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Australia desperately needs a Criminal Cases Review Commission

8 February 2022 12:00 pm

Talk about missing the point… All those clamouring for a federal corruption commission to be an election issue have so…

Israel confounds the promise of vaccines as the way out of Covid

8 February 2022 9:00 am

Israel was meant to have been the showpiece of vaccination success in escaping from the threat of coronavirus. Instead, it…

Justin Langer thrown under the cricket bus

8 February 2022 4:00 am

Ian Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with…

Labor loves the ‘F’ word, but is too bashful to say it

7 February 2022 2:00 pm

Queensland loves a good rort, doesn’t it? Their integrity commissioner, Dr. Nikola Stepanov, resigned midway through her three-year term last week. Why?…

‘Conspiracy theorists’ – the new extremists

7 February 2022 12:00 pm

The rationale that dominates the minds of the mainstream, which for over two years has dictated the dominant discourse, seems…

The real hippies are with Joe Rogan

7 February 2022 9:00 am

I have been trying to avoid writing about Joe Rogan since everyone has a take on the old hippy rockers vs…

Will the Religious Discrimination Bill see the light of day?

7 February 2022 4:00 am

The 2022 Australian federal election must be held on or before May 21, 2022 to elect members of the 47th…

Australia is already a republic – leave it alone

6 February 2022 11:00 am

The great English philosopher, John Locke, wrote a revolutionary book called Two Treatises of Government. It was most surely revolutionary. First published…

Did Citipointe prove there’s no ‘freedom of religion’?

6 February 2022 7:00 am

This week, Citipointe Christian College was the centre of a mini publicity maelstrom. The Brisbane Christian school first released –…

When teachers become hate preachers

5 February 2022 10:58 am

This month marks 20 years since a grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh after his November 2001 capture in Afghanistan.…

How do we fix ‘stupid’?

5 February 2022 8:00 am

It took centuries of history – wars fought, won, and lost – to bring together the world’s greatest philosophers and…

Can Big Tech remain as the arbiter of politics?

4 February 2022 2:00 pm

Increasingly, climate change is coming to dominate energy supply and indeed the whole economy. Modest changes to the climate are…

‘Whoopsi’ Goldberg’s learning curve

4 February 2022 12:00 pm

‘I stand corrected,’ said Whoopi Goldberg, the day after she was advised that the Holocaust was indeed a racist slaughter.…

Midwifery language dehumanising women

4 February 2022 8:57 am

A soon-to-be-released collaborative research paper led by a Sydney academic suggests that ‘de-sexing’ language around female reproduction could have ‘consequences…

Did Scott Morrison throw freedom of religion under the bus?

4 February 2022 4:00 am

A Christian school valiantly tries to uphold the Christian (and scientific) view of gender. It attempts to defend the Christian…

Australian Conservatism: comfortable, relaxed and in mortal danger

3 February 2022 2:00 pm

A quarter of a century ago, John Howard said he wanted Australians to be comfortable and relaxed about their history,…

I want my Australia back

3 February 2022 12:00 pm

Happy Australia Day! (Well, it was.) The day brought me mixed feelings of pride and shame, but not in the…

Hellish roasting for Citipointe College

3 February 2022 9:00 am

A Christian school catering for Christian families who value Christian education affirmed its commitment to Christianity this week, and all…

Newspeak and rewriting history

3 February 2022 4:00 am

As our captured two-party system embeds robotic politicians in the parliaments, their language is drying up and becoming highly formulaic.…

White dwarfs

2 February 2022 2:00 pm

‘White dwarfs’. These two words could get me cancelled. Maybe I should have written about panchromatic ex-Solar System height-challenged exhausted…

How do I vote for the ‘Barty Party’?

2 February 2022 12:00 pm

In the contrasts between Ash Barty and Nick Kyrgios we see a little of the divisions that rend modern Australian…

A straw man defence of Dark Emu

2 February 2022 4:00 am

Recently in a comment thread, a Spectator Australia reader took me to task for claiming in the promotion for my…

Australia is in love with Ash Barty

1 February 2022 2:00 pm

Everyone in Australia is in love with Ash Barty, and for good reason. That young lady has just won the…

The plot against natural immunity

1 February 2022 12:00 pm

Natural immunity is a long-held reality of the human body. Ever since disease came into this world, humans have battled…

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

1 February 2022 8:10 am

The moment Mr Morrison claimed on March 18, 2020 that Covid was a once-in-100-year pandemic, an opportunity opened up for…