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Fixing potholes is a policy we can all agree on

30 October 2023 4:30 am

On my way to the local tip, my car lurched as I backed out over the naturally occurring drain that…

Do Covid vaccines meet the definition of gene therapy?

30 October 2023 4:00 am

Serious questions are being asked of Australia’s Office of the Gene Technology Regulator

The Bowen delusion

30 October 2023 3:00 am

Both the ALP and the Coalition, ostensibly as a means to reduce national emissions of CO2, espouse wind and solar…

I’m not going anywhere

29 October 2023 2:28 pm

The other day I found myself in a defiant mood. It’s not my default position, these days. Most often, I…

SARS: a warning about tyrannical health bureaucracies

29 October 2023 12:27 pm

I was reading through Jeremy Clarkson’s The World According to Clarkson – a collection of his Sunday Times columns from way back…

Coastal wind farms: this Sunday, the people say ‘no’ again

29 October 2023 12:00 am

When the first coastal wind farms were announced by Energy Minister Chris Bowen, I thought I was dreaming. Australia has…

The Loophole Bill: 1.2 million self-employed Australians at risk

28 October 2023 3:18 pm

My recent Spectator Australia article, Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia, gave an overview of the Albanese government’s Industrial Relations Bill, also…

Australian Catholic Bishops and the referendum

28 October 2023 12:10 pm

In the last few days of the referendum campaign, I was struck by something Warren Mundine said. It went along…

Conflict in Palestine … again – where do you stand?

28 October 2023 2:13 am

As a nation, why is a minority, including some of our elected representatives, condoning pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel rallies? Most Australians are not…

Energising the Liberals

27 October 2023 4:00 am

The Liberal Party’s energy policies lack clarity, making them ill-suited to take to the next federal election (due by mid-2025).…

Occupation justifies murder…?

27 October 2023 12:47 am

Dominating the news headlines this week on the Israel-Hamas war have been the calls for a ceasefire and for humanitarian…

Ukraine’s draft church ban: breach of religious freedom?

26 October 2023 10:54 pm

The Ukrainian parliament’s cautious nod of approval for bill 8371 banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) breaches religious freedom. Approval was tentatively…

Parliament votes for more fatherless children

26 October 2023 3:28 pm

October 19 was a dark day in Australia’s social history after our Parliament voted for more fatherless children… Labor’s draconian…

Albo gives EV drivers a free ride

26 October 2023 12:14 am

It is no secret that federal fuel excise revenues have been in decline for years, and something needs to be…

Immigration and the fires of separatism

25 October 2023 11:00 pm

We have seen abhorrent scenes in my home state of New South Wales. It has been thoroughly disappointing, but sadly,…

Refusing to label terror in the name of ‘neutrality’

25 October 2023 4:30 am

No one has ever accused me of being an over-zealous defender of Joe Biden. Not that anyone would have been…

Digital trust on trial

25 October 2023 4:00 am

Banking on your biometrics. The controversy surrounding corporate-dictated digital identification

Fight them on the speeches! Why the FSU is needed in Australia

25 October 2023 1:52 am

There is a view that is common amongst the sceptics of cancel culture, that it is merely a battle between elites and…

It is still called genocide

24 October 2023 2:57 pm

Trick question 1: What is the main difference between the Nazis and Hamas terrorists? Answer: Gas chambers. Trick question 2: What is…

Is multiculturalism failing?

24 October 2023 1:41 pm

In March 2022, Declan Cutler, a working-class 16-year-old, died after being stabbed over 50 times by a ‘gang of teenagers’ in…

Chasing idiocy: how subsidies power our energy price hikes

24 October 2023 4:30 am

If we looked at the picture for Australia in the mid-90s, the electricity industry was massively overstaffed and the gas…

Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia

24 October 2023 4:00 am

With the Voice Referendum ‘done’, it’s now both possible and necessary to recognise and understand the broader ‘revolutionary’ agenda that…

A tinderbox of incompetence

24 October 2023 3:00 am

For a decade, the Victorian government-owned forestry controller VicForests has been a tinderbox of incompetence looking for a match. Gifted…

We have a big problem

23 October 2023 4:00 am

The tantrum of the ‘Yes’ campaign and its supporters following their referendum loss is symptomatic of a class of people…

Crisis of soul: moral relativism and the modern university

23 October 2023 3:30 am

Alan Bloom, perhaps modern education’s greatest post-war critic, wrote presciently on Western elites’ decaying moral and intellectual fibre. Bloom’s 1987…