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Dear Nicolle Flint, we’re all sick of the hypocrisy too

1 March 2021 4:00 am

The list of those saddened by Nicolle Flint’s announcement that she will leave politics is extensive. Residents in her Adelaide…

Welcome to Spectator Australia TV

28 February 2021 5:50 pm

We’re excited to be launching Spectator Australia TV and CounterCulture, a new weekly web show and podcast presented by Institute…

If Craig Kelly wants to strike while the iron’s hot…

28 February 2021 5:35 pm

When he resigned from the Liberal Party last week, Craig Kelly signalled that he would be seeking to highlight the…

The World Economic Forum: ‘lockdowns are improving cities around the world’

28 February 2021 3:52 pm

The World Economic Forum — an economic think tank that thinks it’s great that everything is closed — announced today…

Stand by for Spectator Australia TV

28 February 2021 11:31 am

You’ve just enjoyed today’s Outsiders — and there’s more to come. More to come very, very soon. Stand by for…

EXCLUSIVE: Danandrewstan, when Extinction Rebellion can march on March 22, but diggers can’t on April 25

27 February 2021 1:58 pm

Earlier this month, to the fury of veterans, Melbourne’s Anzac Day March was cancelled for the second year running, with…

Victimhood feminism: whatever happened to empowering women?

26 February 2021 4:16 pm

As a teenage boy who saw his mother beaten and assaulted as a result of domestic violence I’m the first…

Dear Prime Minister, Australia is not a racist country

26 February 2021 1:31 pm

Although I was born overseas I consider myself a very proud citizen of this country. Australia is widely recognised as one of…

Covid-19 jabs: mandatory or voluntary?

26 February 2021 4:00 am

The Covid vaccine rollout has boosted the optimism of many who pin hope of a rapid recovery from the pandemic on the medication’s efficacy. But it is raising important questions around whether it should…

You don’t protect people by destroying their livelihoods

25 February 2021 6:42 pm

You may have seen reports that the UK’s top court has decided that Uber drivers are not independent contractors.  Australian unions are excited…

No Mickey Mouse business. Here’s the Celebrity Climate Change Club

25 February 2021 5:04 pm

Trigger warning: the following article may contain satire.  Before he boarded a private jet to make the journey from Sydney to Byron Bay last…

Victory? We’ve been outmanoeuvred by Facebook and Google

25 February 2021 3:16 pm

The federal parliament has passed the so-called ‘News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code’. Despite the name, and the…

#ScottyFromMarketing – and Ant from Ant’s Used Cars?

25 February 2021 2:30 pm

For what ever reason, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been colloquially named “Scotty from Marketing”. No doubt it is a…

In defence of Linda Reynolds

25 February 2021 12:01 pm

Defence minister Linda Reynolds is a decent person. She is honourable and compassionate, as well as someone whose talents and…

Want cultural change in politics? Rescue politics from the political class

25 February 2021 4:00 am

The entrenchment of the political class in parliaments across the nation is a rising issue in Australian politics.  It is…

Redefining the ABC

24 February 2021 6:40 pm

Question: What do you call a discussion between people who have no idea what they are talking about but are…

The sophisticated security of Parliament House

24 February 2021 4:38 pm

It’s constantly forgotten, but in Walter Burley Griffin’s plans for Canberra Capital Hill was supposed to be crowned with a…

Craig Kelly: cancel culture has now come to the government’s backbenches

24 February 2021 2:42 pm

That Craig Kelly does not believe he can speak “frankly” and “fearlessly” on important public policy matters such as the…

The Battle of the Bergs boosts Josh’s leadership ambitions

24 February 2021 12:02 pm

In the words of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, Facebook has re-friended Australia. Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg agreed to Facebook once again enabling…

Why everything ScoMo does is wrong in the left’s weird world

24 February 2021 4:00 am

The political and cultural Left claim that when it comes to the big issues they are not-playing-politics. They say it all the time. But they are currently…

Is this the real cultural problem in politics?

23 February 2021 6:37 pm

The Brittany Higgins matter keeps moving on. The allegations are very disturbing. But there seems a more fundamental question not being…

Madonna: over the borderline

23 February 2021 3:05 pm

Madonna, terrified of dying from the plague, has taken the vaccine. And no, we are not talking about Covid-19.  The…

Craig Kelly goes to the crossbench

23 February 2021 12:17 pm

The Liberal Party and its forebears have always given their members the right to speak out, particularly backbenchers. South Australian…

Can incumbents lose in the age of Covid-19?

23 February 2021 11:31 am

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan is about smash the opposition in the March 6 state election. A thoroughly iffy, whiffy…

We’ve got the vaccine, but what will fix our sense of nationhood?

23 February 2021 4:00 am

With Covid jabs now beginning to roll out, my sense is that we’ll soon declare victory over the pandemic and…