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We have no choice? Really, Mr Premier?

22 July 2021 3:30 pm

The Premier of Victoria said a few interesting things when he plunged the state into its fifth lockdown.  He was…

The amazing return of Captain Australia

22 July 2021 2:13 pm

Eighty-one years ago, comic book writer Joe Simon created Captain America, an agile and resilient superhero who represented the American…

And the winner is… us

22 July 2021 12:01 pm

Finally, the 2020 Olympics are finally about to kick off. So why does it already feel so underwhelming?   After…

Covid pen-pushers write our future

22 July 2021 4:00 am

How many public service jobs and third party government contracts have been created specifically to hold up the Covid bureaucracy?  Forget about…

A simple question each for Annastacia Palaszczuk and Scott Morrison on the games

21 July 2021 10:00 pm

Q: Premier, what public services will be cut or what taxes will be raised to allow Queensland to host the…

An official health warning: suspect everyone

21 July 2021 6:40 pm

The New South Wales Chief Health Officer told us yesterday that “whilst it is human nature to engage in conversation…

We have become Pavlov’s dogs – or Mark McGowan’s and Dan Andrews’, anyway

21 July 2021 5:00 pm

Just mention lockdown and a certain type of Australian starts salivating — Victorians and Western Australians. That’s one of the…

Can you spot the Victorian opposition?

21 July 2021 4:04 pm

There are less than 500 days until the next Victorian state election. With Victorians well into our fifth never-ending lockdown,…

We can’t eradicate coronavirus. Let’s not eradicate our national spirit trying

21 July 2021 2:00 pm

I feel incredibly lucky to be living in our beautiful country. Thanks to our swift response to Covid-19, we have…

Is this the most outrageous Covid scaremongering yet?

21 July 2021 12:28 pm

Have you noticed the latest scare tactic pushed in the Victorian press conferences?  After 16 months of waiting for the…

If this is a global pandemic, why aren’t we loosening our chains like the rest of the world?

21 July 2021 4:00 am

Sydneysiders, as a Victorian I know how red with anger you all are when your Premier gets up day after…

The last thing we need is a bill of rights

20 July 2021 6:09 pm

Over a century ago the great American jurist James Bradley Thayer warned against handing social policy decision-making over to the…

Big Public Health’s tobacco tactics haven’t worked with smoking. Why should they work with obesity?

20 July 2021 4:19 pm

I’m not one for personal criticism, even dumb, socialist, hypocritical, anti-everything Greens. But if I were, I would put public…

New polling: the emperor has no clothes

20 July 2021 2:37 pm

It’s official — or as official as it can be. The emperor — the Prime Minister, actually — has no…

It doesn’t matter what any government says: you are essential

20 July 2021 12:43 pm

One of the foundational concepts upon which western civilisation is built is the Judeo-Christian insistence that every human being is…

Australian schools need a tough love reboot

20 July 2021 4:00 am

Pupils, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way. You choose.  If Australia can’t improve our international K-12…

The only two figures you need to know in Newspoll today

19 July 2021 6:24 pm

One fascinating figure is missing from today’s Newspoll – the margin of error. As a quick glance at the table…

The Oldest Culture: Science

19 July 2021 6:09 pm

The third in a series of articles examining Dark Emu-style claims. These days we hear a lot about what a…

It’s Doctor Demento

19 July 2021 4:02 pm

Poor old John Hewson has been dumped as a columnist with the Nine chipwrappers for the great crime of being…

Lockdowns: last resort or first response?

19 July 2021 4:00 am

Just two weeks ago, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a four-phase plan agreed upon by the federal and state leaders…

What has liberalism ever done for us?

18 July 2021 5:30 pm

Liberal civil society stands at a critical point where a choice must be made; whether to evict the barbarians from the citadel or…

IT’S BACK: What’s woke this week?

18 July 2021 12:00 pm

Does it seem to you that rather than falling slowly like Alice, we’re gathering speed in our plunge down the rabbit hole to Wokerland?…

Spectator Australia TV: why lockdowns destroy lives

18 July 2021 10:19 am

On Counter Culture – why lockdowns destroy lives, with Professor Gigi Foster. Got something to add? Join the discussion and…

Fire! Fire! Fire!

17 July 2021 4:33 pm

The Spectator Australia’s Twitter account was suspended for 12 hours last night for the terrible sin of ‘violating community standards’.  This…

Mark McGowan may have repented – but has reminded us of the threat to religious freedom in Australia

17 July 2021 2:53 pm

Yesterday, the Western Australian government backed down from its decision to cancel a booking made by Australian Christian Lobby to run…