
The Russians may well love their children too, but many of their views about their war on Ukraine span a…
Will the ripples from Roe v. Wade reach Australia?
An American journalist, Caroline Reilly, re-tweeted a New York Times report of the firebombing of a Wisconsin anti-abortion headquarters, together with…
Courage, fantasy, and the arc of autocracy
Andriy Melnyk is the Ukrainian ambassador to Berlin. In early May he demanded the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, respond to…
Leadership delegated is leadership lost
Is anyone else old enough to remember when any corporate, political, or education leader, said something memorable? Something that left…
Vaccine coercion turns voters off the majors
Australians who have felt coerced into vaccination will spurn the major parties on election day, data suggests. Instead, their vote…
The pregnant man emoji and other absurdities
The world was recently stunned to hear a US Supreme Court nominee tell the Senate what ‘progress’ it was to…
Rich Uncle Albo’s shared equity nightmare
For the worst-crafted, most ineffectual policy of this election campaign it would be hard to go past Rich Uncle Albo’s…
Inflation for dummies
My party, the Liberal Democrats, has far more nerdy economists among its members than any other party. It seems low…
Fiscal vandalism alive and well in ‘Danistan’
Dodgy Labor Party politicking and fiscal vandalism are the enduring hallmarks of Daniel Andrews’ leftist government which, in just six…
The fallacious Fauci flips
Why haven’t they fired Dr Anthony Fauci? Although Fauci had been given the task of leading America – and by…
Waiter, can I get some more ‘Anglican’ in this activism?
In what sense is an Anglican school that rejects Anglican teaching in order to keep non-Anglican families happy still an…
Morrison’s ‘pitch and miss’ to small business
Last week Morrison made his pitch for the small business vote. It fell dead flat. That’s strange really. If you…
We get the politicians we deserve
Can our leaders really reduce the price of lettuce? That and other pie in the sky expectations were canvassed in…
Men need our support
Over twenty years ago, Federal Member of Parliament Greg Wilton took his own life. The tragedy was the culmination of a…
The politics of an energy dystopia
We are seeing unprecedented prices in the Australian gas and electricity wholesale markets. The first five days of May saw…
Depp v. Heard: trials and tribulations
If you are interested in litigation and court cases, your latest obsession is the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial……
Get wet, end up drowned
Soggy Liberals under attack from the Climate 200 mob have no one to blame except themselves. They walked out into…
Crucial legal front opens in WA vaccine mandate challenge
Spectator Australia readers will recall that, in a recent piece, I reported on an urgent hearing on the evening of Monday, March…
Will Albo bring the Keating interest rates back?
In 1975, when Gough Whitlam came to power, Labor’s free tertiary education scheme meant that I could go to university.…
Dan’s abysmal fictional Budget
As a former high-school English teacher it’s always struck me as odd that many of the most influential works of…
Hyperventilating over juristocracy
To read the newspapers in Australia and Britain – even the conservative newspapers – one would think the US Supreme…
Mum’s the word
Anthony Albanese can’t tell you much about his policies, but would you like to hear about his mother? The Labor…
Labor’s housing plan: the monster is in the detail
In 2010, the then Rudd government introduced a 40 per cent tax on mining companies. The tax took the form…
Krystle Mitchell on Dan Andrews and Victoria Police
[This article discusses multiple forms of trauma, including childhood trauma, sexual assault, and mental health.] I’m currently known as the…
