Breaking windows
Smash! Don’t say we didn’t warn you. As one energy-reliant manufacturer after another shuts up shop; as our energy prices…
Cover 22 February 2014 AU
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Creative destruction
In Labor’s telling, the decision by Japanese Toyota executives to pull the plug on their Australian operation is Tony Abbott’s…
Australian letters
Keep the Lord’s Prayer Sir: Chris Ashton has outlined three reasons why recitation of the Lord’s Prayer should be removed…
Cover 15 February 2014 AU
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The trouble with Aunty
The image of the benign, slightly fuddy-duddy old eccentric has been wrong for some time. But in recent weeks, the…
Cover 8 February 2014 AU
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Rogues gallery
There seem to be an awful lot of rogues out there. When it became clear that corruption allegations against former…
Cover 1 February 2014 AU
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Letters
Too right wing Sir: I have been a subscriber to The Spectator since the early Eighties. Like many readers I…
Broken society
The deaths of NSW teenagers Thomas Kelly and Daniel Christie were beyond tragic. The senseless, random nature of the violence…
Cover 25 January 2014 AU
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Very, very effective
The border protection debate is roaring again, and we’re happy to join the fun. One place to start is to…
Cover 18 January 2014 AU
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Cover 11 January 2014 AU
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Climate change jokers
They call it the silly season, when not much is happening in politics, so far-fetched yarns and preposterous anecdotes get…
Cover 4 January 2014 AU
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Abbott’s Christmas renewal
It’s been only three months since Tony Abbott’s decisive victory on 7 September, and already the critics are baying for…
Books of the Year
We asked friends to tell us what they enjoyed reading in 2013
Cover 14 December 2013 AU
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Say it ain’t so, Joe
Under which particular pillow does Joe Hockey hope to find a lazy trillion dollars lurking? That’s the estimated investment Australian…
Cover 7 December 2013 AU
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Stop attacking Aunty
This magazine rarely misses an opportunity to criticise the ABC. So readers may be surprised to find us defending Aunty…
Australian Letters
Soft on crime Sir: One of my favourite Spectator Australia columns is Peter Coleman’s. His insightful and calm articulation can…
A delicate diplomatic dance
‘Few international problems in the postwar period have proved as difficult for Australia as the development of a friendly and…
