In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Memes: the road to collectivism
As politics becomes increasingly polarised, policymakers are no longer focused on giving voters what they want, but on making voters…
The fallacy of equity: South Africa’s warning to the West
What do rolling blackouts, public disorder, and impending societal collapse in South Africa, have to do with the contemporary preoccupations…
Calling it what it is: voluntary assisted tragedy
Canada’s government has been tussling with the idea of providing voluntary euthanasia for those with mental health issues. This poses…
Masking science with politics in the Covid era
The release of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages in the ‘Lockdown files’ has been an eye-opener for many who are now…
Super betrayal: it’s not a tax on the rich, it’s a tax on the young
Throughout my twenty years as a financial planner, a frequent objection to my strategies is, ‘I don’t trust super’. The proposed…
The fanatical foot soldiers of feminism
So, another International Women’s Day has come and gone, and the usual plethora of dubious statistics, socialist ideology, and tendentious…
Australia’s big picture: climate change, nuclear energy, and defence
We are destroying our economy by shutting down baseload power whilst subsidising fake renewables, big batteries, and the incredible energy-gobbling…
CLARIFICATION – FLORADA
On 14 February 2023, The Spectator Australia published an article entitled ‘Covid killed the Roses’ on our Flat White column…
Get Woke, go broke: Vanguard ditches ESG investing
The world’s second largest asset management firm, Vanguard, with $8 trillion AUM, has pulled out of the ESG madness. This…
Men welcome in women’s basketball
It’s funny how the universe works. The first round of the women’s NBL1 competition is set for April 1st. That’s…
Alan Jones: should the pension age be lowered for Indigenous people?
Wouldn’t it be valid to argue (though Australians are frightened to say it) that Indigenous Australians, who constitute 3.8 per…
Silicon Valley Bank: doomed to fail?
The basic question to ask about the collapse of the $200 billion Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is, why did it…
Hopping off into Woke madness: Puma drops kangaroos
Sportswear giant Puma has gotten itself into a bungle. To polish its Woke credentials, the company decided to drop its…
Dignity – yours to lose
On my morning walk with the dog I passed through a family gathering. The path I was on goes right…
Did the ivermectin ban cost lives?
It appears that we live in a reality where doctors are censored and early treatments such as ivermectin are banned,…
The horrifying rehabilitation of paedophilia
There’s no faster route to acceptance, even canonisation, in the post-modernist, feelings-trump-facts contemporary world than the path of victimhood. Don…
Who qualifies for the Voice?
The so-called ‘Voice to Parliament’ is a proposal for a race-based advisory body established via a referendum to amend Australia’s…
Australia’s creeping codependency
There’s an old joke in psychology that when a codependent is dying, they see everyone else’s lives flashing before their…
Why I do not celebrate International Women’s Day (and what I propose in its stead)
International Women’s Day has come and gone once again. March 8 is the day we are exhorted to turn our…
Attempting to cancel Zulu exposes the Left’s idiocy
You would be hard pressed to find an Australian soldier who has served since the reactivation of National Service in…
A fresh approach to energy policy
Current energy policy in Australia is based on the arguments that greenhouse-gas emissions should be sharply reduced and that, as…
Giving six-figures to racism
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission recently spent $1.3 million on Voices of Racism, the second wave of the 2017…
Rowan Dean: We don’t need a Voice because we already have one
As readers know, I occasionally like to be the bearer of good news and today I am delighted to tell…
Post-referendum blues
Come the referendum and the Voice will be dead or alive. But the shouting will continue. Post-referendum Australia will have…
Rules-Nazis
I went for a surf this morning, vaguely aware of a notion that fibreglass boards shouldn’t be used at the…
Editor’s picks
Magazine
Trump punctures India’s hype
But risks significant harm to their strategic partnership as an Indo-Pacific counterweight to China
