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On the upside, Prime Minister…
Yesterday’s Newspoll wasn’t exactly the best of news for the Prime Minister, but it shouldn’t have come as any surprise.…
South African cricket: from racist to rainbow nation and back again
The obsession with race in South Africa has clearly not ended with the demise of National Party rule in 1994.…
New welfare model, old welfare results
Social Services Minister Christian Porter has announced that the government intends to introduce a New Zealand style approach to welfare.…
The trumpet blasts of the monstrous regiment
On the weekend I was on an ABC Radio National panel discussion about major topical events of the week. The return…
Marriage equality: the left wants Turnbull to be a dictator
The left-wing admiration for Malcolm Turnbull, with his PC-opinions and hip leather jacket during his wilderness years of 2010-2015, was…
And in further news from the inner-city…
Looking for a little culture this weekend? Here’s something: Hilariously though even this sort of stuff comes completes with a…
RIP Reading Recovery
Thanks to NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli, the deeply entrenched, multi-million dollar Reading Recovery program will no longer be sacrosanct…
A lack of accountability is the biggest issue in Indigenous affairs
For too long governments have convinced themselves they are contributing to better Indigenous outcomes simply because they are spending money…
And in news just in from the inner-city…
From the latest e-mail missive from Melbourne Farmers Markets: Keep your veggies and leftovers fresh with BeeKeep. Beeswax coated cloth provides…
Muslim immigration: we are all very guilty, very guilty indeed
So, we now know why Essential Research has found that 49 per cent of the people it polled support a…
Hinch’s s*** on the liver
Revelations reported yesterday about Human Headline turned crucial Senate vote Derryn Hinch’s fondness for a tipple caused a bit of…
Why Donald Trump is Reagan’s heir
For the first time in more than 25 years the Republican Party has a legitimate heir to the blue collar…
Unleash Aboriginal business potential
The August 2016 decision of the Federal Court to award $3.3 million under the Native Title Act to traditional owners…
Further Syrian notes
My article in this week’s Speccie took a look at important developments in the Syrian civil war: the US-led coalition’s decision to put regime…
A sugar tax: insanity is catching
Here we go again. The UK Government unveiled its plans for a sugar tax in March this year. Closer to…
John Howard prompts a go slow at the Spencer Street Soviet
“When John Howard took to the stage at the National Press Club some days ago …” The Age’s editorial begins…
Cause offence? Go directly to jail
Bertrand Russell said, “Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will…
The dangers of underestimating coal
According to research commissioned by The Australia Institute if we ban all new coalmines, allowing coal production to fall from…
Stephen Conroy: the last of the Mohicans
Writing the first draft of history, as journalists and columnists are conceited enough to imagine that we do, is a…
Journos for censorship: the curious, confused Age
About the same time as I was finalising the leading article for last week’s Spectator Australia, a boffin at the Age was doing a…
Bans on political donations threaten our democracy
Imagine for a moment that you’re the managing director of a mining company. You have a project that has met…
Kevin Andrews and the challenges for Australian conservatism after Hanson
Constructing a viable conservative governing coalition with a coherent plan of action for the problems of today is fundamentally complicated…
The Ides of Malcolm
So here we are, marking the Ides of Malcolm. One year ago today Malcolm Turnbull reached for his dagger and…
WA Labor’s uranium ban sells the state short
According to WA Labor’s Plan for Jobs, ‘a McGowan Labor Government will free business from the burden of poor regulations’.…
Same-sex marriage? A plebiscite? Old hat!
A plebiscite? Yawn. Here’s a far more exciting dispatch from the frontlines of the War on Marriage. Polygamists are on…
