Features Australia
10 years, covered
One of the great joys of editing The Spectator Australia is seeing – late on a Wednesday evening – the…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s the customary corporate cop-out. Big business these days is more risk-averse than entrepreneurial. So the business lobby groups have…
Reincarnation of the elites
Compliant always with John O’Sullivan’s First Law that all organisations not actively leaning right will, over time, become left-wing, The…
Dumping Turnbull
At a funeral, there are those who are in mourning and those who are merely paying their respects. For the…
Honouring Abbott
If Malcolm Turnbull’s mainstream and social media defenders have their way, the parliamentary Liberal party’s mayhem last week will be…
It’s Paris, stupid
A year ago I urged the Liberal National Party to lance the pustule of Paris, proposing at the Queensland LNP…
Turnbull’s ‘progressive’ legacy
In August 2011 the Australian American Leadership Dialogue talkfest convened in Perth and one of its sessions was a panel…
Del-Con Notes
I am outraged to learn you’ve cheated on me, absolutely outraged’, says the husband to his wife. Only the man…
That Jewish problem
I recently wrote of anti-Semitism in the US Presbyterian Church. It would, however, be wrong to suggest this is an…
Police and thugs
Victoria Police has been brought into disrepute lately by unfortunate bureaucratic decisions with tragic political consequences. At first gradual and…
Turnbull’s litany of failures
Turnbull must go. With Abbott, and only Abbott, the Coalition will win in a landslide and save the nation from…
No mandate? No problem
Parliamentary democracy is underrated as a safeguard of personal liberty. From the outside, the perception is that Parliament is mired…
Good Trump, bad Trump
The great Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek said ‘the curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little…
Business/Robbery etc
Continuing Hayne Royal Commission revelations of institutional dishonesty by Australia’s big four banks have not only killed off Malcolm Turnbull’s…
Falling out of love with Jordan Peterson
I was not the only free speech worrier to fall for Jordan Peterson, the Canadian academic who first came to…
National roll of dishonour
In times of crisis, Australians demand leadership, leadership of the quality which that great Roman, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, or that…
Should we bomb Iran?
Clearly, when I say ‘we’, I don’t mean you and me. As a responsible Speccie reader I’m sure you know…
A change of wind
The 2017 Spectator Australia Thawley Essay Prize runner-up
Suffer your children
Of all the green/Left groups badgering schoolkids about human-caused global warming, the most determined is the Australian Academy of Science.…
Dear Jymbo
Dear Jymbo, I am a sad and disgruntled Liberal party member of parliament in Canberra. I thought I was being…
What did you not learn at school today?
It’s hard for a student at university these days, with all the awful things they (that’s the authorised pronoun for…
Sex, lies and fake news
Working in politics teaches you one thing about Australian voters. They despise the political class although not usually their local…
Business/Robbery etc
Pigs might fly – but they will not be Australian porkers (or beef or lamb) flying into the European Union…
Green Climate Farce
Can you feel sorry for a climate bureaucrat? Well I do. Look at my fellow Aussie Howard Bamsey. He’s been…
Anglo-Australian relations, post Brexit
As a new wave of protectionism sweeps across the globe, can Britain and Australia lead a free trade fightback? What…
