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Does integrity matter to the Teals? Let’s see
Before it was taken down last week, the out-sized Josh Frydenberg placard on the side of my home in Surrey…
An outsider’s view of the election
As an outside observer, my opinion of the recent federal election may well be different from both the politicians and…
Menzies’ middle class needs some help
Spectator Australia contributor, James Allan, recently made a couple of very important observations about the Liberal Party. First, he showed…
Long live the Queen
Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrates a 70-year peaceful reign. It makes her the third longest serving monarch of…
Australia’s green gamble
Australians took a great green gamble in the recent election. Green millionaires and other left-wing activists supported slick campaigns promoting…
Humanity: stuck with palaeolithic minds in the 21st C
The barbaric attack of Russia on Ukraine came as a powerful shock to many of us. When the war exploded…
Teal: the triumph of AWFUL
Political Anthropology is always fraught with pathologisation, condemnation, and character critiques; most of the mainstream media’s pieces about Donald Trump’s…
SA’s climate emergency: prepare for carbon footprint tracking
The new South Australian Labor government has declared a ‘climate emergency’. Climate lockdowns, surveillance of your ‘carbon footprint’, and restrictions…
Naomi is not crying wolf
Major issues of the day tend to fall along political and ideological lines. But not always. Some matters are so…
The Pacific flirts with China at its own risk
Forewarned is forearmed… As China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, visits the nations of the Pacific, the rest of the world…
Customers won’t like the new energy game
Right now in Australia, we are seeing some smaller electricity retailers being forced out of the market and voluntarily shedding…
Voters put the ‘majors’ on notice
In this federal election, the Coalition and the freedom parties – Liberal Democrats, One Nation, and United Australia Party –…
Autocratic behaviour thrives in Western Australia
Western Australia’s Premier, Mark McGowan, recently launched a war of words on Peter Dutton after being asked by the media…
Depp wins battle, but men are losing the war
Along with many around the world, I predicted Johnny Depp would win his defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Predictably, much…
Is the Catholic Church going Woke?
Double Shot Editor Terry Barnes wrote on Tuesday there was an article just waiting for me to write on a…
A global food crisis approaches
With the Covid pandemic, an ongoing war in Europe, and soaring inflation all jostling for the leading headline, some may…
And the winner is: Woke capitalism!
Capitalism is dead in Australia. Long live capitalism. The economic system that made the West rich has been defeated –…
Netflix universities…?
Universities around the world have compromised academic rigour to serve Woke maxims. Now, this centuries-old and once highly regarded institution…
The ‘leave me alone’ coalition
I have never really liked the whole left-right political construct. A framework of who sat to the left or the…
China rising: a paradigm shift for the ADF
Australia is facing an existential crisis that demands immediate and radical action. The confluence of China’s rise, a declining America,…
Holy war: Pelosi v. the Catholic Church
The Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco has banned Nancy Pelosi from taking communion because of her continued support for abortion…
We’re not dead yet!
In response to the federal election and to paraphrase Mark Twain, the death of centre-right parties, including the Liberal Party,…
Will the ABC tell the whole story about Mount Dispersion?
I think ABC reached the zenith of Wokeism in a tall story supposedly Honouring Aboriginal History and Mourning an Atrocity…
Jacinda’s alternate climate reality
I sometimes wonder if I live in an alternate reality. A parallel universe, if you will. This is a universe…
Bend the knee, peasants!
The breakdown of the nation-state has been instrumental in global institutions growing their power and influence. How did this breakdown…