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…
#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…
Discover your inner writer – and win five grand
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
The Labor leader clears his name
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
With the release of the ALP’s 2013 election review, it’s safe for the nation’s educators to set the record straight
Dinner party anti-Semitism
Even otherwise intelligent and normal people will often reveal their hatred over a few glasses of wine
Europe needs a Tony Abbott
What Australia can learn from the EU, and vice-versa
A PR guide to selling a budget
The problem with the government’s fiscal agenda isn’t that it’s too mean; it’s that it remains too confusing
An extravagant entitlement
Abbott’s Paid Parental Leave? A self-inflicted disaster
Climate change, the movie
The latest IPCC trilogy has taken lessons from Hollywood
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
Could my signed copy of a famous adventure comic book be worth a king’s ransom?
Black armband
The first ever footy-playing Australian of the Year is ashamed to be an Australian
Satirising anti-Semitism
Are some subjects too absurd to be made fun of?
An Aussie wolf on Wall Street
The new movie resonates with Eighties London adland, albeit in a less cartoonish fashion
Rolf and Operation Gumtree
The UK’s favourite Australian: guilty or not guilty?
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
Stolen intelligence files reveal a bewildering history of clandestine Australian high-tech surveillance operations
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
The upshot from the Gonski drama is that Tony Abbott has killed his own inner spin doctor
Confessions of a climate denier
A mini-tornado hits north Sydney: what on earth can it mean?
