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Why Menzies still matters

21 June 2023 4:30 am

Matthew Bach’s piece Menzies is dead. It’s time for the Liberals to forge a new path in The Age on June…

The West’s child exploitation scandal: groomers and abusers

21 June 2023 4:00 am

One Nation is referring the Classification Board to a Senate inquiry regarding the creep of inappropriate content that has made…

The world’s next China will be … China. What will Australia be?

20 June 2023 6:00 am

Are we really going to be the lucky country forever? Or are we actually the stupid self-indulgent teenage brat of…

The courage to ‘speak the truth’

20 June 2023 5:00 am

A recent Spectator Australia article by Victorian Liberal MP Beverley McArthur, in which she criticised Geelong Council’s decision to cancel Australia…

Labor and the LNP wage war on women and girls

20 June 2023 4:00 am

The war on girls and women intensified last week with the Palaszczuk Labor government becoming the latest state to pass gender…

Spectator TV Australia: the separation of powers and the Voice

19 June 2023 9:43 pm

From the IPA, Scott Hargreaves identifies an important legal issue of where the Voice sits on the separation of powers.…

Double Shot Ep7: David Flint on Moscow, Beijing, and US Foreign Policy

19 June 2023 9:09 pm

Special guest Paul Batten speaks in praise of hedge fund billionaire, philanthropist, and virtual mentor to millions Ray Dalio, saying…

Howl at the Moon indeed

19 June 2023 11:30 am

I followed the fortunes of what used to be known as the Melbourne Festival until it was struck off the…

World Bank woes

19 June 2023 6:00 am

The World Bank has a great cosmopolitan air to its name – not like one of those parochial institutions like…

Children behaving badly

19 June 2023 5:30 am

Something is going seriously wrong with our children. Standards are declining in education; manners and respect are forgotten; ignorance, expectation,…

Are health regulators turning a blind eye to puberty blockers?

19 June 2023 5:00 am

With a never-ending increase in red tape across the healthcare industry, you might be surprised to learn that ‘gender-affirming care’…

Time and tithe: the Climate Cult’s expensive virtue

19 June 2023 4:00 am

Virtue has always been for sale. The oldest fragments of human civilisation contain tributes left for the gods in a…

The Bowen Basin coal pioneers – Collinsville, Thiess, and Utah

18 June 2023 5:00 am

When they erect a huge monument to the coal pioneers of the Bowen Basin, three groups must be prominent: The…

New Zealand: are bilingual road signs safe?

18 June 2023 3:43 am

At a time when the dilapidated state of New Zealand’s roads are a major public concern and the government has…

More than PR clichés

17 June 2023 5:00 am

After an individual at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia allegedly breached confidentiality agreements and disclosed upcoming government tax policy to colleagues and…

Female trauma and political capital

17 June 2023 4:30 am

The case of Brittany Higgins has brought me into a number of conversations about the way the criminal justice system…

Alan Jones: Albanese in a mess

17 June 2023 4:00 am

There is no doubt that in politics, worldwide, the Left are in the ascendant; but they enjoy undeserving support from…

Misinformation, disinformation, and cloudy thinking

16 June 2023 12:46 pm

I have a friend, well educated and aware of current affairs, but I always seem to have some sort of…

Always Sunny: going where others wouldn’t dare

16 June 2023 6:00 am

Few would believe me If I said that a show about a group of politically incorrect, sociopathic, and narcissistic alcoholics…

Amazon shuts down smart home after hate speech allegation

16 June 2023 5:00 am

News of Amazon allegedly locking out a smart home user over hate speech allegations is raising questions about technocratic overreach.…

Education, education, education

16 June 2023 4:00 am

It is indubitable that a good education leads to a better life for those who are fortunate enough to receive…

In need of a tree?

15 June 2023 5:00 am

As traumatic accounts of families struggling to pay their mortgages or rent fill our newspapers and TV screens, spare a…

Save the planet … sacrifice a child?!

15 June 2023 4:30 am

In my previous article, I expressed the view that modern environmentalism resembles a pantheistic religion in that it contains a…

21st century snake oil

15 June 2023 4:00 am

Big Pharma may appear to be the zenith of craven greed and duplicity with their billions made off vaccines they…

The un-United Nations

14 June 2023 6:00 am

The role of the United Nations in the modern world has fallen into disrepute; the recent elevation of Russia as…