Category Archives: Spectator

Another woke referendum bites the dust Mark Higgie [Getty Images] Mark Higgie 6 April 2024 9:00 AM This will sound familiar to Australians. A leftist government makes a core part of its agenda persuading voters to ‘modernise’ the constitution by backing referendum proposals reflecting its ‘progressive’ social agenda. Rather than explaining in detail the proposedContinue reading “Pluck of the Irish”

Be very sceptical about government spending on immigration James Allan [Getty Images] James Allan 6 April 2024 9:00 AM There was an absolutely brilliant take-down of one of the core assumptions underlying the Keynesian economic worldview the other day. It was in the pages of the Daily Sceptic, the creation of Toby Young who isContinue reading “More people does not mean more wealth”

Lillian Andrews Getty Images Lillian Andrews 6 April 2024 2:37 PM Albanese handing the Governor-General’s gig to tame activist Sam Mostyn gave the Liberals a perfect opportunity to call out Labor’s unfettered cronyism and obsession with rewarding identity politics. Faced with that opening, the Liberals scuttled away like a swarm of cockroaches fleeing a suddenContinue reading “Another day, another women problem for the Libs”

A majority that stays silent does not long remain a majority Rod Lampard Getty Images Rod Lampard 22 March 2024 9:52 AM Former Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is warning against complacency in the face of ‘creeping Wokeness’. The conservative Prime Minister, who ousted grandiose leftwing populist, Kevin ‘07’ Rudd, made the comments in response to Ireland’s referendumContinue reading “Tony Abbott warns against complacency in the face of ‘creeping Wokeness’”

Brendan O’Neill A gender neutral toilet (Credit: Getty images) Brendan O’Neill 17 March 2024 6:15 PM Remember when Irish singer Róisín Murphy was set upon by the mob last year? Her crime: she criticised puberty blockers and said we should stop dishing them out like candy to vulnerable kids. The blowback was furious. Armies ofContinue reading “How was the puberty blocking scandal ever allowed to happen?”

Beverley McArthur Pexels Beverley McArthur 14 March 2024 2:00 AM Cash is no longer King. Long before the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to remove the monarch from our five-dollar note, a campaign had already begun to make Australia cashless. Not a grassroots campaign led by the community, but rather one led by theContinue reading “Becoming cashless, but at what cost?”

Brendan O’Neill (Photo: Twitter / Palestine Action) Brendan O’Neill 10 March 2024 1:12 AM There’s a new movement in town: Philistines for Palestine. Not content with traipsing through the streets every other weekend to holler their hatred for Israel, now ‘pro-Palestine’ activists are taking aim at art. Witness yesterday’s fevered attack on the painting ofContinue reading “The disgusting defacement of Lord Balfour’s painting”

Carla Celani  ·   · 12 February, 2024 Howard Dewhirst – The Spectator Australia Can there ever have been such a pathetic example of historical mis-and-disinformation as the Woke claim that the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook and the subsequent landing of British convicts at what became Sydney, was an ‘invasion’? Arriving at BotanyContinue reading “Senator Jacinta Price – Australia the Nation United”

Qatar is not an honest broker in the Middle East Rebecca Weisser Features Australia Getty Images Rebecca Weisser 20 January 2024 9:00 AM Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s trip to the Middle East is the latest demonstration of the Albanese government’s vacillating foreign policy but why should anyone be surprised? Sunday marked 100 days since HamasContinue reading “Billionaire Islamists behind the war”

What is heating the oceans isn’t human CO2 emissions Ian Plimer Getty Images Ian Plimer 20 January 2024 9:00 AM What a pleasure to be in a place where they drive on the left, speak French, have UK power plugs, are Christian, and have never had a population that claims to be First Nations peopleContinue reading “Climate con exposed in serene Seychelles”

What climate crisis? David Flint Features Australia Getty Images David Flint 18 March 2023 9:00 AM Australia has more than reached net zero emissions, and we are in surplus, argues the nation’s leading climate scientist. So why is the Albanese government pouring billions into going even further with this agenda, and in the process wreckingContinue reading “Australia has already achieved net zero”

The fabrication of Aboriginal history David Flint Features Australia Getty Images David Flint 20 January 2024 9:00 AM Senator Jacinta Price astounded the nation during the recent referendum campaign when, courageously, she dared tell a journalist there were no ongoing negative impacts of colonisation. The only continuing impacts, she said, were positive. Pointing out thatContinue reading “Keeping Australia Day”

The Spectator Australia Leading article Australia Getty Images The Spectator Australia 20 January 2024 9:00 AM As the long summer holidays draw to a close, Australia’s malcontents have roused themselves for their annual attack on Australia’s national identity. They include the tone-deaf occupants of Australian boardrooms who have learned nothing from the resounding defeat ofContinue reading “Celebrating the spirit of Oz”

Libby Klein Flat White Getty Images Libby Klein 13 January 2024 7:24 PM What decision-making role will the Australian Parliament have in relation to the proposed International Health Regulations amendments? There’s a debate raging about whether proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) will involve countries such as Australia ceding sovereignty to the World HealthContinue reading “Ceding sovereignty?”

Don’t raze Australian culture in the name of progress David Pearl Features Australia Getty Images David Pearl 20 January 2024 9:00 AM This Australia Day will be celebrated by a divided and demoralised community. Inflation and bracket creep have eaten into the living standards of millions of Australians, with many suffering financial distress. Anti-Semitism isContinue reading

On the eve of Australia Day, and when Australians are doing it tough, the Prime Minister has betrayed our nation Matthew Camenzuli Flat White Getty Images Matthew Camenzuli 18 January 2024 2:48 AM On Friday morning, US President Joe Biden announced to the world that, with Australia’s support, the US and UK, along with otherContinue reading “Political cowardice is putting our country at risk”

Stephen Fyson Flat White Getty Images Stephen Fyson 27 March 2023 7:00 AM I heard the term ‘severe climate anxiety’ again today. It was reportedly used as a defence to help someone achieve a lesser penalty for obstructing peak-hour traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The report did not surprise me, but it added toContinue reading “The psychology of moral evasion”

Flat White Pexels Flat White 7 September 2023 7:00 AM There’s nothing but heartbreak and dismay as another renewable energy project looms over regional Australia. Danish company European Energy has been given approval to build Australia’s largest solar ‘farm’ a mere 70km from the Great Barrier Reef – the same reef that climate scientists weepContinue reading “Australia’s biggest solar farm: ‘We are collateral damage in the race to Net Zero’”

Flat White Getty Images Flat White 11 January 2024 4:10 PM For months – not days – capital cities across Australia were wrapped in glitter and rainbows to service the feelings of a minority. You couldn’t escape Town Hall station in Sydney without hitting your head on Trans-bunting or shop in peace through a seaContinue reading “A month of Pride but no Australia Day”

Stephen Fyson Flat White Pexels Stephen Fyson 12 January 2024 3:30 AM I am not optimistic about seeing moral clarity from many (or most?) of our current federal government leaders. Their apparent political philosophy drives them towards an overwhelming pragmatism, which means their ends constantly justify their means. This is consistent with us living inContinue reading “The fog of moral clarity”