Flag-burning justifies audits of funding for activist groups

If activists don't want the Australian state, then we need to ensure they are not benefiting from it.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Flag-burning justifies audits of funding for activist groups.

Taxpayer money should not be spent on activist groups, projects, or individuals who promote division, decolonisation, or seek to divide Australia along racial lines.

They can do that on their own dime.

It is not an appropriate use of taxpayer money. And yes, it's a lot of… pic.twitter.com/4TLcsNi4yx

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) January 27, 2026

Silvertail Liberals are up against sons and daughters of Anzacs

The Liberal Party thinks that changing their leader is going to fix the party’s problems.

Anthony Albanese is having a field day. The worst Prime Minister in Australian history is getting away with incompetence because his complete rock-show of a circus has been overtaken by the Liberals’ own clown show. It’s been happening for years, and the faceless machine-men and their turkeys are all coming home to roost. Even the ABC’s former chief leftologist has gleefully come out of retirement to tell us that, historically, One Nation’s surge hurts the Coalition most.

The problem with this idea is its premise. Once the Coalition finds its feet, it can turn back the tide … but that is nonsense.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Silvertail Liberals are up against sons and daughters of Anzacs.

Sussan Ley might as well be Albanese’s deputy. Andrew Hastie said what conservatives wanted to hear, then backed the government and then roused on his no-longer adoring followers after doing the opposite of what he said he’d do. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price explained that she missed… pic.twitter.com/RaWVTzebho

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) January 24, 2026

Albo delivers ‘dog’s breakfast’, claims antisemitism wasn’t Labor’s fault

Albanese’s dog’s breakfast of a Bill will NOT protect Australians from home-grown terrorist attacks.

From the Parliamentary Press Gallery: Following yesterday’s shemozzle, and after a good night’s sleep, I rode my new scrambler into Parliament House just in time to get the very last motorcycle parking space. All eyes were on the Albanese government as the failed omnibus bill was split into two distinct bills, one for hate speech and one for gun laws.

You can’t make up the stuff that happens in Parliament. I often think those among us who are cynical about politics have every right to be. But don’t take my word for it, ask One Nation.

Senator Pauline Hanson won’t be in the debate that will run late tonight because she is banned from the Senate for warning about Islamist extremism. That’s right, protesting the ideology that inspired the murder of 15 Australians is the reason Senator Hanson is not allowed to vote on the laws designed to stop Islamic terrorism in Australia.

In the Morning Double Shot newsletter. Terry Barnes wrote:

The Albanese hate speech and hate groups bill has passed in federal parliament, as has the now-separate gun control and buyback bill. All done in just one day. The Nationals supported neither bill, making Sussan Ley look an isolated and feeble an Opposition and Coalition leader – which she is. She effectively gave Anthony Albanese a get out of gaol free card, while angering half her MPS and getting two fingers from the Nats. If the knives aren’t being sharpened for Ley now, they soon will be. The only performance more shambolic than hers this week was Albanese’s. Michael de Percy was ringside to the whole sorry show yesterday, and wrote this wrap.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Albo delivers ‘dog’s breakfast’, claims antisemitism wasn’t Labor’s fault.

Senator Pauline Hanson won’t be in the debate that will run late tonight because she is banned from the Senate for warning about Islamist extremism.

That’s right, protesting the ideology that inspired the murder of 15 Australians is the reason Senator Hanson is not allowed to… pic.twitter.com/ElqI45fe98

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) January 20, 2026