FINANCIAL services giant KPMG is opening for business on Australia Day, saying staff can take another leave day if they choose. Meanwhile, competitors PwC and Deloitte have similar floating public holiday policies, however, have not been actively signalling the replacement of Australia’s…
AUSTRALIA’s ageing professors might be sans frontiers (without borders), in terms of the infinite subjects over which they range and on which they claim expertise, and the disparate forms of media they now embrace. But they are also, seemingly, without arguments and…
THERE are two kinds of vaccine virtue signalling. The obvious one is everywhere to be seen in the current vaccine dictatorships across the globe. The abuse meted out to the vaccine “refuseniks” has been relentless. The insults (stupid, selfish, granny-killer). The threats. …
AT LEAST some of the vitriol aimed at the vaccination refuseniks relates to the so-called free rider problem. The populist tone of much of the push for mass vaccinations to thwart COVID has the ring of Aussie jingoism. We are a nation…
IN HIS effort to rename Ben Boyd National Park, NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has been accused of resorting to “shoddy” history. The NSW Liberal’s Left faction co-leader has described 1800s entrepreneur Ben Boyd as a “slave trader” and vowed to work with…
JUST as the ancients stood in awe of the then Seven Wonders of the World, so one can but marvel at the mindset of the Left when seeking to re-introduce death duties. Over time, these duties cost public revenue much more than…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE is, seemingly, no rational argument that can penetrate the insanity bubble in which everyone working in Macquarie Street is so clearly cocooned. Just when you thought that the political management of what, by world standards, is a…
SPECTATOR Australia columnist James Allan recently lamented, as well he might, the unwillingness of Australia’s media to ask our politicians difficult questions about COVID. He referenced a recent article by Sarah Knapton in London’s The Telegraph newspaper about the emerging evidence that…
AUSTRALIA is now well and truly on the global map, for all the wrong reasons. The British historian Guy de la Bedoyere claims that “Australia is falling apart”. The Off Guardian suggests that we are “going full fascist”. The journalist class is…
OUR politicians’ latest silver bullet, near-universal vaccination, may well have a serious unintended consequence which we shall all regret. And given that in normal years the flu can sometimes kill over 1000 people, why don’t the media during each flu epidemic also…
