Flat White
Stamp duty has no place in a post corona economy
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a…
Why I am a racist*
* And so, most likely, are you** ** According to the new nomenclature. I was born in another time and…
The worrying web of witches
If you’ve been trying to ignore the culture wars, or thought you were above them, hopefully, recent violent events on…
How the evil, wicked plastic bag became a corona fighter
It is not often that an identified Public Enemy Number One actually becomes a Superhero. And it took a pandemic…
Facts are irrelevant now
‘This is the excellent foppery of the world…’ — Edmund in King Lear (Act 1, Scene 2), Shakespeare. In an…
The coronavirus crisis we never needed to have
We can’t blame our leaders for being caught off-guard by the coronavirus; we all were. We can, however, hold our…
So it was a weapon?
You read it first on The Spectator Australia on March 23, 2020. I outlined all the viruses over the past…
Many happy returns of the day, Your Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning British monarch on September 9, 2015, when she surpassed the reign of her great-great-grandmother…
Defund the police? Whatever could go wrong?
“Off the pigs!” OK, I confess: back in my wild youth, this was an oft-heard phrase rolling off my lips.…
The ABC of protesting
Come along, it will be a riot. Here is the story that proves once and for all that the Staff…
Time to call a terrorist a terrorist and ban Hezbollah in full
Last month, the German government took the principled decision to ban the entire Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah and designate it…
White opportunism matters
Well, well, well. Look at what we have here. Gatecrashers. Extinction Rebellion gatecrashers. Look at the latest email from Mother…
“They’re everywhere, those Hi-Vis Guys, polishing up to stay alive.”
Somewhere in a Melbourne suburban street near you, someone in an orange Hi-Vis vest is polishing a lamppost with disinfectant…
After too many wasted weeks, our schools need a focus on literacy and numeracy
School students are now almost entirely back to regular classes, but the battle isn’t yet won. What should students be doing once they return to…
The race rhetoric that causes more harm than harmony
George Floyd’s cruel murder is sparking much-needed discussion about justice and racial harmony in America and beyond. The ripple effect…
Where is the left on the Drew Pavlou outrage?
The West was built on doubt. When it fails us, when we slip into the blinkered certainty of ideology and…
Cut red tape, green tape and taxes – as only the private sector can get us out of recession
All eyes were on the headline economic growth figure in the national accounts released on Wednesday, which shows the first…
Are protesters now essential workers?
One minute the media are telling us coronavirus is so lethal that we dare not leave our homes. The next…
Welcome to recession – with a ticking personal debt bomb
My family migrated to Australia in the 1950s with barely enough cash to bless themselves. Such is the story of…
America or Australia: #AllLivesMatter
To anyone who thinks that the recent race riots in the US is about racial justice and not police brutality…
Anti-police protesters don’t have a clue
Recently I returned to the coast after spending almost a year reporting the news in Mount Isa. The Aboriginal and…
ScoMo’s renovation rescue needs a rethink
When the Morrison Government’s home renovation cash grants were announced on Monday, one couldn’t help but think about the wealthy…
This is not America, so don’t play at riots here
Australian eyes are turned across the Pacific, gazing in dismay as the United States once again engages in destructive domestic…
It’s not just Canberra. The states face a corona budget belting too
The coronavirus pandemic has drawn state government policies into the response to a national crisis like rarely before — a…
Drew Pavlou: “We know what we are doing. We learned from Tiananmen.”
The suspension of University of Queensland student, Drew Pavlou, was announced late last week following the decision of a disciplinary tribunal set up by the University’s…
