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A republic by stealth: why the King belongs on the $5 banknote

30 November 2022 7:00 am

Do Australians know who is on their banknotes? How many of us, if asked randomly on the street, would be…

The Shinkansen to Hiroshima: a Covid-Haunted world

30 November 2022 4:00 am

When Michael Jackson famously started wearing face masks, many took it as evidence that the great man had succumbed to…

Albo’s big night out

29 November 2022 11:00 am

Not even Menzies looked this good in a penguin suit, Anthony Albanese thought to himself as he stood before the…

We need more male authors

29 November 2022 10:00 am

Just as there are certain social and developmental proclivities that distinguish men and women generally, there are some subtle differences…

Power for power’s sake

29 November 2022 8:00 am

Unlike the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who wrote that the East German government – unhappy with the election result –…

Local government needs to wake up from Woke

29 November 2022 7:00 am

The increasingly pervasive Woke activist agenda has escaped its confines in university and academia, and hit the mainstream. We have…

Hakuna Matata? Sacked for being white

29 November 2022 6:00 am

A sign-language interpreter performing in a Broadway production of The Lion King has allegedly been fired for being white. Keith Wann, 53,…

Yes, Australia has a problem with live birth data

29 November 2022 4:00 am

The fact-checkers at the ABC jumped to the government’s rescue when I asked a few pointed questions about the reported decline in birth rates…

Dan enters the pantheon of ‘great’ leaders

28 November 2022 12:00 pm

Now the hurley burley’s done, and Dan Andrews is in the pantheon of the state’s great leaders, it’s time to…

Govern me harder, Daddy

28 November 2022 11:00 am

The outcome of the Victorian election can perhaps be explained in one sentence: it’s better to believe the fairy tale…

Dying on their knees

28 November 2022 9:00 am

Remember these two analogies. First one. At the start of the pandemic hysteria in Florida, the uncritical press had petrified…

Gender quotas are never the solution

28 November 2022 8:00 am

‘To be judged on the content of our character and not the colour of our skin’ – that was one of…

The Victorian Liberals are totally…

28 November 2022 5:00 am

Didn’t I tell you three months ago? If the Liberal party around Australia is buggered, in Victoria, it is totally…

Victoria: the trauma bond is real

28 November 2022 4:00 am

On Saturday night, I was sitting in an auditorium with about 13,000 other fellow ‘cookers’*. We were in attendance listening…

Pull up! Pull up!

27 November 2022 7:00 am

The test pilot was the fourth to try and figure out why the new plane kept crashing. The previous three…

Fan-baiting: the toxic culture of Hollywood progressives

27 November 2022 4:00 am

Bros is a gay romcom written by and starring Billy Eichner. The critics, we are told, love it. If you…

The Leftism I used to know

26 November 2022 3:08 pm

I need to confess my deepest, darkest secret. Back when I was a political amateur, not knowing any better, I…

Woolworths: let’s go Bradford!

26 November 2022 12:58 pm

I was heartened to hear of Woolworths volte-face concerning its despicable vaccine mandate policy. Nevertheless, despite the passage of time…

Keep your vote out of the swamp. Victorians, read this before Saturday!

25 November 2022 7:57 pm

There’s a party running in the Victorian Election tomorrow that goes by the name of ‘Sack Dan Andrews – Restore…

Lacking a spine? Vic Libs and the Renee Heath controversy

25 November 2022 4:18 pm

The state of Victoria has served up yet another watershed moment in the decline of freedom of association. Back in…

The permanent revolution or a conservative renaissance?

25 November 2022 1:30 pm

Whatever the result of this Saturday’s Victorian election, one thing is for sure: there will be no conservative renaissance south…

Ignore the French, the next war requires nuclear subs

25 November 2022 10:00 am

Do armchair warriors really believe our submariners should fight in obsolete diesel-electric submarines in defence of our nation? Making the performative…

Victoria: divide and conquer

25 November 2022 9:51 am

The Victorian Premier leads by diversion, distraction, and division. He doesn’t answer journalists’ questions – diverting their attention to another…

Davos deities and the Schwabian dystopia

25 November 2022 4:00 am

Several years ago The Spectator Australia Editor and Sky News Australia host Rowan Dean said that it’s ‘a hardcore leftist eco-horror show replete with…

Australian law-making needs repair

24 November 2022 1:20 pm

Australian federal and state governments fall well short of good practice in developing and deciding policies that affect us all.…