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This summer, Australians of all backgrounds and ethnicities must ask themselves whether the great Australian dream of multiculturalism has failed.…
2024: A year of missed opportunities for energy and the …
4 days ago · Equally concerning is the government’s reluctance to even consider carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) technologies – solutions that countries like Norway are employing to reduce emissions, and other countries like the US and Canada already benefit from. This technology can reduce emissions from hard-to-abate industries, yet it remains ignored in the Australian conversation.
Australia’s never-ending recession | The Spectator Australia
Dec 14, 2024 · The recession of 2023-24 is the longest per-capita downturn on record, since the Australian Bureau of Statistics started keeping track back in 1973. The latest data released last week shows that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per person has now shrunk for seven consecutive quarters. The second longest ...
Australian diary | The Spectator Australia
It is great to return Down Under after first coming here in 2019 to start trade talks. We closed the deal in 2021 and Australia is now teeming with young Brits on new working holiday visas – no longer having to toil at farms in the Outback as part of the conditions.
Covid Inquiry was not fit for purpose | The Spectator Australia
Nov 6, 2024 · The 868-page report of the official inquiry into Australia’s Covid-19 response, like the inquiry itself, is not fit for purpose. Bottom line: This is a report of, by, and for the public health clerisy. For example, the report recommends that the solution to state overreach and abuse of power during the pandemic is to increase the powers and resources of the same two groups (politicians and ...
Putting faith in fact-checkers is the road to censorship
The IPA analysed 187 fact-checking articles relating to the Voice to Parliament between 22 May 2022 and 14 October 2023. It found an overwhelming 170 articles, or 91 per cent of fact-checks, assessed claims made by opponents of the Voice.
The nuclear disconnect in Australia holds us back
Nov 2, 2024 · A recent Sydney Morning Herald article unfairly attributed Ontario’s $7 billion (CAD) electricity subsidy directly to nuclear energy, framing it as a cautionary tale against adopting nuclear power in Australia. The article failed to explain the subsidy also offset the high costs of long-term renewable contracts established during the …
The misinformation behind the MAD bill | The Spectator Australia
5 days ago · The government’s MAD (misinformation and disinformation) bill has been killed – withdrawn from the Senate in what might have been the last sitting week before the next federal election. The bill, an abhorrent attack on free speech, will not be missed. But that is not to say it …
The Spectator’s new owner – and new era
Sep 10, 2024 · After a year-long auction drama that involved sheikhs and moguls and even ended up changing the law, The Spectator has a new owner. The financier Sir Paul Marshall is to become the magazine’s 14th proprietor.
Pandemic questions that demand answers | The Spectator Australia
Sep 21, 2024 · The Australian people now have two outrages concerning the Covid pandemic. There’s the response to Covid, and there’s the response to the response to Covid, which is one of complete and utter disinterest.