The great English novelist Charles Dickens, based on his experiences, had a very dark view of lawyers and the legal system generally. In his novel, Oliver Twist...
In the Irish stronghold of south-west Victoria, St Patrick’s Day is a notable date on the celebration calendar. Danny Boy goes to the top of the...
In just days, the architect of one of the worst chapters in the life of Victoria (outside of war and the Great Depression) returns from three...
A story has surfaced about a prostitute in Adelaide who alleged she was raped after a male client removed his condom without consent during sex. The woman...
The SpecOz has already registered disgust at New Zealand male-born Laurel – formerly Gavin – Hubbard’s selection in the Kiwi Olympic team as a female weightlifter,...
Something strange is happening to the Liberal Party in South Australia, long captured by the ascendant so-called “moderate” faction, led at state level by Premier Steven...
Did you see the recent Pew surveys in the United States about Twitter? Twitter users make up under a tenth of the voting population. Those Twitter...
Male-born Laurel Hubbard’s admission to the women’s Olympic weightlifting competition as a representative of New Zealand is, of course, absurd. What meaning and sense of achievement...
This week has proved the National Party leadership is a poisoned chalice, even when someone hasn’t been leader for years. Within days of each other, John...
It’s no surprise Inclusive Australia’s 2020 ‘Measuring Social Inclusion’ survey discovered 3 out of 5 respondents “believed that White Australians were the victims of discrimination to some...