The Spectator Australia

Dear Sussan

17 May 2025 9:00 am

Congratulations on your elevation to leadership of the Liberal party of Australia. It is a position of great honour, although…

Holy smoke!

10 May 2025 9:00 am

What went wrong? This time a year ago, Peter Dutton and the Coalition were riding high in the polls, still…

Win or lose

3 May 2025 9:00 am

By the time this magazine appears on the newsstands, the results of the Australian federal election will – or at…

Another dud debate

26 April 2025 9:00 am

The third debate between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the man who doesn’t appear terribly hungry to take his job…

C’mon, Dutt Dutt!

19 April 2025 9:00 am

The Coalition can still win. That is the lesson of recent elections in Australia (where the polls have frequently been…

The Dullists

12 April 2025 9:00 am

Has Peter Dutton got what Paul Keating used to describe as ‘the mongrel’ in him? That was the question left…

Mandatory climate laws

5 April 2025 9:00 am

In a must-read article this week, former Liberal party senator and senior advisor to John Howard, Michael Baume, identifies for…

Rooted in failure

29 March 2025 9:00 am

Australia is rooted. That is the message from the Albanese government as it heads towards an election it thoroughly deserves…

Dutton’s referendum

22 March 2025 9:00 am

Long-term readers of this magazine are familiar with a strange tingling sensation that frequently runs up and down the spine,…

Dutton must embrace Trump

15 March 2025 9:00 am

Events over the past few days have shown that the Coalition’s flawed strategy of keeping the Trump administration at arm’s…

Storms ahead

8 March 2025 9:00 am

Unless the predicted Queensland cyclone skewers his plans, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected this weekend to call a federal…

Grand Primary

1 March 2025 9:00 am

No democratic process is perfect. Going back to the ancient Greeks, through the Magna Carta to the US civil war,…

Bullock buckles

22 February 2025 9:00 am

This week’s fraudulent interest rate cut is as good a portent as any for what to expect in the forthcoming…

Hell breaks loose

15 February 2025 9:00 am

The deadline imposed by President Donald Trump, and endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the release of all hostages…

Bowen exposed

8 February 2025 9:00 am

At the Grammy Awards last week, the celebrity rapper Kanye West paraded his Australian wife Bianca Censori along the red…

The final insult

1 February 2025 9:00 am

We all have close friends with whom we occasionally disagree, amicably. And we have friends whom we inadvertently offend from…

Alarming antisemitism

25 January 2025 9:00 am

As the country prepares for Australia Day, many Australians fear what is happening to our tolerant society. It has taken…

Game on

18 January 2025 9:00 am

Australians traditionally consider the country to be on holiday until Australia Day, even if they have to work, but this…

Follow the leader

11 January 2025 9:00 am

Nothing better symbolises the dismal future that Labor and the Greens are preparing for Australia than the warning in a…

The year that woke broke

4 January 2025 9:00 am

The year 2024 will go down in the history books as the year in which Donald Trump triumphed over the…

Fanning the flames

14 December 2024 9:00 am

This summer, Australians of all backgrounds and ethnicities must ask themselves whether the great Australian dream of multiculturalism has failed.…

The Floridian

7 December 2024 9:00 am

Australians of every ethnicity and political persuasion must now face up to the reality that this country is being governed…

Crossroads

30 November 2024 9:00 am

It is hard to work out Labor’s priorities, by which we mean Labor’s priorities in destroying this nation. On virtually…

Climate clown show

23 November 2024 9:00 am

At the time of Labor’s election back in 2022, this magazine raised a few eyebrows by suggesting that the brand…

Albo’s values at war with Trump’s

16 November 2024 9:00 am

This week’s issue is unashamedly devoted to the extraordinary victory of Donald J. Trump over Kamala Harris in a landslide…