2017 Thawley Essay Prize winners
It is with great delight that we announce the winner and the runner-up of the 2017 Spectator Austraia Thawley Essay…
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#TrumpsAussieMates
Appearing on Lateline the other night as the only Trump supporter the ABC producers could find willing to predict a…
Is Kevin putting his book together? Some clairvoyance from the editor
You can always tell when someone has finally had enough of their job and is desperate to get the hell…
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Calling all entries for The 2016 Thawley Prize
Turnbull – all for nothing by Richard Ferguson
Imagine you’re Malcolm Turnbull for a second (you might need to see a psychiatrist after the exercise). You have destroyed…
Former Australian PM John Howard backs Brexit
Speaking at a private Liberal Party fundraiser in Sydney on Wednesday night, Australia’s second longest serving Prime Minister, John Howard,…
Shorten comes clean
Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten has revealed police have cleared him of an allegation that dates back nearly 61 weeks.…
Sicilian Diary
Most of my dealings with the mafia — to the best of my knowledge — have been pleasant ones. Visiting…
How Kevin Rudd nearly destroyed Labor
Phew! That’s a relief. Labor’s long-awaited review into why it was soundly trounced in 2013 by the hated, reviled, moronic,…
Dinner party anti-Semitism
‘I hate f-—ing Jews!’ screeched one dinner guest, his face contorted in rage only millimetres in front of mine. It…
Europe needs a Tony Abbott
In the frenzied aftermath of his infamous 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, Conservative MP Enoch Powell was asked by an…
A PR guide to selling a budget
‘One: tell them what you’re going to tell them; two: tell them; three: tell them what you just told them.’…
An extravagant entitlement
‘When we lie to ourselves and believe it, truth vanishes and we’re at the negation of the negation,’ wrote Robert…
Climate change, the movie
With the release last week of the exciting third instalment of the mighty IPCC trilogy ‘Assessment Report 5’, it’s clear…
Diary
I’ve recently rediscovered the lost, forbidden pleasure of the smoko. My earliest memories of enjoying a smoko were back at…
Under the house with Hergé
‘Ten thousand thundering typhoons!’ I curse loudly as my head crashes into a concrete beam in the darkness. I’m deep…
Black armband
Adam Goodes does not deserve to be Australian of the Year. The appointment was questionable in the first place, but…
Satirising anti-Semitism
The scene: a redneck bar in Tuscon, Arizona. Sacha Baron Cohen, under the pseudonym of ‘Arote and his Cowboy Astana…
An Aussie wolf on Wall Street
We turned up, drunk, to the Porsche showroom and demanded to test-drive the new Carrera Turbo. No doubt the salesman…
Rolf and Operation Gumtree
Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris is believed to have pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of embarrassing a large amount of…
Diary
‘A bunch of Y-front wearing pansies’ is how one of my conservative friends describes the Abbott government. It’s an interesting…
Speccie scoop: Snowden files in full
In a world exclusive, The Spectator Australia today publishes highlights of the remaining 19,999 files of Australian intelligence stolen by…
Notes from a Media tart
One of the drawbacks of writing for a magazine as esteemed as the Spectator Australia is that you are assumed…
End of McTernanism
Last weekend in Canberra a murder took place. It was no ordinary killing. In fact, it involved a horribly painful…
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