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A what’s woke special: and to think that we saw it in Wokeworld this week

11 March 2021 4:30 pm

The Twittersphere this week went into meltdown at the news that Dr Seuss Enterprises — the company that is supposed…

Witches by name, lunatics by nature

11 March 2021 2:18 pm

The time has come to choose. Do you hold firm to common sense and believe strongly in the rule of…

Daniel Andrews is under investigation for indictable criminal offences over hotel quarantine. We’ve got the inside story

11 March 2021 10:30 am

Developments late last week confirm that the Victorian government — including Premier Daniel Andrews — is under investigation for indictable…

The Reserve Bank has failed us

11 March 2021 4:00 am

Earlier this month, former Treasurer Peter Costello stated the bleeding obvious when he warned “ultra-low interest rates risk creating the…

Can a $50 note identify as a $100 bill?

10 March 2021 7:37 pm

If you were to believe everything you read in the mainstream press, the greatest threat we face is from the…

Milo comes out as straight, chaste and Catholic

10 March 2021 5:36 pm

Milo Yiannopoulos coming out as ‘straight’ is like taking the Social Justice final exam, where you have to sit down…

No upside for electricity customers in the early closure of coal generators

10 March 2021 4:23 pm

The announcement that EnergyAustralia’s Yallourn power station in Victoria is to close in 2028, two to four years earlier than had been expected, is an inevitable outcome…

Work from home is here to stay – and a productivity boom is about to be unleashed

10 March 2021 1:30 pm

The global energy giant BP has told around 25,000 of its staff that working from home is now permanent. This is…

Did the Palace really want a freckly ranga?

10 March 2021 11:30 am

Playing the race card with young Archie was one of the inevitabilities of the Meghan and Harry Spectacular. The question…

Unmask our kids

10 March 2021 4:00 am

There certainly were a few revelations for the Australian public in 2020. The complete dominance of state Premiers and governments,…

What will a Mark McGowan landslide mean for religious freedom?

9 March 2021 7:35 pm

This Saturday, West Australians go to the polls. All the indications are that the McGowan Labor government will be re-elected…

Meghan and Harry: Ultimate Survivors

9 March 2021 6:12 pm

Poor Meghan and Harry. Forget surviving wars, famines and droughts, even the ravages of the long-running Survivor television show. Are…

Neither age nor bureaucracy will condemn them: Anzac marches must be on

9 March 2021 1:41 pm

Barring further acts of political cowardice, Australians will commemorate Anzac Day 2021 as they have done for almost 106 years.…

Megan and Harry: don’t say we (or Mark Latham, actually) didn’t warn you

9 March 2021 11:30 am

Mark Latham, The Spectator Australia, 26 May 2018: The former NSW Premier Neville Wran had an interesting take on the…

Fighting over chips: why Taiwan matters

9 March 2021 4:00 am

Throughout the course of human history, there have been wars over land, water, food, commodities and even pride. Unless there…

No one was saved

8 March 2021 9:56 pm

“I look at all the lonely people…” Attorney-General Christian Porter is no doubt desperately clinging on to friends, as too…

Thorns among the roses: Dave Sharma’s International Women’s Day debacle

8 March 2021 8:34 pm

Liberal politician Dave Sharma handed out pink flowers on International Women’s Day, sending all the petals on Twitter into a…

Daniel Andrews’ corroborree of jobbery. Part III: the gold rush

8 March 2021 4:27 pm

“Yet out of the very roots of the grass we shake gold. We can see the particles shining as we…

Ban the swastika

8 March 2021 2:00 pm

Free speech purists might fret that a law banning the display of Nazi symbols – even though distasteful – amounts…

How Daniel Andrews can still control Victoria – even once he’s gone

8 March 2021 4:00 am

Last sitting week the Victorian Government, with support of most of the opposition, placed a ban on fracking in the…

Time to stop standover tactics by the Tax Office against small business

7 March 2021 6:11 pm

The Federal government’s small business agency, the Small Business Ombudsman, has called for major changes to the way the Australian Taxation…

This week on Spectator Australia TV

7 March 2021 12:00 pm

Here it is – the latest episode of Spectator Australia TV and CounterCulture. While you’re there don’t forget to subscribe…

Why is the Pope trolling Traditional Catholics?

7 March 2021 5:00 am

In Rome in October 2019 a young traditional or ‘Trad’ Catholic man grabbed several small Amazonian ‘mother earth’ statues from a church near the Vatican and threw them into the River Tiber.   The five small wooden statues had…

The Brownshirts have gone digital and they’ve cancelled Grandpa

6 March 2021 6:34 pm

The Brownshirts are back and this time they’re digital, best exemplified on 18 February when 22-year-old student activist Momoko Nojo…

Writers block

6 March 2021 4:02 pm

Was it Snoopy who said Being-A-Writer means never having to complete your novel? I’ve been thinking a lot about being…