Our staffer brats are just part of a deeper political malaise
It’s a pleasant surprise to read “The rise of the staffer brat” and see that at least someone agrees with…
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If Australia had not been blessed with its small black community, we would have had to invent them. And we…
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Here at the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) we pride ourselves on the laser-like scrutiny we give to…
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Fortunately, I came clean long before the US election and said that Trump would lose and probably should. It became…
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Scott Morrison must have taken leave of his senses. His change to the national anthem, to delete ‘we are young…
The Coate Report: This must never happen again. Really?
The Spectator Australia is first with the news. We have proved this time and again. Just yesterday, if proof were needed,…
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Here is a rag bag collection of events and attitudes of the last twelve months. As we used to say…
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I am glad that at long last the ABC has exposed the toxic sexual atmosphere that exists in Parliament House,…
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The Spectator Australia Diplomatic Research Unit has laboured away in secret for years on projects too sensitive to mention in…
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I suppose two fundamental departures from traditional Liberal party positions in a week or so is about par for the…
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The nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court is a sensible one. She must have a…
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Here at the Spectator Australia Biological Research Unit, together with our research partners at the Wuhan Bat, Rat and Snake…
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Say what you want to about them, but I like pandemics. I particularly like Covid-19. Sort of. What I mean…
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You really have to live in Melbourne to appreciate the depressing and disturbing atmosphere that embraces it at the present.…
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In this dull, dispiriting time we have to get our humour where we can find it, no matter in how…
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The Spectator Australia has always prided itself on being first with the news. However, there is one publishing milestone we…
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Well, Arthur Sinodinos turned out to be a damp squib, as I predicted. It was bad enough to denigrate the…
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I don’t like praising politicians, but I feel Scott Morrison and his colleagues and even the premiers have been treated…
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The Spectator Australia Literary Investigations Unit is renowned for uncovering many long-lost masterpieces, but few match the significance of its…
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The Spectator Australia book club has saved our members hundreds of dollars by recommending books that you should not buy…
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‘Daddy, what did you do in the Great Pandemic?’ People are getting ready to answer this question for when things…
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Since my column confessing to a lifetime of white supremacy and worshipping at the altar of colonialism, many readers have…
Brown on white guilt
I can’t sleep because of the guilt. I have not been able to do so since I was 16. That…
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You might think that the law is old, stodgy, stuck in the past and opposed to reform. It is all…
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The Liberal party certainly had a close shave in getting rid of Malcolm Turnbull before the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic hit…
