For most people who work at the ATO, chasing tax evaders must be rather boring. They sit at their desks and review tax returns for undeclared income and ineligible deductions, impose penalties when the rules are breached and occasionally face a...
With apologies to WB Yeats and Joan Didion, the lost, snookered souls of the Australian electorate are now slouching, not with intent like Yeats’ beast, towards...
The suspension of English cricketer Ollie Robinson for poor form – not on the field but on Twitter — should fill Australians with hope that we...
Jacinda Ardern believes New Zealand will become a republic. It’s all right, though, because she’s not in a hurry. But then, the Left, with their eye...
As the inimitable Sir Humphrey Appleby once opined, “Minister, two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don’t have to. “And never set up...
If there is one thing that to be learned from NSW in the last 18 months, it is the fact that lockdowns are not required to...
First, they came for the Christians and I complained a bit, then they came for the lesbians and I was relieved, then they came for the...
The Spec Oz has been warning about this. Now it’s official. Scott Morrison stands for nothing. The Sun-Herald and Sunday Age reported yesterday: One Liberal MP,...
The Queensland government is denying vaccinated parents of a newborn the right to see their baby while, at the same time, preparing to send the Premier...
The Ginger and the Whinger have welcomed a daughter into the world, Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. We should all be thanking our lucky stars that they...