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On Passover, Israel, and the scourge of antisemitism

23 April 2024 12:37 pm

On behalf of the Australia-Israel Allies Caucus, I wish all who celebrate a happy and holy Pesach/Passover. Passover commemorates the…

Laughs, lies, and lights out

23 April 2024 3:00 am

Oh, the irony! Here I was reading our local Noosa newspaper last Saturday morning and laughing when the power started…

Australia fails to protect children from gender experiments

23 April 2024 2:30 am

The debate over so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for children has reached a crucial moment. This treatment approach, which often involves the…

Only official misinformation allowed

23 April 2024 2:00 am

Over the last four years, the Australian ruling classes have demonstrated an insatiable appetite for power and control over our…

Do you wish your country would become normal again?

23 April 2024 1:11 am

Would it be nice if universities suddenly became passively progressive again, instead of shamelessly revolutionary? Should national holidays return to…

Broken promises, broken budgets

22 April 2024 3:00 am

In December 2021, Anthony Albanese announced his ‘plan’ to reduce electricity prices by $275 per household by 2025. He said…

JK Rowling puts Wikipedia’s neutrality to the test

22 April 2024 2:30 am

Blurring the lines between up-to-date encyclopedic information and sensationalism

Misdiagnosed problems and misguided solutions

22 April 2024 2:00 am

Why economists must remain devoted to efficiency

Alexandra Marshall Live S2E9 with Pete Shmigel

22 April 2024 12:15 am

Propaganda, censorship, and the nations spending a fortune to undermine the West… Citizens are under attack domestically and from abroad.…

Women’s liberation stumbles backwards

21 April 2024 8:10 pm

I must start this off with an admission, I am a bloke – worse – an old bloke – even…

Mental health and restraint: the unsolved conundrum

21 April 2024 9:25 am

When is it appropriate to schedule someone into compulsory care when he or she is out of touch with reality?…

Outsourcing politics, killing democracy, fomenting revolution

21 April 2024 12:07 am

Robert Jenrick, in the London Daily Telegraph, fears that the inevitable Starmer government in the United Kingdom will enact a ‘second…

The assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador

19 April 2024 2:30 am

There is no doubt that the Ecuadorian assault on the Mexican Embassy in the capital Quito appears to be an…

I’m all in for Fallout

19 April 2024 2:00 am

It was only a matter of time until Amazon decided to throw its hat in the ring and join the…

Forced divestiture is better than expanding regulation

19 April 2024 1:00 am

‘Muddying the waters’ is one of the cleverer and more effective tools deployed by public relations advisers. The method involves…

The far-left takeover: working in childcare is a political act

18 April 2024 1:59 pm

Concerns are being raised about Australia’s new Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF 2.0). The Frankfurt school cultural Marxism – aka Critical Theory…

The land that time (but not the government) forgot

18 April 2024 3:00 am

Australia’s vaccine regulator, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), is still determinedly operating a virus theme park which…

Victorians have no idea

18 April 2024 2:00 am

When it comes to Indigenous matters, it seems Victorians and their Members of Parliament, have no idea what is happening…

Vale David Martin Jones

17 April 2024 6:25 pm

It is with the deepest sadness that I advise readers of The Spectator Australia of the tragic passing of David Martin…

A fight for the future of women’s rights

17 April 2024 10:26 am

I landed at Sydney airport last week at the exact time that Sall Grover was being cross examined in the…

Women need protection

16 April 2024 9:43 pm

In light of the violent tragedy that unfolded in Bondi, it is imperative that we look seriously at crime, opportunity,…

The Albanese government is our biggest national security threat

16 April 2024 8:58 pm

The bold display of Iranian military drones over the holy city of Jerusalem symbolises the weakness of the Albanese government.…

Over the cliff we go

16 April 2024 8:33 pm

George Orwell wrote 1984 and Animal Farm in 1949 and 1945 respectively, a time when the future – our present – seemed such…

A government of the bureaucrats, by the bureaucrats, and for the bureaucrats

15 April 2024 8:54 pm

When describing democracy, former American President Abraham Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address in 1863, said it was a ‘government…

Will the Lehrmann verdict end trial by media?

15 April 2024 7:29 pm

The Bruce Lehrmann-Brittany Higgins saga reached its conclusion this week with Federal Court Justice Michael Lee handing down his judgment…