Category: Spectator Australia

We believe it’s important SpecOz readers are across events and fully informed. Most of you would have heard how a male baboon — and its two significant others — escaped from Sydney’s Prince Alfred Hospital ahead of a scheduled vasectomy on Tuesday. The follow-up, however, hasn’t had the attention it

So, if the news early last week was that Anthony Albanese refused to back future coal developments, it seems that by the end of the week, he had doubled down on the cause of climate change by announcing that The Australian Labor Party backs zero net emissions by 2050.  On

‘You have to understand,’ PC Gul allegedly intoned, ‘sometimes in the womb, a female brain gets confused and pushes out the wrong body parts, and that is what transgender is.’ Harry Miller, owner of a stevedoring firm and ex-policeman, was flummoxed. ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. Wrong body parts?

I stumbled into true-believer HQ in Britain last December. ‘We’re all climate warriors here,’ says my old friend and gives me a hot-off-the-press copy of Absolute Zero, a government-funded report of which her husband is co-author. ‘Excellent,’ says I, ‘for I am an arch-sceptic’, provoking her brilliant son to promise,

Now that the ‘shocking’ new evidence in the Sky News documentary MH370: The Untold Story has been revealed, I write to report a disappearance. Of the various theories and leads that have been advanced since the tragedy on 8 March 2014, there is one that has gone missing, never sighted

As is obvious from recent events, we live in times where it is not enough to disagree with someone and have a healthy debate about the issues in contention. Rather, the regular practice these days is to abuse other people for holding a different opinion from yourself, force them to

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.  Sun Tzu, The Art of War.  Climate hysteria around the western world is perfectly aligned with China’s objective to economically subdue the west without fighting. Climate alarmists, that army of ‘useful idiots’, share China’s objective of breaking down

One of the central tenets of a worthwhile, rigorous and balanced education system is there is room for disagreement, discussion and debate; especially related to controversial issues where there are opposing views.  Not when it comes to human-induced global warming.  For simply wanting to provide resources to

This year’s annual report from the regulatory collective that is the Energy Security Board awards itself gongs for overseeing a (temporary) spot price decline and assembling an armoury if new tools to prevent catastrophe from a system poisoned by renewable energy subsidies. Unfortunately, it declines to illuminate

The coronavirus has enforced a hiatus in Hong Kong’s widespread political unrest with worries about transmission stalling protests. Dissatisfaction with the government still festers, fuelled by the mishandling of the health crisis – all the ingredients are there for protests to reignite. But the lull in the unrest gives the