Jack the Insider is out of bounds
For the past two and a half years, Jack the Insider (Peter Hoysted), through his columns in the Australian, has waged…
Sportspeople should know their limitations
Clint Eastwood, in the character of Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callaghan, delivered what may well be one of the most underrated…
Was Christianity buried with Queen Elizabeth II?
Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II made no bones about her deep Christian faith. Indeed, in her 2014 Christmas message,…
Fool’s gold
With Australia heading toward a referendum next year on a constitutionally enshrined indigenous ‘voice’ to parliament, the need for a…
Why I voted for Giorgia Meloni
As an Italian citizen resident abroad, I have the right to vote in Italian elections and referenda. While in past…
Ben Falconer to appeal mandatory vaccination decision
Following the judgment in his judicial review of the WA mandatory vaccination directions, which saw those directions upheld, Ben Falconer’s…
Elizabeth II: the greatest of monarchs
The Queen is dead. Long live the King. These are the words that must be uttered upon the death of…
Australia died when Zoe Buhler was handcuffed
On September 2, 2020, a young pregnant woman in Ballarat, Zoe Buhler, had several police officers turn up at her…
More papal bull
Trudeau, the pope and the missionary
Ben Falconer’s loss highlights WA’s terrible laws
Senior Constable Ben Falconer’s challenge to the mandatory vaccine directions of the Chief Health Officer for Western Australia and the…
McGowan’s bid for total control
It is to the 19th century British historian, politician, and moralist Lord Acton that we owe the phrase: ‘Power tends…
ScoMo’s secret dysfunction
Revelations that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly had himself sworn in as minister in five key portfolios, namely: Treasury,…
The Liberals’ worst enemy: themselves
Reading Morning Double Shot Editor Terry Barnes’ piece on Friday made me think of the history of the Liberal party and how,…
Liberals: stop chasing the Left into the abyss
There is an old saying that my supervising partner said to me when, in a previous life, I was employed…
WA playing politics at the border?
In Western Australia, a state government minister has been accused of allegedly preferencing political donors for border entry during the…
Challenge to WA vaccine mandate set for July 13
After six months and some delays, Senior Constable Ben Falconer’s challenge to the WA mandatory vaccine directions is due to…
Christianity in decline? Ask the Church why
The Australian Bureau of Statistics last week released data from the 2021 Census, revealing how the number of Australians who…
Federal ICAC? Be careful what you wish for
The saying ‘the ends justify the means’ is often erroneously attributed to the early 16th century Florentine diplomat and philosopher…
Will Italy at last slay the Covid leopard?
Mandatory vaccination faces a constitutional challenge
Is the Catholic Church going Woke?
Double Shot Editor Terry Barnes wrote on Tuesday there was an article just waiting for me to write on a…
Is this (rough) democratic justice?
In December 1989, the Queensland National Party government lost power after 32 years in office. As David Barnett recounts in…
Samuel Griffith Society: 30 years standing up for the rule of law
The Samuel Griffith Society was established in 1992. Named after the first Chief Justice of the High Court, its motto is…
Crucial legal front opens in WA vaccine mandate challenge
Spectator Australia readers will recall that, in a recent piece, I reported on an urgent hearing on the evening of Monday, March…
Roe v. Wade v. the Rule of Law
Last year, the US Supreme Court heard an argument in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation which…
Who the ‘bloody hell’ are the Libs?
The 1987 election was the first I took interest in. Seeing two politicians of conviction, Bob Hawke and John Howard,…
