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The Liberals need to thrash-out their energy policy with a debate

17 April 2023 8:00 am

Defeat in the Aston by-election in Melbourne this month was a bitter blow for the Liberals. Victorian party leader, John…

My transgression confession

17 April 2023 7:00 am

Moira Deeming, I have a confession to make… I crossed the line. You might not like what I did, but…

Australia, not Britain, leads the Commonwealth

17 April 2023 4:00 am

Britain has a long and storied tradition of palming unwanted things off to Australia. Aside the obvious example, the Territory of…

We are all a black-box pool to the government

16 April 2023 1:08 pm

In the world of Business Analysis there is a discipline called Process Modelling. Its output would be familiar to most…

‘No compromise!’ Marxist solidarity in 2023

16 April 2023 7:15 am

This is a follow-up article to my Spectator Australia report last week on Marxism Conference 2023, the Australian Marxists’ three-day Easter shindig at…

The April Fools’ Day joke that wasn’t a joke

16 April 2023 7:00 am

In what some experts are calling ‘the lowest point in the history of the United Nations’, the Russian Federation assumed the…

Men’s spaces were colonised by feminists first

16 April 2023 6:00 am

There has been a good deal of talk lately about women’s spaces being invaded by biologically male persons identifying as…

Another anti-Woke film races ahead in the box office

15 April 2023 4:29 pm

Like kicking water up a hill or punching smoke, writing about the culture wars is often tedious and tiring. But…

Saving South Africa – and the West – from the CRT boomerang

15 April 2023 1:25 pm

South Africa looms large in the Western imagination. Not only as a country of strategic importance due to the commodities…

A voice of emotion, not reason – of judgment, not mercy

15 April 2023 5:00 am

We humans have always been emotional. It is part of who we are as self-conscious beings. But the use of…

Alan Jones: Reflections on Easter

15 April 2023 4:00 am

Easter has come and gone, but the need for reflection will never pass. In an increasingly materialistic world, it does…

Should we re-brand conservatism to ‘Freedom of Enterprise’?

14 April 2023 7:00 am

It is both the name and the delivery of ‘Conservative Politics’ that is losing the votes and voters. As I…

The Voice: do not, under any circumstances, explain anything

14 April 2023 6:00 am

The marketing strategy for The Voice to Parliament ‘Yes’ campaign can be written in one sentence: do not, under any…

Are mobile phones our salvation or damnation?

14 April 2023 5:00 am

The insidious spread of misinformation has revealed the dark side of communication; our increasing addiction to our devices puts us…

We are all Indigenous somewhere 

14 April 2023 4:00 am

The Voice is an anathema to a nation that believes in equality – a nation that does not look to…

Elon Musk vs The BBC

13 April 2023 2:05 pm

James Clayton’s recent interview of Elon Musk is a peek behind the media curtain. And it makes for a gasp-out-loud,…

Alan Jones: Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto should be sacked and this is why

13 April 2023 6:00 am

Let me be blunt. The Victorian Liberal Party leader, John Pesutto, should be sacked. The following story proves it. With…

The merchants of gender activism

13 April 2023 5:00 am

Nietzsche wrote in his notebooks, reflecting on the decay of civilisation that his acute senses have registered, that, ‘We are…

South Africa: the forgotten nation

13 April 2023 4:00 am

Vladimir Putin’s ongoing brutal war against Ukraine. The Chinese Communist Party’s continued aggression in our region. An upsurge in violence…

The religion of gender

12 April 2023 8:00 am

I don’t know about you, but the days following the Let Women Speak riot in Auckland have changed my life.…

Australia’s ‘green energy’ chimera

12 April 2023 7:00 am

The government has asked the Joint Committee on Trade and Investment Growth to inquire into ‘Australia’s transition to a green…

Staying the Liberal course: with wall-to-wall red, blue politics is on the ropes

12 April 2023 4:00 am

It’s not difficult to determine that the Liberal Party appears in trouble. With wall-to-wall red states minus Tasmania, a popular…

The Deeming saga

12 April 2023 3:00 am

Menzies would have known what to do

The People vs. Big Australia: Albo’s housing crisis

11 April 2023 7:00 am

Do you recall Labor’s announcement during the 2022 election that it was going to increase immigration to record high levels?…

Restoring trust in public health

11 April 2023 6:00 am

‘Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.’ –…