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How smarter tax cuts will boost the budget
Treasury’s flawed tax model has led to the government’s structural reforms being estimated to cost much more than they actually…
It’s all happening with Extinction Rebellion
The SpecOz, natch, is on the Extinction Rebellion mailing list — so we couldn’t help but notice this highlight from…
Does Mark Zuckerberg really want to preserve free speech?
The line between inciting hate or violence and informing others about that hate and violence is being blurred. Facebook’s recent…
Turkey, Syria and the Kurds: this is not just Donald Trump’s evil
While most fixate on the betrayal in Trump’s decision to withdraw troops and leave the Kurds to the mercy of…
Why are Australian films now so unpopular?
Australian films are less popular today than they were decades ago. Consider the following statistics from recent Australian film history.…
Don’t even think that. It’s ray-shist
When people say that members of other races all look the same to them, are they just being lazily racist or…
Where’s the campaign for our right to free speech and against 18c, not just ‘our right to know’?
Just two months, The Spectator published my explanation of the distinction between the right to know and the right to…
This is bullying with help from a professional media manipulator, not news
Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, “compassion is the basis of morality.” Perhaps the Australian blue-tick warriors could learn something from…
Two years of #MeToo disaster
It began in a whirlwind of fury in October 2017. Blazing flames burst from the mouths of feminists insisting powerful…
EXCLUSIVE: The Brumbies’ former chaplain tells how Raelene Castle’s letter should have read
Following Raelene Castle’s letter to Wallabies fans yesterday, where she failed to show any appreciation to the Australian side, this…
How Boris can beat the remoaners (and wipe the smile off Bercow’s face)
Brexit is an unholy mess for Boris but if he were to take advice from downstairs, or Down Under, he…
Sorry to sound like some kind of weirdo, but I believe in the sensible centre
Recently I made a startling discovery. Somewhere in the middle on most policy issues, I’m also firmly committed to values…
Kristina Keneally: the new Senator Sea Patrol?
When Green Sarah Hanson-Young seemed to suggest she thought Sea Patrol was real, many of us thought we had achieved…
It’s not Churchill you should follow, Boris, but Washington
Well, Boris flopped. Last night, the House of Commons was manoeuvred by a Remainer MP to delay consideration of his…
If Trump says two plus two equals four, it must be wrong (and evil, too)
Blind hatred makes people irrational. When you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, you are likely to take the opposite view…
Boris, this is Brexit in name only
The Bow Group has been described by the veteran Eurosceptic Sir Bill Cash MP as “where Brexit began”. It is…
Extinction Rebellion and all the latest rage in cataclysm
Hypocrite: One who falsely professes to be virtuously or religiously inclined; one who pretends to be other and better than…
A counsellor writes to the Family Court inquiry
My name is Rob Tiller and I worked as a domestic violence counsellor at Anglicare WA for three years and…
What’s woke this week?
Wokedemia strikes again this week, along with giving new meaning to the term fairy godmother, and a few other cameo…
If you want to boost our flagging economy, remember not all fiscal stimulus is created equal
The International Monetary Fund has forecasted a sharp decrease in Australia’s economic growth over the next year. The estimate predicts…
Tackle the drought or a hard rain’s gonna fall
I’m a country kid. I grew up on a broadacre farm 360 kilometres south-east of Perth, in a little town…
You want evidence, not special interest group, based policy?
All too often the information spreading across social media and into reporting misleads users and is inaccurate or all-around fake.…
Love in a Cold War climate
Much indignation and acres of news space has been given over to excoriating the American decision – President Trump’s decision,…
Ten reasons why climate catastrophists need to cool down
If we are to believe the hype, then human civilisation as we know it is on the brink of extinction.…
Scrap the family law inquiry, Greens? Hell no!
On Monday, Larissa Waters moved a motion calling for the abandonment of the Family Law Inquiry. She posted on her…
