Controversial initiatives to curb worker fatalities appear to be effective. Alan Austin reports. read now...
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Weeks ago, The Spectator Australia warned that there was a risk Moira Deeming could be dropped in favour of Indian community leader Dinesh Gourisetty, who was challenging her at this weekend’s preselection.
Deeming, who was only contesting the top spot on the ticket, will now lose her seat at the Victorian election later this year after the party ...
Andrew Hastie hung out his leadership shingle in a weekend interview that may have a few Liberals wondering if the right’s factional heavyweights made the best judgement in choosing Angus Taylor for the top job. Hastie wanted to run for the leadership earlier this year but the right’s numbers
After weeks of pretending everything is fine, the government has authorised itself to use emergency powers to manage the fuel supply crisis.
It has done this with no coherent plan.
The Prime Minister and his Energy Minister have been gaslighting the public for weeks, repeatedly mentioning so-called ‘panic buyers’, harking back to the days of Covid ...
You only realise how depressing it has become to live in Keir Starmer’s Britain when you land in Cape Town towards the end of an interminable northern winter. Your mood immediately lifts – and it’s not only because of the warm ocean air or the diamond sky above Table mountain. There is a contented buzz about the place.
Take your seat in a bar or ...
Despite still searching for a social media policy, the government launched – with great fanfare – a pilot this week involving 300 teenagers. Over the next six weeks, these children will be subject to varying restrictions on their use of social media, ranging from time limits to a complete ban.
Events have overtaken this social experiment, however, and ...
What is it that doctors actually do? The answer is not obvious, and I say that as a physician who has spent the past 30 years in hospitals. But the question matters. Which tasks can be done better or more cheaply by nurses, paramedics, or AI depends upon it. So, too, does the government’s push to create NHS Online.
Trailed last September in Keir ...
As the Islamist regime in Iran attacks Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Bahrain and Kuwait with drones and missiles, some in Britain are quietly happy to see the Gulf’s skyscrapers lose their shine. ‘Dubai has no culture or history,’ say the armchair critics. Is this British bitterness caused by contempt of a former colonial power? When it comes to measures ...
Whilst Adolf Hitler was adept at blaming everything and everyone except himself for the problems of war, he did make one apposite comment on the German failures of the first world war.
In a memorandum on Autarky in 1936, he lamented that Germany had failed to obtain enough ‘fuel, rubber, copper, or tin’ to continue the war.
This is a blunt strategic ...
Australia’s schools are still too often measured by ATAR scores, NAPLAN results and exam rankings. read now...
Sex workers are descending upon Melbourne’s Magistrates Court at 8.45 am on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, to call for justice for Yuko, a 62-year-old Asian migrant sex worker, who was raped and murdered in horrible circumstances, as she was legally working in a Footscray brothel. And those rallying before the court are calling for the case to go to trial, so ...
A few months ago, Andrew Hastie’s name was tossed into the potential leadership mix as the rumour mill tried to decide who would replace Sussan Ley.
Anyone, really…
Eventually Angus Taylor was decided upon as a factional compromise – the tasteful blueish hue with the well-worn wealthy professionalism necessary to speak to the wayward Teal seats. He was ...
Controversial initiatives to curb worker fatalities appear to be effective. Alan Austin reports. read now...
Weeks ago, The Spectator Australia warned that there was a risk Moira Deeming could be dropped in favour of Indian community leader Dinesh Gourisetty, who was challenging her at this weekend’s preselection.
Deeming, who was only contesting the top spot on the ticket, will now lose her seat at the Victorian election later this year after the party ...
Andrew Hastie hung out his leadership shingle in a weekend interview that may have a few Liberals wondering if the right’s factional heavyweights made the best judgement in choosing Angus Taylor for the top job. Hastie wanted to run for the leadership earlier this year but the right’s numbers
After weeks of pretending everything is fine, the government has authorised itself to use emergency powers to manage the fuel supply crisis.
It has done this with no coherent plan.
The Prime Minister and his Energy Minister have been gaslighting the public for weeks, repeatedly mentioning so-called ‘panic buyers’, harking back to the days of Covid ...
You only realise how depressing it has become to live in Keir Starmer’s Britain when you land in Cape Town towards the end of an interminable northern winter. Your mood immediately lifts – and it’s not only because of the warm ocean air or the diamond sky above Table mountain. There is a contented buzz about the place.
Take your seat in a bar or ...
Despite still searching for a social media policy, the government launched – with great fanfare – a pilot this week involving 300 teenagers. Over the next six weeks, these children will be subject to varying restrictions on their use of social media, ranging from time limits to a complete ban.
Events have overtaken this social experiment, however, and ...
What is it that doctors actually do? The answer is not obvious, and I say that as a physician who has spent the past 30 years in hospitals. But the question matters. Which tasks can be done better or more cheaply by nurses, paramedics, or AI depends upon it. So, too, does the government’s push to create NHS Online.
Trailed last September in Keir ...
As the Islamist regime in Iran attacks Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Bahrain and Kuwait with drones and missiles, some in Britain are quietly happy to see the Gulf’s skyscrapers lose their shine. ‘Dubai has no culture or history,’ say the armchair critics. Is this British bitterness caused by contempt of a former colonial power? When it comes to measures ...
Whilst Adolf Hitler was adept at blaming everything and everyone except himself for the problems of war, he did make one apposite comment on the German failures of the first world war.
In a memorandum on Autarky in 1936, he lamented that Germany had failed to obtain enough ‘fuel, rubber, copper, or tin’ to continue the war.
This is a blunt strategic ...
Australia’s schools are still too often measured by ATAR scores, NAPLAN results and exam rankings. read now...
Sex workers are descending upon Melbourne’s Magistrates Court at 8.45 am on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, to call for justice for Yuko, a 62-year-old Asian migrant sex worker, who was raped and murdered in horrible circumstances, as she was legally working in a Footscray brothel. And those rallying before the court are calling for the case to go to trial, so ...
A few months ago, Andrew Hastie’s name was tossed into the potential leadership mix as the rumour mill tried to decide who would replace Sussan Ley.
Anyone, really…
Eventually Angus Taylor was decided upon as a factional compromise – the tasteful blueish hue with the well-worn wealthy professionalism necessary to speak to the wayward Teal seats. He was ...