Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty ImageBrigitte Bardot’s death, at the age of 91, brings to a close one of the most extraordinary careers in post-war French cultural life. Best known as an actress, she was also a singer, a fashion icon, an animal rights activist and a symbol of France’s
Nostalgia has taken hold of the conservative movement.
Familiar faces from the ‘glory’ days of the broad church have popped up in the news cycle, filling the absence of leadership left by the eternal listening of Sussan Ley.
Everyone knows the party needs a new leader.
The political machine is waiting out the holidays, biding its time, and watching to ...
Dr Abul Rizvi has yet another Top 10 Story of the Year. This former Immigration Department head is now the most in-demand national media expert in this field. He writes or IA, including this vital May article on topic debated at very suburban BBQ. read now...
Israeli President's invitation must be withdrawn Pip Hinman Sun, 28/12/2025 - 15:43
To attack the pen is to window-dress the failure of the hand that guided it. Doing so obscures the misaligned processes, judgments, and interventions that truly demand scrutiny.
In matters of terrorism and public safety, the law must address intent, conduct, proportionality, and failure of prevention – not mistake the instrument for the author.
If ...
2025 is drawing to a close. So, because everyone likes a listicle, let’s now trawl through some of the worst of politics over the past year.
1: Losing big: Peter Dutton shows us precisely how to turn a small lead, to a knife-edge tie, to a catastrophic defeat. Peter Dutton was once riding high after the defeat of the Voice Referendum, which failed to ...
For years, offshore wind has been presented as a narrow climate and energy question – a matter of emissions targets, megawatts and project timelines. That framing is now outdated.
Across the United States and Europe, offshore wind is increasingly being reassessed through a very different lens: national security. Defence agencies, intelligence officials ...
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon has exercised post-Bondi Beach massacre knee-jerk reaction laws to impose a blanket ban on protests across a large area of Greater Sydney for 14 days. And while many NSW constituents understand that this ban has been linked to the Bondi mass shooting, the dubious logic that underpins this idea, and the ...
Australia has been profoundly betrayed. Canberra is not governing in the interests of the people; politicians are systematically entrenching their own authority against us.
Their greatest fear appears to be a strong, proud, united citizenry rising to demand accountability and reclaim what has been taken.
That is why every crisis, every tragedy, every ...
When a leading Zionist calls six other Australian Jews "antisemitic" – and worse – over criticisms of Israel, the issues are deep. Hence this February piece, by those six, was so vital, well-received and much read. read now...
I have been quiet for a week and a half. Now it is time to return to battle, a metaphorical battle at least. If only there were no need…
The events of December 14 will inevitably accelerate a political realignment in Australia. That much is unavoidable. If the Liberal Party is to become a serious party of government again, rather than a temporary ...
On December 6, I published an article on Substack, later also by The Spectator Australia, decrying the then imminent social media ban for those under 16. I concluded my article thus:
‘Nice internet you’ve got there, be a shame if we stopped letting you use it.’ First, they came for the under-16s etc. The only ones it protects is the government and ...
Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty ImageBrigitte Bardot’s death, at the age of 91, brings to a close one of the most extraordinary careers in post-war French cultural life. Best known as an actress, she was also a singer, a fashion icon, an animal rights activist and a symbol of France’s
Nostalgia has taken hold of the conservative movement.
Familiar faces from the ‘glory’ days of the broad church have popped up in the news cycle, filling the absence of leadership left by the eternal listening of Sussan Ley.
Everyone knows the party needs a new leader.
The political machine is waiting out the holidays, biding its time, and watching to ...
Dr Abul Rizvi has yet another Top 10 Story of the Year. This former Immigration Department head is now the most in-demand national media expert in this field. He writes or IA, including this vital May article on topic debated at very suburban BBQ. read now...
Israeli President's invitation must be withdrawn Pip Hinman Sun, 28/12/2025 - 15:43
To attack the pen is to window-dress the failure of the hand that guided it. Doing so obscures the misaligned processes, judgments, and interventions that truly demand scrutiny.
In matters of terrorism and public safety, the law must address intent, conduct, proportionality, and failure of prevention – not mistake the instrument for the author.
If ...
2025 is drawing to a close. So, because everyone likes a listicle, let’s now trawl through some of the worst of politics over the past year.
1: Losing big: Peter Dutton shows us precisely how to turn a small lead, to a knife-edge tie, to a catastrophic defeat. Peter Dutton was once riding high after the defeat of the Voice Referendum, which failed to ...
For years, offshore wind has been presented as a narrow climate and energy question – a matter of emissions targets, megawatts and project timelines. That framing is now outdated.
Across the United States and Europe, offshore wind is increasingly being reassessed through a very different lens: national security. Defence agencies, intelligence officials ...
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon has exercised post-Bondi Beach massacre knee-jerk reaction laws to impose a blanket ban on protests across a large area of Greater Sydney for 14 days. And while many NSW constituents understand that this ban has been linked to the Bondi mass shooting, the dubious logic that underpins this idea, and the ...
Australia has been profoundly betrayed. Canberra is not governing in the interests of the people; politicians are systematically entrenching their own authority against us.
Their greatest fear appears to be a strong, proud, united citizenry rising to demand accountability and reclaim what has been taken.
That is why every crisis, every tragedy, every ...
When a leading Zionist calls six other Australian Jews "antisemitic" – and worse – over criticisms of Israel, the issues are deep. Hence this February piece, by those six, was so vital, well-received and much read. read now...
I have been quiet for a week and a half. Now it is time to return to battle, a metaphorical battle at least. If only there were no need…
The events of December 14 will inevitably accelerate a political realignment in Australia. That much is unavoidable. If the Liberal Party is to become a serious party of government again, rather than a temporary ...
On December 6, I published an article on Substack, later also by The Spectator Australia, decrying the then imminent social media ban for those under 16. I concluded my article thus:
‘Nice internet you’ve got there, be a shame if we stopped letting you use it.’ First, they came for the under-16s etc. The only ones it protects is the government and ...