Rowan Dean: ‘What is Woke?’
I’ve always fancied myself as one of those Christmas Cracker riddle writers – what a great job that would be……
Barry Humphries and ‘The Speccie’
‘But is it publishable, Rowan?’ That was the last exchange I had with Barry Humphries, on the phone earlier this…
Conservative Australians should be very angry
John Howard was a conservative. He won, again and again and again. Tony Abbott was a conservative. He won a…
Rowan Dean: We don’t need a Voice because we already have one
As readers know, I occasionally like to be the bearer of good news and today I am delighted to tell…
Vale, great soldier
Along with the rest of Australia, I awoke this morning to hear the news of Senator Major-General Jim Molan’s passing…
Vale Her Majesty The Queen
The Spectator Australia is deeply saddened and shaken by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at 96 after…
Giving racism an Aussie voice
Our beloved country under Labor’s proposed ‘Voice’ will become one gigantic apartheid state. Australia will boast apartheid and racial segregation…
The bastards of Australia’s pandemic tyranny
The behaviour demonstrated by political leaders and public health officials within Western democracies will linger to their eternal shame. There…
BoJo – the schizophrenic conservative
Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Boris was a great friend of Australia who even spent…
Rowan Dean’s election comment
Scott Morrison and the Coalition did not lose government last night. They lost it on November 1 last year, when…
My questions for the Royal Commission into Covid…
Senator Pauline Hanson has been pushing for a Royal Commission into the government’s handling of Covid, and demand for one…
Christian Kerr’s funeral – livestream
Christian Kerr’s funeral is being livestreamed today. Service at 11 am. Click on the link below to watch: https://livestream.com/accounts/8710393/events/10002428 Got…
Christian Kerr’s funeral
As we advised recently, the editor of Flat White Christian Kerr passed away in his sleep a fortnight ago. Christian’s…
Vale Christian Kerr
It is with profound sadness that I must inform the family of Spectator Australia writers, readers and fans of the…
Woke@work – and joyless, mistrustful, dispiriting and dreary
Just as I was celebrating the fact that in ditching Turnbull from the ridiculous New South Wales climate job the…
Prince Philip, climate sceptic, already spinning in his grave
Prince Philip was a climate change sceptic. In correspondence to Spectator Australia contributor and author Ian Plimer back in 2018,…
Labor loses the Palestinian plot
The Australian Labor Party has now adopted former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘unconditional recognition’ of Palestine as well as…
Vale, Giles Auty
It is with great sadness that we must inform SpecOz readers that the wonderful Giles Auty passed away last week…
Fire up your writing engine – and win five grand
Theme: ‘…or forever hold your peace’. It is with great delight that we announce the sixth annual Spectator Australia Thawley…
2018 Thawley Essay Prize winners
It is with great delight that we announce the winner and the runner-up of the 2018 Spectator Australia Thawley Essay…
Rowan Dean: I predicted all along that Morrison would win
The Coalition has been returned to government. Bill Shorten lost the “unlosable” election and Scott Morrison won – funnily enough,…
The Lion, the Witch & the Closet
With impeccable timing, increasingly-eccentric Defence Minister Christopher Pyne this week leapt out of some bizarre theological closet to declare that…
Fire up your writing engine – and win five grand
Due to popular demand, the deadline has been extended to 5 January 2019
The Spectator Anglo-Australia Forum
The Aussie sun shone down over a glistening Sydney harbour only metres from where the First Fleet landed back in…
A fight for the heart and soul of the Liberal Party
Choosing between Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison as to whom should lead the Liberal party is the most significant decision…
