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Memo Canberra: stop your party games and get on with governing
A week is a long time in politics. Last week started with Bridget McKenzie becoming the Blockbuster Video of politics:…
How the rise of environmental politics is threatening traditional allegiances – and world trade
Some 172 years ago Karl Marx opened the modern era of politics in proclaiming that a spectre was haunting Europe.…
Adam Bandt loves Frozen? But what about the climate emergency?
Yes, folks. It’s true. Adam Bandt loves Frozen. Or Frozen II, to be precise. The Greens leader has done what…
How Oxfam’s propaganda starves the poor
Interesting musings from the economist Maarten Boudry on the topic of inequality, in a post titled “Is extreme wealth a…
A friendly word to the Never Trumpers
In an article sure to sort the sheep from the goats, Dr Michael L Brown (who is about to tour…
Ms Nina Funnell
On January 30 The Spectator Australia published an online opinion piece by Ms Bettina Arndt containing references to journalist Ms Nina Funnell.…
It’s time to give enterprise bargaining the boot
ACTU secretary Sally McManus believes Australia’s enterprise bargaining system is “broken”. While Jennifer Westacott, CEO of the Business Council of Australia…
The irrational faith of the Church of Climate Catastrophe
On Q&A on September 23 last year, Kerry O’Brien answered a question from an audience member about climate change. Speaking…
Wisdom at Railway Square
The incongruity made as much of an impact as the poster itself, on a wall along with a few other…
What’s woke this week?
Dinner parties, animal rights and newly defined crimes against Mother Nature top the list of woke stories this week. But…
Their ABC, biased? Nepotistic? Nah!
Richard Alston was minister for communications for around half the life of the Howard government. In that portfolio, he made…
The financial world is ignoring growth for greenwash
Despite global economic headwinds, international institutions — often with exclusively economic missions —are increasingly sliding their priorities out of whack.…
The fury of the left, explained
In a recent Spectator Australia article and subsequent interviews with Alan Jones and Graham Richardson, I summarised that ‘eucalypts are…
Barnaby Joyce won’t go away
As soon as the recent Nationals leadership spill confirmed that Michael McCormack would remain the leader of the party by…
The night I saw the real Adam Bandt
It was the autumn of 2013 and the Australian car industry was struggling under the weight of currency parity with…
Don’t focus on the focus groups
There is a way to win elections that has nothing to do with performance. I am reminded of this when…
The American left’s fill-tilt lunacy
The phrase “Liberalism is a mental disorder” can be dismissed as simply a conservative smear. But as the current election…
All you need to know about Adam Bandt in just three Tweets
What do you need to know about Adam Bandt? He’s a twit. A hard-left twit from the inner-city — such…
Mad Uncle Barnaby stays in the attic
Politics is the natural stage for egotists, narcissists and attention-seekers. So it was no surprise today to see Barnaby Joyce,…
They do it tough in Adam Bandt territory
Eight hundred and fifty dollars for a table? And all the proceeds go towards? Still nothing about where the proceeds…
Where’s that mojo, ScoMo?
Talk about testing times. In the lead up to the federal election last May, Scott Morrison made an artform of…
In Canberra tonight: WTFF?
Welcome to the most bizarre night in Australian politics since the well-refreshed Tasmanian Liberal Bruce Goodluck wandered into an evening…
Palestinian leaders prefer to keep their people suffering to peace. Again
So, the Arab League has rejected the latest United States Middle East Peace Plan. So, what’s new, I hear you…
For once, just once, Richard Di Natale has made the right decision
Richard Di Natale this morning announced his retirement from politics, and his reasons make me want to stand up and…
It’s not easy being Greens leader
To understand why Richard Di Natale is stepping down as Greens leader, you have to appreciate two things. The first…
