It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The Budget is tomorrow week, and Josh Frydenberg has spent much of…
China’s wolf warriors now sound like Q&A panellists – and that’s a real worry
China’s wolf warriors have spent the week snarling away at Australia, but one attack has really stood out. It came…
How the premiers are keeping us at home
Another weekend, another lockdown. Brisbane at the end of March, now Perth. It’s probably only because someone sensible is filling…
Peacock feathers
Spectator readers are a civilised lot, and no doubt their mothers told them “If you don’t have anything nice to…
Beware claims of a gender electoral apocalypse
“Women abandon Coalition in droves“, a headline says in The Australian today. The story covers data from the Australian Leadership…
Sorry, Twits, but Newspoll doesn't mean the PM's swinging in the breeze
It’s bad news for the Morrison Government. Australians have turned, almost everywhere. Just look at the figures below. Interesting poll,…
Ministers are deciding it’s time to teach the Twits a lesson – and about time
Virtually everyone agrees (other than the psychopaths who populate its sewers) — Twitter has led to a coarsening of debate…
Yes, but who employs these staffers in the first place?
So “an emotional” Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said he’s “shocked and disgusted” by the latest lurid and lewd allegations…
No one was saved
“I look at all the lonely people…” Attorney-General Christian Porter is no doubt desperately clinging on to friends, as too…
Mark McGowan, the new Prince Leonard
Keen observers of Australian politics will recall that on January 31 last year, by decree of His Royal Highness, Prince…
Can incumbents lose in the age of Covid-19?
Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan is about smash the opposition in the March 6 state election. A thoroughly iffy, whiffy…
You what, Tanya?
For the Twitterati, it’s just a given. Either Tanya Plibersek or Penny Wong is the righful prime minister. The Twitterati…
The West secedes – from reality
Western Australians go to the polls in just over three weeks tomorrow, and despite the recent lockdown flap, Premier Mark…
James Packer’s slipped Crown: a victim of sleaze – and snobbery
Melbourne legend tells that days before Crown Casino opened senior police visited the next largest gambling place in town, a…
Kevin Andrews’ defeat: a setback for ScoMo at the start of the parliamentary year
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has received an unwanted spanner in the works ahead of Tuesday’s return of parliament with barrister…
The Project’s outrageous anti-Israeli conspiracy mongering
Waleed Aly and his pals at The Project have reached a new low, last night broadcasting a segment blaming the…
Daniel Andrews’ state of disaster
A curfew from 8.00 pm to 5.00 am. A limit on travelling more than five kilometres from your home. An…
We don’t need new ICACs. We need a new political class
Sunlight may be the best disinfectant, but an industrial solvent is even better. And keeping your house clean avoids attracting…
EXCLUSIVE: What you haven’t read about Eden-Monaro and the Labor leadership
Labour appears to have won the Eden-Monaro by-election. Appears to have. That’s about as strong as we can get —…
The ABC of politics
I have never really understood all the criticisms of the ABC and their biases. It is as if people think that the…
EXCLUSIVE: Greens Senator ignores China’s belligerence; calls for cancellation of cooperation with US military during corona crisis
As China denigrates Australia in official state media, slaps restrictions on our exports, refuses to respond to Trade Minister Simon…
George Calombaris: now all too many of those underpaid workers will also soon be unemployed
I love eating out. I love good food, but I hate food wankery. I hate food fads. I hate the…
EXCLUSIVE: There’s no masking it – coronavirus panic is here
There’s no hiding from the truth. Australia is being hit by a fully-fledged panic over the coronavirus — and those…
Tony, Malcolm and Wentworth: the terrible truth
Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull have both got what they wanted. Abbott wanted to damage the party he was angry…
How soon our media forgot last week’s outrage
While we wait to see just who will be prime minister at the end of today (or if we’re heading…
