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Why has only five per cent of the government's small business support made it through?
100 years on, it’s well past time to rethink the court case that remade federation
The goings-on of the nation’s highest court rarely attract significant mainstream public attention. Yet the power of seven largely unknown judges to…
V is for Venezuela – and Victoria, too
The example of a pregnant woman in her home in front of her young children being interrogated and arrested by police graphically illustrates how…
Why has only five per cent of the government’s small business support made it through?
Amid all of the public fanfare created by the billions of dollars in “free money” handed out by the Morrison…
Oh Dan, I have sinned against you…
ITEM: The Australian, September 3, 2020 The arrest of a pregnant anti-lockdown protester, which was live-streamed on social media, has…
ANU students want to ban Churchill – but with no traumatic debate, please
Australia’s preeminent university, Australian National University is the latest institution to take part in the importation of cancel culture, with…
Good leaders minimise fear and explain their responses to a crisis. We’ve seen the opposite
Framing the coronavirus response as freedom vs. tyranny is counterproductive, because the government has so successfully stoked fear in Australians.…
Governments have made this recession worse. They can’t now impede recovery
A 7 per cent fall in GDP during the June quarter is pretty much to have been expected. Led by spending falls…
Recession 2020: you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
It’s official. We’re in recession, after two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Matters couldn’t be clearer. As the official release…
The BBC's bid to axe left-wing comedy will fail
People of a conservative or Eurosceptic disposition should be thankful that the BBC’s new director general, Tim Davie, is to…
Prepare for the rise of Irish Euroscepticism
Welcome to the wacky world of Irish national economic accounts. The official figures for Ireland’s tax-haven economy are so bizarre…
The problem with fast-tracking vaccines
You have to admit it, Operation Warp Speed is a good moniker. It’s the name for the American interagency program,…
My run-in with the New York Times
It’s never a good sign when you’re watching a scene of street terror in yet another gut-churning YouTube video and…
Living in Trumpland
If Donald Trump was looking a bit wobbly in the last few months, he certainly isn’t anymore. Not after the…
Out with the old
Based on the seven-day rolling average, reported Covid-19 deaths in the northern hemisphere peaked in April, 2020. This suggests, even…
Auty, Albrechtsen and the fate of the West
In a recent edition of The Spectator Australia, Giles Auty took yet another swipe at communism as a political system…
Covid is changing everything
Covid-19 has had a relatively mild impact in Australia. But the political response to it has changed everything. Governments have…
Business/Robbery etc.
London rules the roost at Rio Tinto If push came to shove between Australia and China, don’t expect Australia’s biggest…
Mr Morrison, tear down these walls
The problem with Australians isn’t that so many of them are descended from convicts, Clive James once said, but that…
Enthusiasm, the winning ingredient
There could not be a clearer choice in the US presidential election. Since the settlement, we Australians have lived in…
We need a No-Lockdown Party
Take a guess readers. What percentage of Americans live in aged-care facilities? The answer is 0.6 per cent. Now guess…
Angus Cerini
No longer confined to the digital space, the Australian Chamber Orchestra is returning to the platform in City Recital Hall…
Paul Newton
Things are starting to happen culturally, at least outside of Victoria. Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre is rehearsing a play to…
Zadie Smith
She had a heady start to her writing career. The rights to her first novel were the subject of a…
A.N. Wilson
Kathy Lette says that during lockdown she has been reading Dickens. Her choice illustrates the enduring appeal of Charles Dickens…
The story of Sealand – a most improbable sovereign state
In 2012, the editors of Vice ran an article aimed at would-be contributors to their self-avowedly edgy magazine headed ‘Never…
As Lucian Freud’s fame increases his indiscretions multiply
Staying with Peregrine Eliot (later 10th Earl of St Germans) at Port Eliot in Cornwall, Lucian Freud remembered that the…
Forlorn Plorn: The Dickens Boy, by Thomas Keneally, reviewed
Parents are always terrified of bad family history repeating itself. Prince Albert dreaded his son Bertie turning into a roué…
The South Sea Company’s bonds were never meant to be a scam
In Money for Nothing, Thomas Levenson brings us into the story of the South Sea Bubble by writing about the…
Not such a hero: the tarnished legend of Robin Hood
Britain’s two most famous legendary figures, King Arthur and Robin Hood, remain enduringly and endearingly elusive, and thus ever-fascinating: Arthur…
Portrait of a paranoiac: Death in Her Hands, by Ottessa Moshfegh, reviewed
Like Ottessa Moshfegh’s first novel Eileen (2015), Death in Her Hands plays with the conventions of noir. Vesta Gul, a…
The paradox of Graham Greene – searching for peace in the world’s warzones
Joseph Conrad’s death made Graham Greene feel, at 19, sitting on a beach in Yorkshire, ‘as if there was a…
When Britannia ruled the southern waves
In 1798, Tipu Sultan of Mysore sent an embassy to Mauritius. At home, he had fought the British and seen…