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Dante Alighieri: a giant of the West and a man for our times
Tuesday marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet, politician and philosopher. Dante, or as…
Amen to Abbott
The Twitteratti have been in a tizz since Wednesday when a busybody got a shot of Tony Abbott, sans mask,…
Josh Frydenberg defends the indefensible with JobKeeper
How do you defend the indefensible? You give a politician a pen and some newspaper column centimetres. I tend not…
Why has Queensland Labor declared war on Catholic healthcare over euthanasia?
What contempt the Queensland Government must have for Christians that they have chosen the middle of a pandemic to pick…
High Court ruling means the end of social media
It’s not very often a news item pokes its head above the laughable parody of our national conversation. Get your…
Just the facts: Coronavirus in Australia by the numbers
Notes: The data below is generally current as at 7 September 2021 however there may be some minor discrepancies due…
Why should women tolerate the big swinging dicks of the transgender movement – Part II
The Attorney-General Michaelia Cash announced the appointment of a new Human Rights Commissioner, Lorraine Finlay, this week. I live in…
Climate warriors, heroes and idiots
Former Wallaby great David Pocock was interviewed on ABC Radio National by Fran Kelly last week. He was invited onto…
The EU is in serious decline
The European Union shows all the signs of worsening economic, social and political decline, with symptoms ranging from tepid economic growth and…
The global media calls out Australia’s repressive Covid order
For students of democracy and foreign policy, Australia has been experiencing interesting times in the last two years. All countries devote enormous effort and considerable resources to…
Zeros as heroes
Absolutism is stalking the land. Extreme policies are being proposed and justified as the only possible response considering the supposedly…
Our media is shrugging off its duty to hold governments and their agencies to account
The pandemic has revealed many cracks in our society, not least of all in our media. One reality that can…
Where do we stand after Afghanistan?
It is a strange and curious fact that moments of seismic historical significance are so often capable of being reduced…
Why this social conservative might just vote for the Liberal Democrats
Being the discerning lot that they are, Spectator Australia readers would have by now worked out that I am a social…
Adam Bandt: “We should be campaigning side by side with socialists”
Greens leader Adam Bandt last week gave an interview to American left magazine Jacobin (the name says all you need…
Black Hawk up
Footage of the Taliban performing a victory flight in an American Black Hawk helicopter triggered hopes of a Biden resignation. …
The agender of the ABC
My attention is repeatedly and reluctantly draw to the ongoing focus of the ABC to rid women of traditional and…
The UN says no coal by 2030
Reminding us of what a difference a year makes was yesterday’s exhortation by UN Climate Action Team head Selwyn Hart, that…
The strange Tassie death cult
Death Cult: “A fringe religious group that is obsessed with death.” Or, if you prefer, the Tasmanian Greens. With just…
Andrews’ weakness is his conceit, but can the Liberals take down Goliath?
Good polls come and go. Bad polls linger for longer than most would like, but only rarely do leaders grow…
Matthew Guy and Michael O’Brien: the raindrop race
Did you ever have raindrop races when you were a child; pick a raindrop on a window with a sibling,…
Tough Love: Covid-19 and the racism of low expectations
A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…
Remember when we respected the police?
Aren’t members of the police force Australian citizens too? Citizens who have families and are also hurting because of the…
There’s nothing Liberal about the Liberal Party
John Ruddick is the Liberal Democrat Party candidate for the Senate. He recently wrote in these pages about the just-passed…
Identity politics is a threat to societies
Identity politics has been weaponised to sow division across the Western world. Global outrage over the killing of George Floyd…
