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If Craig Kelly wants to strike while the iron’s hot…
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’
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
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
The entrenchment of the political class in parliaments across the nation is a rising issue in Australian politics. It is…
Redefining the ABC
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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?
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?
With Covid jabs now beginning to roll out, my sense is that we’ll soon declare victory over the pandemic and…
Obama’s coup
In his riveting but deeply disturbing new book, The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President, investigative journalist…
Our staffer brats are just part of a deeper political malaise
It’s a pleasant surprise to read “The rise of the staffer brat” and see that at least someone agrees with…
