A friend, with a lot more culture than your columnist, used to carry audio recordings of two works on her…What to read next: Dark and crooked byways | Music as pasta | The barbarity of this man | The music of their eloquence
If your younger acquaintances start referring to you (or anything you do) as ‘mid’ they are not being polite. For Gen Z ‘mid’ now means ‘mediocre or low quality’. The hyper-hip
A funny thing happened on the way to the Eurovision Song Contest. The ethereal Russian Israeli entrant –Eden Golan –…What to read next: Fatties for a Free Palestine | Tertiary degrees in Intifada | Time to call out the Panda-huggers | Explaining vaccine hesitancy
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One aspect of life that keeps me awake at night is my concern that our readers who do not live in Victoria are missing out on news of the momentous events that take place on a daily basis in our state
Is it possible to be simultaneously entertained and depressed? Well, yes. Just try living in New Zealand in 2024. The entertainment comes courtesy of that most sanctimoniously virtuous of parties
The best thing that can be said about the 2024 Victorian Budget is that it’s not as bad as recent…What to read next: Victoria’s Budget reveals a state strangled by Labor | How smarter tax cuts will boost the budget | To stock the book or not? | Campus sit-ins
On too many fronts, our civilisation and our decency are crumbling before our eyes. The beauty, of course, of the…What to read next: Vehicle metaphors | Coalition must U-turn on X | Stabbings in Sydney | Wong again
The Great Artesian Basin of Queensland, New South Wales, the Northern Territory and South Australia is the largest groundwater basin…What to read next: Tory voters on strike | Quantum delusions | Return of the MFP | Oppression, dispossession and massacres
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Does anyone remember the Multifunction Polis? It was doing the rounds in the late 1980s, sponsored by Labor industry minister,…What to read next: Tory voters on strike | Quantum delusions | Trump versus Biden | Even Bernie Fraser thinks it’s a dumb idea
Here at the Spectator Australia Political Research Institute we have been grappling with the most contentious issue that is currently …What to read next: Brown Study | Brown study | Brown study | Brown study