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Gladys and Alex: eugenics hip new friends

23 August 2019 3:58 pm

Many people are rightly outraged at just how extreme Alex Greenwich’s “Reproductive Rights Bill” is, which will soon be before…

What’s woke this week

23 August 2019 1:45 pm

When I first began writing this column I used to worry that there might be some weeks that wouldn’t provide…

How to reindustrialise Australia

23 August 2019 11:02 am

This week we heard that that Australian steel producer BlueScope will invest $1 billion in an Ohio-based American steel plant, citing…

Why the Ramsay Centre is a good bet for UQ — and Australia

23 August 2019 5:00 am

After a controversial multi-month negotiation, Ramsay Centre CEO Simon Haines and University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Peter Høj have signed off…

School choice should mean more than a public-private pick

22 August 2019 7:30 pm

The Australian Scholarships Group (ASG)’s flagship annual publication — the Parents Report Card — dishes up some choice findings about…

Here come the new eco-fascists

22 August 2019 10:59 am

“The Washington Post” beat me taking a closer look at the Christchurch, NZ, and El Paso, Texas, terrorist attacks carried…

Let’s fight poverty. Let’s abolish the minimum wage

22 August 2019 5:00 am

In the months since the election, not only have we seen a new appetite for industrial relations reform but things…

The Pell appeal: why good process makes us a better society

21 August 2019 5:35 pm

In the interests of disclosure, I am Catholic. That said, you only need a two-minute conversation with my mum to…

Clementine Ford the arbiter of language? F**k off!

21 August 2019 2:57 pm

If hateful hard left exhibitionist extremist Clementine Ford is now the gatekeeper of language, we are all fucked. I would…

China’s young nationalists – no holds barred and on our streets

21 August 2019 10:14 am

Last Friday I turned up to the “Stand with Hong Kong — Power to the People” Rally at the State Library of…

Free speech first, then the right to know

21 August 2019 5:00 am

As most Speccie readers would know, I stand unashamedly for free speech; even speech that might offend or insult. Speech…

New South Wales’ looming Liberal leadership crisis

20 August 2019 7:06 pm

Just weeks away from what’s sure to be a roiling Liberal state council meeting, the realisation is dawning that Gladys…

Sex and the Sydney stabbing: preach PC, print prurience

20 August 2019 3:59 pm

The good-girl-gone-bad narrative peddled by the Australian media following the stabbing murder of Sydney sex-worker Michaela Dunn last week —…

As China is shows its true colours, how should we respond?

20 August 2019 1:02 pm

Given the recent news regarding the arrests of Canadian, Australian, UK and US citizens in China — as retaliation toward…

Will the Morrison government axe compulsory student fees?

20 August 2019 4:00 am

For far too long, left-wing student unions have shown a cavalier disregard for the interests of mainstream students on campus.…

Want to give her a better chance at life? Support free market solutions

19 August 2019 6:08 pm

In 1981 42 per cent of the world lived in extreme poverty earning less than $700 USD per year. Today…

The horseman of the Australian stock market apocalypse

19 August 2019 4:41 pm

It’s the question that puzzles pundits and experts alike, with billion-dollar hedge funds, mum and dad investors and everyone between…

Public servants who serve? Ministers who lead? Very courageous, Prime Minister

19 August 2019 1:06 pm

In 1980 when Laurie Oakes, was leaked the Budget papers in the Treasury car park and revealed his trove on…

Put a sock in it, whingers

19 August 2019 4:00 am

We are in trouble. But, it seems, everyone is too scared to speak up. Conservative broadcaster Alan Jones apologised to…

Lies, leeches and Chinese whispers: one not so enchanted summit

18 August 2019 5:39 pm

What was that Malcolm Turnbull once said about “the prime minister who broke the nation’s heart”? Whatever the case, he…

Je suis Fredo

18 August 2019 1:49 pm

I have pondered for some time why President Trump is so disliked by all the mainstream media. I am using…

If Raheem Kassam should be banned from Australia, what about that thug George O’Dowd?

17 August 2019 5:13 pm

According to grandstanding Senator Kristina Keneally, commentator Raheem Kassam should have been banned from entry to Australia. Kassam, who offhandedly…

Nightmare feminism

16 August 2019 6:35 pm

#MeToo is like a malignant cancer that multiplies and spreads. It attacks the white blood cells. It attacks the immune…

It’s gender inequality – but not like you’ve seen it

16 August 2019 2:19 pm

A team of researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of Essex have produced a new way of measuring…

What the world can learn from Australia’s immigration policy

16 August 2019 10:00 am

It’s often said that it does not matter if you are a slow learner, so long as you are able…