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Three cheers for Jacinta!

20 April 2023 5:00 am

Three cheers for Jacinta! Her promotion is good for Dutton, good for the Coalition, and good for the country. The…

Alan Jones: Is the US losing global credibility? Here is the answer…

20 April 2023 4:00 am

You won’t read this on the front page or even hear it discussed; but, over the last few weeks, we…

Dominion over Fox

19 April 2023 11:54 am

The defamation action by Dominion (makers of voting machines in the US) over Fox News was settled today for US$787.5…

The Liberals must champion economic responsibility

19 April 2023 9:29 am

News last week that the Daniel Andrews-led Victorian Labor government is so desperate for cash they have approached his federal…

The real Liberal renewal needed to save Australia from identity politics

19 April 2023 6:00 am

The Liberal Party is at a low ebb, out of office across mainland Australia. Its vacillating, timid lack of self-confidence…

Who are you really listening to?

19 April 2023 5:00 am

For a while, I have kept relatively quiet about the goings-on of the Catholic Church. When I have written about…

Two cheers for democracy!?

19 April 2023 4:00 am

Two cheers for democracy! So wrote E.M. Forster speaking for the Bloomsbury set, the affluent intellectuals who were the leading ‘Wokes’ of…

AstraZeneca’s fall from grace

18 April 2023 9:00 am

I am not, nor have I ever been anti-vax, although I do have a few friends who are. I have…

All the way with the USA

18 April 2023 8:00 am

It is possible the Albanese government decided one national discussion was enough. Rationalising that Australians’ concerns over the Voice would…

Elon Musk: the keys to the cage

18 April 2023 6:00 am

Liberty is a wild animal: it cannot be domesticated, it refuses to be tamed, and it’ll die if you force…

Childish insults and bullying behaviour. Will the adults please enter the room?!

18 April 2023 4:00 am

When Prime Minister Albanese first released the government’s plan to introduce a referendum to amend the Constitution to include an…

Why central banks will struggle to conquer inflation

17 April 2023 12:00 pm

Interest rates could be higher for longer than people expect

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…