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Dear Dr Bandt, if countries don’t buy our coal it doesn’t mean they’ll become carbon free
In the absence of Australian consumers having any actual influence on historical global climate variations, Greens MP for Melbourne Adam…
Climate cranks turn up the heat
Climate hysteria is increasing in intensity at the rate that alarmists claim extreme weather events are increasing thanks to burning…
Care about China’s Uighurs? You must be a white racist cultural imperialist
China is very touchy today about criticism of its inhumane rights regime, but who else managed to miss this truly…
Water crisis? What water crisis?
Australia may be the “land of drought and flooding rains”, but that is no excuse to mismanage abundance and utilise…
Impeachment inflames Trump Derangement Syndrome
After the media’s coverage of the August El Paso mass shootings and as the impeachment process unfolds, it is becoming…
The left’s ‘tyranny of tolerance’ means we need religious freedom laws
As Attorney-General Christian Porter aims to bring his Religious Discrimination Bill before Parliament in the first week of December, critics…
First Tibet. Then Xinjiang. Next Hong Kong?
Recent reporting of a 400-page leak from within the Chinese Communist Party — dubbed The Xinjiang Papers — confirms previous accounts of the…
The other extinction rebellion: against the extinction of real learning in our schools
The(ir) ABC appear shocked to find that conservatives in Australia are pushing back against leftism in the classroom. “One Nation…
Will two tigers clash over Sri Lanka – India and China?
Elections in the subcontinent often have a ‘nothing to see here’ feeling, mainly because, through a heritage of colonial rule,…
Why the left’s beef about the Reef?
We live in an era when it is politically incorrect to say the Great Barrier Reef is doing fine, except…
Nobody is above the law in the United States – except a million or so illegal immigrants
Watching the Democrats haul their impeachment caravan across Washington these past days I was struck by the punctuation marks in…
Dear XYs, we love you
I bloody love men. I love almost everything about them: the banter, the directness, the chivalry and the everyday interactions…
Memo MPs: how have you forgotten 60,000 years of bushfire prevention?
The current weather and wildfire situation is neither unprecedented nor unexpected. These latest holocausts are a direct consequence of the…
Christian Porter: no more free speech, thank you very much
Despite all the arguments made and support garnered for a constitutional amendment that would guarantee our freedom of speech and…
What’s woke this week?
Non-binary wokeworld is at the top of our list this week with gender-inclusive gingerbreads out and proud. In other woke…
Fight for the Bight has jumped the shark
The Great Australian Bight has been the focus for two environmental campaigns this week. Typically for such campaigns, each seems…
We cannot let anti-Semitism spread here
We are facing a growing threat of left-wing anti-Semitism that we must not allow to fester and infect Australia. Anti-Semitism…
Hong Kong is fighting for its very soul, Extinction Rebellion are throwing tantrums
As tensions rise in Hong Kong and the protests become ever more violent, some have begun wavering in their support…
Fire up your writing engine – and win five grand
Theme: ‘…or forever hold your peace’. It is with great delight that we announce the sixth annual Spectator Australia Thawley…
Why men need to start being men again
“Australia’s ‘man drought’ is real — especially if you’re a Christian woman looking for love” was the attention-grabbing ABC headline…
The Beige Barrier Reef?
A key claim in a January 2016 article in the scientific journal, Nature, is that there are no longer any living colonies of Acropora…
Andrew Hastie and James Paterson are safe on our soil, but where are Liu Hu and Dong Rubin?
Senator James Paterson and West Australian Liberal Andrew Hastie have stoutly and correctly refused to ‘repent’ as requested by the…
EXCLUSIVE: To see the true state of the economy, just visit ScoMo’s electorate office
In recent months growth in the Australian retail sector has slowed to a crawl, as shop owners struggle with the…
Beijing Bob bangs the wrong drum?
On Monday, ABC’s panel programme The Drum discussed Australia’s complicated relationship with China, and the Chinese Communist Party’s government decision…
The aged care outrage: if we can extend life, we must do it with dignity
Even before the royal commission, no one in Australia wanted to go into aged care. And little wonder. The interim…
