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The electric highway – a ‘fuelish’ policy
Scott Morrison has had another green brainwave – spend a zillion dollars to build Australia’s electric/hydrogen highway. Naturally, this ‘Fuelish…
Inside Canberra they’re riding the Greens Machine
It was Labor’s Shadow Defence Minister, Kimberley Kitching, who spilled the beans by forcefully declaring that Labor should not do…
Canberra’s cultural change and the Jenkins looking glass
The 2021 federal parliamentary sitting year has been plagued and book-ended by allegations of poor behaviour. It started with Brittney…
Defending Australia from itself
World War I saw a significant tactical blunder by the Commonwealth countries in regards to Gallipoli where 480,000 allied forces…
Religious Discrimination Bill unleashes hell in the ABC
It’s only a matter of time before journalists at the ABC claim religious freedom is a threat to koalas. The…
Is the ALP ‘powering the future’?
With the collapse of the Soviet bloc came a disenchantment with socialist planning as an alternative to market capitalism. Environmentalism,…
How do you make a submarine?
How do you make a submarine? You are going to need a lot of toolmakers… The difficulty Australia has is…
Senior Constable seeks urgent injunction on vaccine mandate
In Western Australia, like other jurisdictions, police officers were required to have their first Covid vaccine dose by December 1…
The great purge rolls on
‘Like Fresh Meat: Detailing Rampant Sex Harassment in Australia’s Parliament.’ This was the lurid headline in the New York Times…
Last drinks for the Canberra bubble
It’s ironic that a federal minister should again promote alcoholic abstinence as a cure for whatever allegedly ails (or should…
Norway wishes you a Merry Wokemas
Not even Father Christmas is off limits to the unoriginal, hypocritical Woke mob. Last week the virtue signalling Norwegian postal…
Morrison wades blindly into the Solomon Islands
Civil chaos in the Solomon Islands has created an intricate geopolitical problem for Scott Morrison. Anti-government protests turned violent last…
Did we learn anything from 2021?
The last two years have been packed with chaos. Politicians have gone mad with power. Division has run rife throughout…
Vale Christian Kerr
It is with profound sadness that I must inform the family of Spectator Australia writers, readers and fans of the…
I won’t take the vaccine, here’s why
I won’t take a COVID vaccine. Here’s why. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris formalised American independence from Great Britain.…
Christian Kerr
As you’ll have seen from Rowan Dean’s announcement yesterday, our hitherto anonymous online editor, Christian Kerr, custodian of Flat White,…
Woke work is unhappy work
The more that we talk about work/life balance and diverse and inclusive workplaces, the unhappier we seem to be. Over…
Remembering Adam Smith before it’s too late
Adam Smith in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, marvelled at…
Notre Damn
If anything could tempt a vengeful god out of silence, it might be the unholy restoration plans for Notre Dame. …
Unhealthy public health
There was a time when public health people made a major contribution to our lives – ensuring the water in…
Omicron demonstrates the futility of mandatory vaccines
International travel has been restricted to fully vaccinated people for quite some time. It appears that the new coronavirus variant,…
Here’s to the risk takers
In the 1870s and 80s, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge was one of the engineering landmarks of the day.…
Vaccine mandates are as queer as a clockwork orange
What if I told you there was a way to end crime forever? That there was the possibility to eliminate…
Big tech, big target, good politics
Scott Morrison is going troll hunting. Well, there’s more in his announcement of new laws targeting social media and the…
How we hope to hold people responsible for the hotel quarantine disaster: people, not just bureaucracies
In late September this year efforts bore fruit to require WorkSafe Victoria to prosecute government agencies and individuals over the…
