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Woke@work – and joyless, mistrustful, dispiriting and dreary
Just as I was celebrating the fact that in ditching Turnbull from the ridiculous New South Wales climate job the…
When we are old: dignity in aged care
Over the last year, a huge proportion of the residents in the aged care facilities around our country did not…
Captain America versus… Jordan Peterson?
The progressives’ latest offering of ‘woker-tainment’ shows they are more interested in political posturing than creating beautiful or meaningful art. …
Jim Molan determined to win the fight of his life
There are times when a battle needs to be fought and mates need to stand up and be counted. Many…
Dan’s days may be numbered, but beware his legacy
Speculation has now commenced as to the future leadership of Premier Daniel Andrews given his slow progress in recovering from…
Ignorant new puritans are out to purge our poetry
It was the by-line that caught my eye “The whole canon is being erased”, or at least that’s how I…
The federal government didn’t kill university arts departments. Try cultural Marxism
In a defence of arts and humanities departments in the Nine newspapers last week that flagged concerns about their survival,…
Spectator Australia TV – how much longer will the corona craziness continue?
It’s been just over a year since the Wuhan coronavirus changed the world as we know it. Back then, only…
Prince Philip, climate sceptic, already spinning in his grave
Prince Philip was a climate change sceptic. In correspondence to Spectator Australia contributor and author Ian Plimer back in 2018,…
A farewell to the Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip once said that his job – first, second and last – was ‘to never let the Queen down’.…
What’s woke this week?
In the new woke order racism is everywhere. Systems of law hide ‘coded language’ and discrimination. Educational institutions deliver ‘unequal…
Why do activists only want a certain type of woman in politics?
“Women are hard on women. Women dislike women.” — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. Over the last century,…
Vaccine ‘passports’: a legal and ethical minefield
On Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined his ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown. An important aspect of this plan is…
JobKeeper: dead, buried, cremated - and irrelevant
The corona-crisis has given birth to a mishmash of public policy programs with ‘Job’ in the title, but there is…
The Cuba of the Southern Hemisphere?
Ever since the radical privately-funded and owned Museum of Old and New Art, MONA, opened, Tasmania has gone through first…
The Tax Office gives the gold finger to process and justice
How would you feel if you owed the Australian Taxation Office nothing—in fact the ATO owed you money—yet on the…
Australians don’t want Big Tech censoring their views
In a world of rampant nanny-statism, and hectoring busybodies, Australians want social media to companies to leave them alone. The…
Their ABC’s divine comedy
ABC viewers have complained that the public broadcaster showed footage of Hillsong easter services rather than focusing on “mainstream churches”.…
Women are dangerous
No one has done more damage to the employment prospects of young women than Labor and their feminist activist mates. …
Trick question: why test brick wall with head?
The late and great American columnist Charles Krauthammer reminded his readers that to understand politics you have to remember that…
Why aren’t we including porn in debate over ‘toxic culture’?
The Canberra Bubble has become the unlikely setting for a conflict that had to come – between the desiccated descendants…
We can’t consent to this traducing of the law
Anyone who denies that the push by activists to redefine consent is politically motivated is either naïve or a liar. …
Sorry, Twits, but Newspoll doesn’t mean the PM’s swinging in the breeze
It’s bad news for the Morrison Government. Australians have turned, almost everywhere. Just look at the figures below. Interesting poll,…
The Morrison government needs a hard jab over vaccination levels
The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines across Australia is behind time, behind volume and well behind the expectations the Morrison government…
Tonight’s viewing: Malcolm on the Outer
From Wikipedia: Malcolm in the Middle, sorry, Malcolm on the Outer. The series follows a dysfunctional working class family [THE LIBERAL PARTY]…
