Dob in a servo? How very un-Australian

We would be far better off with a ‘dob in a useless politician’ scheme.

The NSW Labor government has found a new way to distract us from its own failures. It is encouraging the public to ‘dob in’ service stations charging what it considers ‘high’ prices for fuel.

In a move straight out of the Covid-era snitch handbook, motorists are being urged to report servos via the FuelCheck app for alleged price gouging. This is not a tough-on-business policy. It is the politics of incompetent governance dressed up as consumer protection.

And it is utterly un-Australian.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Dob in a servo? How very un-Australian.

In a move straight out of the Covid-era snitch handbook, motorists are being urged to report servos via the FuelCheck app for alleged price gouging.

This is not a tough-on-business policy. It is the politics of incompetent governance dressed up as consumer protection.

And it is… pic.twitter.com/xlMOd86vao

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) April 7, 2026

Our youth are impressionable, but not stupid

The Age of Woke is over and young people know they were lied to...

Let’s be honest. Australia’s young people have been marinated in Woke ideology from the cradle to the doctorate. From childcare centres, where toddlers learn about ‘gender fluidity’ before they can tie their shoelaces, through school curricula that treats Western Civilisation as an original sin, to university faculties that reward grievance studies over rigorous inquiry.

The left has had a captive audience for decades. They’ve been told that feelings trump facts, that capitalism is the root of all evil, and that the only moral posture worth striking is performative outrage. Impressionable? Absolutely. Stupid? Not even close.

The proof is in the polling.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Our youth are impressionable, but not stupid.

Young Australians have realised they were lied to their whole lives by the left-wing machine at the heart of the education system.

Woke virtue-signalling can't pay an energy bill.

A Welcome to Country isn't going to fix social unrest in their cities.

Their diet of… pic.twitter.com/F0rwgMB2lJ

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) April 6, 2026

What did I miss? Australia’s political week in fast-forward

Punters are sick of eating expensive nothing burgers cooked up by these two unoriginal placeholders. 

I missed most of the action while travelling and returned to a Covid re-run of politicians legislating around the edges of a logistical problem. Put it this way, if Labor ran a retail store they’d solve a missing box of stock by restricting trading hours and adding a surcharge to customers wearing shorts. They’d never find the box, but they could tell head office they were ‘doing something’.

Jim Chalmers is ‘doing something’. He’s scribbling ‘fuel crisis’ into the margins of his Budget reform package, nibbling a KitKat while the rest of us brace for new mortgage rates. He’s the only one working hard – and we really wish he’d take a break.

Angus Taylor and the Opposition barely noticed because they were too busy performing ‘last rites’ for the Victorian Liberals. Yes, Moira Deeming may yet keep her seat on the preselection ticket, but there’s a fair bit of blood and embarrassment on the partyroom floor while a few moderate powerbrokers can be heard chanting prayers in the shadows.

My latest edition of What did I miss? Australia's political week in fast-forward in The Spectator Australia.

The week where Anthony Albanese has taken his jerry cans to Asia to 'panic buy' fuel while telling the country 'not to panic'.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Penny Wong joins world leaders in their bid to 'talk' the Strait of Hormuz open and Donald Trump picks off what's left of… pic.twitter.com/u1wJYknv64

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) April 3, 2026