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Essington Lewis: I am Woke
Legend has it that at the financial end of Collins Street where all the smart people go to beg there…
L L BoJo
The fact that Boris Johnson is a seriously flawed scallywag is part of his charm. Like the rugged womanisers of…
The public service are about to be told: pull your weight
The unexpected May 18 election results sent a chill through the ranks of Canberra’s public service class. Now, the Secretary…
Why a treaty is no answer
Australia, as with so many other Commonwealth nations settled by colonial force, has a difficult relationship with its Indigenous peoples.…
No knockout left hook from Mueller
The question I hurled several times at my TV during the six-hour-long Mueller hearing at the House Judiciary Committee yesterday…
No, school choice does not cause ‘segregation’
The mental gymnastics displayed by some people in order to blame freedom of school choice for Australia’s education woes never…
Trump or The Squad: who’s doing harm?
The most insightful and quotable commentary I heard last week was made by Greg Gutfeld of Fox News. If you…
If there’s just one thing you need to read on climate science…
This could be it. None of the contents are new or original, but in this longer-than-an-average opinion piece, Bjorn Lomborg distils all…
By the light of the moon
The moon has been headline news for days. This is a strange phenomenon for our demur neighbour, whose nightly changes…
2018 Thawley Essay Prize winners
It is with great delight that we announce the winner and the runner-up of the 2018 Spectator Australia Thawley Essay…
A great crime, Their ABC-style
No. An old-age pension couple who can no longer afford electricity didn’t burn coal in an attempt to stay warm.…
Do Facebook, Google and Twitter censor conservatives?
‘Big tech’ plays a huge and ever-expanding role in our lives. Without a thought, we now trust platforms like Facebook,…
With woke corporates we soon won’t need elections
Non Cis-Gendered Individual Number One of the Canberra Cadre writes: Talk about ‘useful idiots’! CBD and his/her/zi GULAG fellow travellers…
About those person holes…
You would have read of another triumph of human progress from the city that has been a pioneer for so…
It’s not just Huawei…
Australian politicians have recently started pandering to their Chinese constituents by embracing one of the largest social media platforms in…
Is there a Trump smear the left won’t stoop to?
Last week, the Channel Nine tabloids ran a column: Trump and Epstein partied and commented on women in 1992 video.…
Scripture sniping as The SMAge spouts the Good Book to foul Folau
John Tait has written an article for the Channel Nine tabloids, designed to bring clarity to the question Israel Folau…
It mightn’t be sexy, but manufacturing got us to the moon
Almost forty years ago, in fact, during the time of the Hawke Labor government, Australia fell for a pea and…
Meet 007’s most fearsome enemy: a politically correct lack of imagination
The meh news of the week: Since Daniel Craig announced he was standing down as James Bond, debate has raged…
A religious freedom commissioner: not just worse than doing nothing, but the wrong thing
Attorney-General Christian Porter intends to put the proposed religious discrimination bill to Parliament in the near future. Unveiling the government’s…
To save Western Civilisation, turn right
C S Lewis once observed that when you are going in the wrong direction, the thing to do is go…
How is it fair that unions pay no income tax?
The ACTU continually complain that business, including small business, don’t pay their fair share of income tax. The complaints often…
Forget when Belle Gibson will get jail. When will her victims get justice?
When the Belle Gibson trial hit the news again recently all I was able to do was ‘watch on’ as…
Have Their ABC declared Bob Brown an unperson for heresy against the great green goddess Gaia?
‘Unperson’. You know the word. George Orwell coined it for Nineteen Eighty-Four, as being someone erased from society, the past,…
An end to parliamentary rorts in one easy step
This week, Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon passionately defended the $46,000 electoral allowance which he, like other MPs, receives from taxpayers…
