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Dumb and dumber
The venerable and much respected American columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer famously noted that to understand US politics you have…
No enthusiasm for enthusiastic consent reforms
Like most people watching the I am that girl story on Four Corners a few months ago I felt enormous sympathy for…
Going the full Kafka on free speech
It was Franz Kafka—the famous twentieth-century German writer—who once said, “Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of…
How Lauren Southern exposes a double standard
Activist reporter Lauren Southern who is currently touring Australia with popular alt-media philosopher Stefan Molyneux, was warned by police not…
The kids aren’t all left
Last week Elin Ersson, a 21-year-old Swedish student, halted the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker from Sweden by refusing…
Politicians can’t keep ignoring violence by women
When news headlines keep underlining a narrative to be false, we have a problem. When politicians are too afraid to…
Is Alan Joyce reprogramming your mind?
When I’m flying on one of those so-last-century planes that doesn’t have a screen mounted in the seat in front…
There’s still time to avoid Coalition carnage
If you want to know why the government is in deep trouble after Super Saturday, go no further than the…
The case against public sector affirmative action
Affirmative action is perhaps one of the more polarising phrases to enter our political lexicon in the last few years, which…
How’s that dissing the del-cons going?
So we’re now well into year three of the Team Turnbull Labor Lite experiment as Malcolm Turnbull – a big…
That’s a downer, guv’nor
Can social media damn your career when you’re already 66? It might just be so in the case of Alexander…
Turnbull’s time is up
The appalling Liberal Party performance in the five Super Saturday by-elections confirms what has long been obvious. This is that…
The only poll that matters stinks for the Turnbull Libs
The only poll that matters, we’re always told, is the one on election day. So we must regard yesterday’s ballots…
Conservatism in the age of Twitter
As a follow up to my earlier Spectator piece I thought it would be helpful to analyse the state of…
Gladys, do it for the dishlickers
When the New South Wales government backtracked on its plans to introduce a greyhound racing ban, most people were dismayed…
Government marketing a big buck bungle
Another week goes by and we again see state and federal governments squandering our money on embarrassing and harebrained ventures,…
Why our pissant political class can’t do populism properly
For political tragics, the western world has been a marvel over the past five years. A popular groundswell demanding self-determination…
Super Saturday: a tossers’ picnic
When it comes to elections, bookies are perhaps an even better form guide than the plethora of public and private…
The ABC threatens media diversity, not Fairfax/Nine
Yesterday Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment announced that they will merge, forming a media organisation worth $4.2 billion. The new…
The Gilead crusade?
Reverend Dr Michael Bird of Ridley College, Melbourne, is an accomplished author for The Spectator Australia as well as academically…
Oh my darling Clementine!
It seems to have been finalised rather quickly, but a deal has been struck that merges Nine and Fairfax. There…
Fairfax goes whinging to the grave, entirely lacking self-awareness
Yes, it’s sad. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age were great newspapers in their day. They did not just…
The last straw
Everyone seems to be banning the plastic non-fantastic these days in the newest example of the environmental theatre that makes the…
No hyphenation please, we’re Australian
Australia definitely benefits from learning from other societies and applying international best practices. But the grass is not always greener…
A Muslim, the alt-right – and Israel
Of course I was anxious about being a Muslim visiting Israel. My passport stated my birthplace as Bangladesh and there…
