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Do women really want longer working hours?

24 May 2021 4:00 am

Parents of small children are all too familiar with the competing demands of family, child care and work. Each family…

Upper Hunter: Malcolm loses. Again

23 May 2021 2:47 pm

Pro-tip. If you’re going to back an independent candidate, perhaps don’t do it when there are 12 other people lining…

Spectator Australia TV: Terror apologists in the West

23 May 2021 11:59 am

This week on SpecOz TV and Counter Culture, Dr David Adler joins us with the real story of what is…

Daniel Andrews’ budget belts business already caught by Covid

23 May 2021 4:00 am

“There have been some big winners from the pandemic – and after a year defined by widespread sacrifice, it’s only…

The Bachelorette: now even woker than the Project

21 May 2021 2:39 pm

Channel Ten have announced that the next Bachelorette will be an indigenous bisexual woman, proving that crap television and inclusive…

A quick science story for today’s school strikers

21 May 2021 12:01 pm

Geologist and author Ian Plimer was the special guest on Paul Murray Live on Tuesday, in to talk about hydrogen…

Odd. Celebrities and woke corporates haven’t stopped the strife in the Middle East

21 May 2021 4:00 am

Celebrities and woke corporations have not done enough to end the violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. As the death…

What do we want? Rights for Rodents!

20 May 2021 6:02 pm

There was chaos in downtown Sydney this morning when a large group of animal activists descended on World Square, which houses the office of animal…

Our monetary mandarins must be reading the SpecOz

20 May 2021 4:43 pm

In March of this year, I wrote in this august publication:  For the economic benefit of the nation, let’s end this…

We can respect each other’s choices and beliefs… (allegedly)

20 May 2021 2:59 pm

We forget that the Greens are a party founded on opposition to renewable energy — Bob Brown wanted a coal-fired…

Why are bureaucrats against teaching children to save?

20 May 2021 4:00 am

All three of my children are/were part of the CBA’s school banking program, and I volunteered as the school banking coordinator…

The Red planet

19 May 2021 6:06 pm

The last thing Mars needs is Communism.  When the Zhurong rover landed on Mars in May 2021, it created a state…

So does Clementine Ford also endorse the Mad Mullahs’ views on women?

19 May 2021 3:43 pm

Clementine Ford is certainly an expert on conflict — picking or provoking fights, anyway — but we didn’t know this…

Jews pretending to support Israel

19 May 2021 1:41 pm

Israel is at war. I have many friends and relatives in Israel of all ages and they rush to assure me that…

Our cricket whingers are talking balls

19 May 2021 11:33 am

The indefinite shutting of Australia’s international borders is bad policy, no matter how electorally appealing it is for our national…

Will we get mugged by the return of inflation?

19 May 2021 4:00 am

The recent lift in the United States annual inflation rate to 4.2 per cent, the highest in ten years, has…

What’s woke this week?

18 May 2021 6:30 pm

The overarching theme of this week’s woke stories is diversity and inclusion from the tiniest insect to multi-billion dollar corporations. White privilege and bus-stop seating are joined by…

On ‘chestfeeding’

18 May 2021 4:06 pm

Following the controversy over the “gender-inclusive” move of the Australian Breastfeeding Association to include natal males in their purview, I…

What Men’s Sheds and the Gay Games have in common

18 May 2021 1:34 pm

Recently, I was one of four female panellists at a Menzies Research Centre event in Melbourne.  Our discussion point was…

‘We’ll get you there, though some people may die’

18 May 2021 11:38 am

Like-a-Virgin Airlines has launched a new advertising campaign to encourage people to travel overseas despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The “We’ll…

Australian political journalism is crap

18 May 2021 4:00 am

‘The Coalition has abandoned debt and deficit in a monumental shift to its political narrative.’ That’s the refrain we’ve basically…

The woke comes preassembled at IKEA

17 May 2021 7:23 pm

For those of us who are still sane, we fully expect the lunar left to doggedly push ever more insanity…

Stop the shaming of boys in schools

17 May 2021 5:04 pm

Another week, another shaming of boys in schools. Last Monday a teacher at Como Secondary College in Perth stormed into a change room…

Auntie’s fudge

17 May 2021 3:26 pm

I saw this on Twitter. It led me to a Guardian piece: ABC demands rightwing thinktank correct ‘misleading’ claims on public…

WA Labor’s cynical power grab

17 May 2021 12:15 pm

I grew up in a small town in regional Western harvesAustralia. When I was a kid, we had a doctor in…