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High noon for academic freedom at the High Court
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Curtin…
Sing me a ditty about Palestine
There is something profoundly disturbing and morally challenging in the way many view the Israel-Palestine conflict. The chant “from the river to the…
The Australian public dis-service: part II
On Monday, I wrote in these august pages about the lack of economic reform in Australia being a function of both poor quality…
A great badness is abroad
I was recently contacted by a highly intelligent woman whose granddaughter came home from school very upset about things she…
Desperate Dan is ditching democracy
It seems that the Victorian Labor government has become fed up with having to operate in a parliamentary democracy. The Age reports…
When’s Four Corners coming for Alfred Deakin?
When is Four Corners coming for Alfred Deakin? He’s been dead for 102 years so can’t sue, surely an advantage…
The western world’s elites conspire to outlaw cheap energy
Aspirations of the “have nots” or “have too littles” have, through their elected representatives brought an inexorable growth in the…
So much green globalist garbage – and now comes the last straw
The G7 conference has become an excuse for politicians to engage in an arms race of climate policies designed to…
Are we resigned to an early election?
After talk of an early election began in earnest in late January, polling suggested a majority of Australians were opposed…
Vaccine efficacy vs harms
Last week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration announced Australia’s second death likely caused by blood clotting from the AstraZeneca vaccine. This took the total reports of cases of…
Dear ABC, how did this get broadcast
One of the best emails I get in my inbox (after Spectator’s Morning Shot, of course) is the Fourth Watch Newsletter…
Operation weakened borders
As Tony Abbott’s immigration minister, Scott Morrison had one job: stop the boats. Stop the boats he did. He made…
Shining a light on Dark Emu
Finally, the spurious claims of Bruce Pascoe are coming under serious scrutiny from a source more credible than those alleged hotbeds of racism, Quadrant or the Dark…
The Australian public dis-service
Former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld once quipped: “You go to war with the army you have, not the army…
The comic relief bombs as a nation waits for Dan Andrews’ return
Reports of Melbourne’s renowned theatres all being closed this weekend are false. A Daniel Andrews’s scripted tragicomedy Let’s Lock Up…
The whinging at Peta Credlin’s gong exposes the left’s double-standards
On the one hand, left feminists love to hurl tedious tantrums and screech that more women should be recognised in the Order of…
The West’s Iron Ore Curtain and its electronic Stasi
Have you tried to travel interstate to Western Australia lately? If so, you would have been required to apply for a…
The great G7 jacket wars
It’s the G7 and as world leaders gather here’s the big question: who wore it better – Dr Jill and the psychobabble elder-care…
My plastic crack
Anyone born in the seventies or eighties will know that those were the golden years for collectable, mass-produced toys. It…
The looming medical apartheid
As is well known, the Afrikaans word apartheid means “apartness”. In South Africa, this involved keeping blacks and whites apart. We have moved on from…
Martin Luther King as a Trojan horse
Martin Luther King Jr. is a Trojan horse. Ask yourself, what happens when the conflict between Western Civilisation and the…
No philanthropy, thanks, we’re leftists
The other day, Alexandria “She Guevara” Ocasio Cortez took to Twitter to complain how her “abuela” (grandma) in Puerto Rico…
The King Cnuts of coronavirus
In eleventh century England, King Cnut was told by his admiring courtiers that ‘there is nothing on earth that dares…
What is the purpose of our universities?
Australia’s universities need to spend less time focussing on research and international students, and more time improving and safeguarding the educational…
Fighting for the truth about the Reef
It is an injustice that turtles are blown up in the Gulf of Mexico because American oil companies choose a…
