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What’s woke this week?
The woke’s erroneous moral certitude that brooks no dissent and fanatical adherence to the cause sees them increasingly resemble Islamist terrorists hell-bent on purging the…
Nobody hates like leftists
President Trump has contracted coronavirus and, in response, the world hs held a competition to determine who was the most…
Wanted: a vaccine against irrational COVID-19 thinking
The announcement the Federal Government is investing in the development of three new COVID-19 vaccines is welcome news for those…
Budget 2020: stand by for upheaval in the corporate sector – even with insolvency reform
I first wrote about the impending insolvency deluge on July 7. Back then the commentariat was focused on Victoria’s fresh…
Is this the narcissism epidemic?
Spare a thought for the Instagram influencers and social media mavens of Victoria: they haven’t been recognised in public for, like,…
Reading, writing – and gender studies
Let’s play a game of spot the odd one out and see how you go. New South Wales Greens Senator…
Government has never been so big – and yet so incompetent
In the history of Australia, never has government been so big and yet so incompetent in dealing with the problems…
Peter Ridd: Queensland public and farmers treated with contempt by science institutions over the reef
Our Australian Reef science organisations had a hard time at the Senate Inquiry into the effects of agriculture on the…
Budget 2020: the overwhelming case for accelerated income tax cuts
Heavy hints from ministers that planned personal income tax cuts will be brought forward in next week’s budget have sparked…
We’re all in this together – except the(ir) ABC
Anyone who didn’t see this coming has been living in a rock. Or possibly hiding in a basement with Joe…
EXCLUSIVE: Victorian Attorney General confirms pre-emptive detention fears
The Victorian state Attorney General, Jill Hennessy, has written to the Law Institute of Victoria attempting to allay concerns about…
Budget 2020: desperate times call for desperate measures
There’s an old saying which goes “desperate times call for desperate measures”. It means actions which may seem extreme in…
Has federalism failed us in the pandemic?
Disparate government policies within Australia in response to the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic have highlighted strengths and weaknesses in our federal structure.…
Why has Victoria become a danger zone for journalists?
Asking meticulous questions of Premier Daniel Andrews is the fastest way to get yourself sent to the gulag. China hasn’t…
A letter from COVID jail
I’ve been a very bad girl. I have come home to Australia to be with my husband. I travelled by…
Budget 2020: we need a strict supply side focus to fix this government induced recession
The dictum that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing” rings very true in the run-up to the federal budget.…
Danandrewstan’s new health minister is off to a flying start
Lessons have been learnt — or, as the modern bureaucrat might ask — learnings have been made? Not quite. The…
Clever virus, stupid Premier
For something made in China, Coronavirus is surprisingly good. How else to make sense of the latest non-sensical restrictions aimed…
The hotel quarantine fiasco must damn Dan’s indefinite detention bill
Evidence given at the Hotel Quarantine Inquiry gives no confidence that the government would be able to manage the implementation…
Vale, Giles Auty
It is with great sadness that we must inform SpecOz readers that the wonderful Giles Auty passed away last week…
Proved again: the(ir) ABC couldn’t be more out of touch
Ask anyone sane: there is absolutely no doubt that that episode of ABC’s Q&A was outrageous and unacceptable. You know,…
Our decision making ghosts
When it comes to making decisions, the Victorian hotel quarantine disaster shows neither politicians nor public servants seem to know…
EXCLUSIVE: Coate inquiry asked to investigate union links to hotel quarantine disaster
“I saw nothing. I heard nothing. I know nothing.” This is the recurring theme that has been the hallmark of…
Netball Australia held its Indigenous Round last week. That’s where things started to get interesting…
Netball Australia decided to hold an Indigenous Round last weekend to celebrate diversity and inclusion. What could possibly go wrong?…
Democracy is dead in Danandrewstan
The great wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is attributed with the expression “Indeed it has been said that democracy…
