Flat White Getty Images Flat White 24 January 2025 6:10 PM It is quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals want to cut down colonial trees as an act of protest while also believing that we are in the middle of a world-ending climate apocalypse. Attempting toContinue reading “Dedicated to revenge: anti-Australian activism must end”
Category Archives: Spectator
Farewell safe spaces, hello space
Flat White Pexels Flat White 23 January 2025 1:24 AM The ‘trust the science’ people must be thrilled. Donald Trump has upheld biological reality against deluded activism. Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government was signed on January 20. It was an executive order explicitly aimed at ‘ideologuesContinue reading “Farewell safe spaces, hello space”
Give it a rest, Elon was saluting Mars
Flat White Getty Images Flat White 21 January 2025 5:01 PM We need to come up with a word for modern press hysteria which is obsessed with chasing the ghost of Hitler, probably to obscure its declining popularity. Today was another perfect example of a disinformation frenzy where billionaire entrepreneur, Elon Musk – the manContinue reading “Give it a rest, Elon was saluting Mars”
The Vikings never really went away
More from Books The Norsemen were settlers as well as raiders, and by the 860s had built up a ‘great heathen army’ to conquer and colonise much of Britain and the Continent Anne de Courcy A 19th-century view of the Siege of Paris by the Vikings in 845. Anne de Courcy 11 January 2025 9:00Continue reading “The Vikings never really went away”
Australia was not invaded
Luke Powell Getty Images Luke Powell 18 January 2025 11:58 PM Was Australia invaded by Britain on January 26, 1788? For a growing number of people, our national holiday, which marks the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove, represents an ‘invasion’. According to recent polling, 69 per cent of Australians want to keepContinue reading “Australia was not invaded”
JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia
Michael de Percy Flat White Getty Images Michael de Percy 19 January 2025 7:36 PM I read JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy years before he was popular. In fact, I bought his book while I was in Shanghai in 2018. It turns out it was the most unlikely of places to buy the book – aContinue reading “JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia”
Multiculturalism in Australia, RIP?
Stephen Chavura The Spectator Australia 18 January 2025 ‘Australia’s culture is multiculturalism.’ This was the answer my high school teacher gave when my class was discussing what Australian culture is back in late 1990s. Apparently, Germany, Lebanon, France, and every other country in history had a culture, but not Australia, which was merely a collectionContinue reading “Multiculturalism in Australia, RIP?”
Where are the righteous of Gaza?
Glorifying jihadists has created a populace that supports terrorism David Adler Getty Images David Adler Features Australia 18 January 2025 9:00 AM The most distressing aspect of Israel’s prolonged defensive war against the barbaric Hamas terrorists is the plight of the remaining 100 hostages in Gaza. Recent testimonies from released hostages provide an insight intoContinue reading “Where are the righteous of Gaza?”
The media resent Dutton’s patriotism pledge
Flat White Getty Images Flat White 15 January 2025 1:23 PM Who is spearheading the political narrative of Australia? Is it the robust debate between Coalition and Labor – the elected (if not ideologically unreliable) duopoly that pass the crown between themselves every three years? Or is it the ravenous press, whose ranks are padded-outContinue reading “The media resent Dutton’s patriotism pledge”
The quiet bravery of Kate Middleton
Alexander Larman Catherine, Princess of Wales (Credit: Getty images) Alexander Larman 15 January 2025 10:27 PM It may only be halfway through January, but the two opposed branches of the younger royal family have both made their first significant public statements of the year. Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex came forwardContinue reading “The quiet bravery of Kate Middleton”
Australians built a nation – has anyone noticed?
Reg Hamilton Getty Images Reg Hamilton 8 January 2025 2:00 AM The 19th Century Prince of Sicily said in the wonderful novel The Leopard, ‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.’ As if putting the Prince’s words into practice, Europe invented the idea of ‘progress’. Progress was a strange thing forContinue reading “Australians built a nation – has anyone noticed?”
Features Australia
Beside the joys of Christmas A foundation pillar of Western civilisation David Flint Getty Images David Flint 14 December 2024 9:00 AM The Christmas season recalls the fundamental and continuing importance of one of this nation’s and, indeed, our civilisation’s pillars, our Judeo-Christian heritage and values. That this is a country of different religions, andContinue reading “Features Australia”
I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas
Rebecca Weisser TThe Spectator Australia14 December 2024 May your days be merry celebrating dud climate change predictions. The snow is snowing, the wind is blowing, admittedly not in Sydney, but Seoul has been blanketed by the heaviest snowfall in five decades, an arctic blast has buried parts of the Great Lakes of North America, andContinue reading “I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas”
A Christian revival is under way
Ayaan Hirsi Ali The Spectator Australia 14 December 2024 This is my second Christmas as a Christian. As an atheist, I had dismissed the bright lights and customs of Christmas as traditions that had evolved to keep our spirits up as the cold of winter creeps in. But the more I learn about, and participateContinue reading “A Christian revival is under way”
Opening the Overton window
Senator Babet The Spectator Australia December 10, 2024 Liberal leader Peter Dutton is winning in the polls as he continues to take his cues from the United Australia Party. Mr Dutton’s latest election promise – to drop the Aboriginal flag from government press conferences – is something I have been doing and advocating for sinceContinue reading “Opening the Overton window”
Striking a blow for men – and against media bias
Sarah Game The Spectator Australia December 10, 2024 Mainstream media often blithely dismisses viewpoints or ideas from what it considers unfashionable or undesirable sources. I experienced another example of it recently, when a successful initiative I have driven in South Australia was brushed off and disparaged, simply because of its connection to One Nation. ForContinue reading “Striking a blow for men – and against media bias”
Why Americans fear for Britain
Roger Kimball The Spectator Australia 10 December 2024 As an American Anglophile, I find it difficult not to look upon the news emanating from Great Britain and despair. ‘Terminally ill pensioners could end their lives earlier to spare loved ones six figure tax bills, experts have warned,’ says the Telegraph. A Christian preacher in WestContinue reading “Why Americans fear for Britain”
Guillotine orders: a constitutional aberration?
Gabriël A. Moens AM The Spectator Australia 11 December 2024 It has been widely reported that the Senate, on November 29, ramrodded 32 bills through the Senate without any meaningful debate. Some of the legislation was very contentious, if not controversial. For example, the Senate, with bipartisan support, adopted the under-16 social media ban. CommentatorsContinue reading “Guillotine orders: a constitutional aberration?”
Net Zero is communism and it wants to overthrow our Parliament
Flat White The Spectator Australia December 9, 2024 ‘F-ck Germany … and f-ck Israel!’ giggled climate mascot Greta Thunberg from behind a lectern draped in a keffiyeh while wearing another one around her neck. In a November tweet, Ms Thunberg said she had been travelling through northern Kurdistan, listening to ‘countless stories of the currentContinue reading “Net Zero is communism and it wants to overthrow our Parliament”
Trump: the great global reset
Graham Young The Spectator Australia 8 December 2024 The re-election of Donald Trump resets the world… His former presidency was almost whimsical. Trump was a rank outsider with a very narrow path to victory, one which he only just managed to thread. He was also a naif. As he says himself, following the election heContinue reading “Trump: the great global reset”
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