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One-legged seagull: the cult of victimhood
There is a hardwood pier stretching out into the protected harbour where I live, styled to resemble a vintage port.…
Needle spiking haunts the land
I have recently read dozens of news reports on the peril of ‘spiking’ whereby young women are rendered near-unconscious by…
Enough! No more big government
It should come as no surprise that the globalists have enjoyed another Summit to discuss their agenda for world domination.…
Holding parents responsible for youth crime
Violent youth crime in this nation seems to be on the increase. Recent television footage of children running amok in…
A race-based tax is utterly unjust
Last month, former Victorian Greens (now Independent) Senator Lidia Thorpe, ‘reiterated the call for Australian property owners to pay a weekly…
Review of anti-discrimination laws puts religious educational institutions under threat
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recently released its consultation paper on the subject of Religious Education Institutions and…
Bourla-von der Leyen text message scandal: EU can’t function without corruption
Spectator Australia readers will recall the admission by Pfizer executive Janine Small that there was never any testing done to…
Blather, babble, blah – the death throes of ABC TV news
That ABC TV news is dying is not in dispute. The remaining question is whether to switch off life-support or…
Queensland’s youth crime crisis: cutting through Palaszczuk’s proposals
Crime doesn’t pay – unless you’re a recidivist youth offender living in Queensland. The fatal Boxing Day stabbing of Emma Lovell,…
Trucking billionaires
Federal Labor is set to bolster the businesses of trucking billionaires and corporations. Unsurprisingly, the billionaires are more than happy…
The poison of ersatz victimhood
In an interview about his excellent book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the eminent scholar Thomas Sowell underlined several peoples that…
QLD Police say shooting was an act of ‘Christian terrorism’
Queensland Police have said the December shooting that resulted in the deaths of two officers and an innocent neighbour was…
Diary of a cooker
We were in Hobart for the school holidays when I attended my first Freedom Rally on July 24, 2021. It…
Is coal making a comeback? Australian mining’s uphill battle
Coal supplies a quarter of the world’s energy, oil and gas account for a half, and renewables – in spite…
Looking back from 2035
Writing in 2035, it is easy to see what failed the Liberals in the 2020s. But it was not so…
Opinion: First Nations Voice Bill 2023
Could we risk increased racism as a result of the Voice legislation introduced to South Australian Parliament? Apparently these are…
Irreparably broken? The chaos continues with Indigenous politics
I recently wrote about our chaotic Federation. One of the three examples I cited was the confused management of ‘Indigenous…
The cope of self-love
On Valentine’s Day 2023, the number one hit on the pop charts was a song about a woman (Miley Cyrus)…
Tenants vs Landlords – a dystopian future?
As I travelled from Here-and-now to There-and-how along the Troublesome Track, I passed a new hospital on the outskirts of…
Colonial thieves…?
There’s no end to the Woke, cultural-left pushing ‘Yes’ to the Indigenous Voice in the nation’s classrooms. The left-leaning Australian…
On Labor’s Heraclitus: the fragments of socialism
There is no socialist solution to Australia's economy
The vilification of Margaret Court
The little-known American indie rock musician, Phoebe Bridgers, was performing at the Margaret Court arena in Melbourne recently when she…
The criminalisation of ordinariness
As Covid madness (or megalomaniacal plans, according to your worldview) took over our lives, various authorities and authoritarian tendencies in…
Coles clings to vaccine mandates
Coles is the only major supermarket in Australia that continues to employ discriminatory Covid vaccination mandates for workers. This is…
In the words of a great song: you’re the voice
I wanted to be an Aboriginal when I was a kid. I remember reading The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey…
