Power without responsibility
Stanley Baldwin is remembered for saying ‘power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot through the ages’. Baldwin meant…
Kenneth’s bank job
Bank bashing is a national pastime in Australia and the proliferation of parliamentary inquiries into financial services – there have…
A chink of Newspoll light
Prime Minister Scott Morrison must be wondering what he did right. This week’s first Newspoll of the year has Bill…
Silence of the Lambassador
It’s beyond embarrassing, it’s humiliating. But more importantly, it is the perfect metaphor for how the values of mainstream Australia…
The real dangers of Labor
Four months out from a likely election day, the Australian Labor Party is sitting pretty. The polls have Labor commandingly…
Australian letters
Shakespeare in love Sir: James Allan (“Australian Notes”, The Spectator, Australia Jan 5) correctly identifies the paucity of knowledge of…
Free speech beached
Let’s start by stating the bleeding obvious. The organisers of any ‘right-wing’ rally that allow or fail to prevent a…
ScoMo’s last chance
As election year dawns, polls point to a looming Coalition electoral catastrophe at the hands of Bill Shorten and Labor.…
PM’s Christmas gifts
As we settle back for the unique delights of the Aussie Christmas, placing the pressies under the Chrissy tree and…
Let there be light
Light, or enlightenment, is a metaphor for so many optimistic, positive and critical components of our humanity, and of our…
Last Quango in Paris
This week, the world’s climate-obsessed leaders meet in Katowice in Poland in a desperate attempt to put teeth into the…
In praise of the PM
Don’t sign! warned our editorial on this page last week. Our readership may not match that of the the daily…
Don’t sign
If, as seems to be reliably reported, the Morrison government has decided both to sign up next month to the…
Hail to The Chief
The US mid-term elections are the most important in recent history and not just for Americans. Since 1788, Australia has…
Stand for something, ScoMo
Prime Minister Scott Morrison may be bruised by Malcolm Turnbull’s bile-laden farewell present, the Wentworth by-election. But this atypical Turnbull-loving,…
All trick, no treat
The election to parliament of the ghoulish political figure of Dr Kerryn Phelps on the eve of Hallowe’en seems, alas,…
Bill Shorten, drunken sailor
When Bill Shorten tried to make Question Time hay of Malcolm Turnbull’s political demise, to gales of backbench laughter Prime…
Scott, don’t go to Poland
This week’s IPCC report, with yet another deadline for action to avert climate ‘catastrophe’, deserves push-back from Australia. Instead of…
Australian letters
Climate wars Sir: Your editorial about a cold September and global temperature change since 2015 is pure rubbish. A quick…
Juvenile and clueless
‘Juvenile and clueless’ is how the Australian’s esteemed Editor-at-Large Paul Kelly deems the suggestion by Liberals and conservatives (including many…
Aunty’s dropped her bloomers
There’s delicious irony in sacked managing director of the ABC, Michelle Guthrie, being replaced by a man. Having pursued the…
Australian letters
Flying circus Sir: Congratulations on 10 years of The Speccie Oz. As you note in your editorial, your contributors have…
Turnbull’s Costa Concordia
In 2012, the liner Costa Concordia struck a rock just off the Italian coast. The huge ship capsized and sank,…
Turnbull’s political suicide
The Canberra press gallery can’t work out why their favourite Liberal is no longer prime minister because they have almost…
Australian Letters
Perhaps Sir: The editorial marking the 10th anniversary of the Australian edition (September 8) salutes the leading contributors. Less than…
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