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Budget 2020: Is anyone brave enough to mention immigration?
Even before the Wuhan coronavirus spread into Australia and derailed almost 30 years of “uninterrupted economic growth”, there was a growing sense…
Budget 2020: Josh, re-read Reagan
In 1987 a very important volume appeared by economic historian Roberts Higgs entitled Crisis and Leviathan. Although packed with a…
Bye-bye, oh sweet Eskimo Pie
Stop right there and put down that chocolate-coated ice cream treat! It’s not just sugar that is dripping from those…
V FOR VICTORY: Liberty wins as Daniel Andrews surrenders over his indefinite detention bill
After calling for the release of the amendments to COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill the Spectator Australia has now received…
Budget 2020: Whatever happened to the Josh Frydenberg who believed in less government?
In the week of the Budget with all the talk about Australia’s finances, one thing is for sure – the endless spendathon has continued. It is no…
REVEALED: Get set for debt ’til 2080
Australia is unlikely to be debt-free until 2080 as a result of the lockdowns implemented in response to COVID-19. The…
Budget 2020: the wrong type of compassion
Federal Budget day is a political commentators’ wet dream. It’s also a spectator’s sport for any politics junkie watching ABC…
BREAKING: Wham, bam, we’ve whacked Dan – and his hateful indefinite detention bill
The Spectator Australia’s campaign against the heinous Covid-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill that attacked the civil liberties and rights of…
Budget 2020: too much spending, too little reform
The Budget is too focused on the short-term, too heavy on spending and too light on permanent structural reform, Centre…
If Labor ever wants to be trusted with the economy, then Labor MPs should learn how tax rates work
The federal budget’s failure to fund adult remedial math will surely hurt the future prospects of Labor MP Joanne Ryan.…
The(ir) ABC’s gimmicky gotcha budget broadcast
In her post-budget interview with Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, ABC 7.30 anchor, Leigh Sales, seriously embarrassed herself and her viewers. Sales…
The Budget’s new normal remains rooted in the real world
Whatever else one can say about tonight’s federal Budget, at least Josh Frydenberg has held the line firm against the…
Capslock campaigning
Last night, President Donald Trump ran a little experiment on us. It came in the form of rapid-fire CAPSLOCK tweets,…
Lidia Thorpe: trying to change the system from within?
Imagine loathing a country so much that you take a seat in its parliament. Step forward Lidia Thorpe, Richard Di…
Chairman Dan flunks corona class. Again
You’ll recall our little reality check from a fortnight ago after Newspoll found 62 per cent of Victorian voters believe…
We all know habeas corpus goes, but did we tell you about the ethnic angles of Daniel Andrews’ Omnibus Bill?
When future generations ask when did Australians gave up on democracy and freedom, the answer will be 18 September 2020;…
Our ruling Kakistocracy
Studies have shown that cognitive diversity can improve the effectiveness of thinking and quality of decision making in groups. This is in part…
No doubt the ABC will blame the lack of coverage on funding cuts
Big, big, big. It would be hard to get a more lurid tale than The Times article, republished in The…
Border bans: premiers put the constitution behind them
Hi folks, welcome to our neck of the woods (mind the charred koalas). The dunny is down the back there…
Did Chairman Dan just blink?
Daniel Andrews has always been firm: the average new daily coronavirus case count — Victoria-wide — needs to drop below…
Sco Mo, Josh: this is what we need to hear tomorrow
Many Australians rightly look back on the Hawke-Keating-Howard-Costello era of the 1980s and 1990s as Australia’s golden era of reform. From the…
REVEALED: How the journalists’ union put the Cult of Dan ahead of journalists and journalism
Even before Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced his unprecedented nine-hour curfew, one hour a day limit for exercise and prohibition…
The ABC has just moved further from the mainstream
Perhaps the staff at the ABC voted themselves a pay rise so they could donate the extra money to the…
The number one concern of Victoria’s rulers? Identity politics, it appears – not human life
While you were distracted by the atrocious horror show that is reality in Victoria, Dan Andrews has successfully created a…
Victoria’s unemployment double jeopardy
More than eight million Australians collectively clenched their sphincters in anxious unison last week, as the plan to gradually scale…
