Features Australia
The perils of surrendering sovereignty
Britain’s period of surrendering key responsibilities to the European Union is drawing to a close, but the experience serves as…
A new Marshall Plan, please
A Marshall Plan is needed for war-torn South Australia devastated by decades of green warfare and lawfare, welfare, destruction of…
Lesson One: don’t get caught
The dismissal of the FBI’s second-in-charge, Andrew McCabe, was not by President Trump, as several Australian outlets who bothered to…
Love is love, boys
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again flagged his intention to deliver a national apology to the victims of institutional child…
Stuck down a one-way street
Australia is not a racist country. Compared with much of the world, Australia is a paragon of virtue when it…
Trump, the revolutionary
It’s no easy job keeping up with the 45th presidency. Events occur in a perpetual whirlwind. Presently, the shock of…
The fight Conservatives must have
Hands up if you read Paul Kelly in last Saturday’s Australian? He was writing on the state of conservatism in…
To drain the swamp, first pull the plug
It is a striking fact, but little acknowledged, that the Left in this country is largely funded by the taxpayer.…
Three billboards outside Canberra, ACT
Back in 2009, when Malcolm Turnbull lost the federal Liberal leadership, the feisty Bronwyn Bishop said that the members had…
Best practice democracy?
People protesting against both the concept and practice of authoritarian government has now become a worldwide phenomenon. It seems high…
Business/Robbery etc
Bed-wetters are on the move; the federal parliamentary Liberal party’s problem is now a liquid liability in Collins and O’Connell…
Data gold-mining
You’re probably not aware of it, but there is an injustice being perpetrated on every man, woman and child who…
Comfortably dumb
Sanitising a hate-filled political campaign like the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign is difficult. It obviously has repugnant historical parallels…
The Unitary Republic
Should Australia become a republic, it will greatly damage, and possibly destroy, the independence of the States, making nation-wide experiments…
It’s time to begin a Conservative ‘long march’
Conservative thought must be in a bad way indeed when Speccie contributor James Allan advocates that Australian Conservatives must help…
Gays, trans and damned statistics
Australia’s 17th census, conducted in 2016, was the first since the exercise began in 1911 to offer respondents the option…
No sex please, we’re progressive
The Prime Minister’s recent puritanical edicts regarding relationships between ministers and their staff do not have roots in conservative Christianity,…
The inequality of Mercy
Now here’s some news to gladden the heart of everyone who takes the recent Royal Commission’s line in deploring the…
Bonerby, Beetrooter or Barnyard
We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the Australian public in one of its periodical fits of morality. —…
Abbott’s winning agenda
‘The government which stopped the boats can’t slow the planes’, concluded Michael McLaren, the Macquarie Media Network’s rising young star.…
Well out of it
Of all the absurd things that have been said about Brexit, Chris Patten’s comment in his Spectator Australia interview with…
Top three lefty unis
From the sandstones to the concrete monstrosities, Australia’s university students are returning to lecture halls and classrooms in coming weeks.…
Business/Robbery etc
The Turnbull government’s survival depends on a far more serious internal battle than whether Barnaby should keep his fly done…
Bye bye Nats?
Some could use the Barnaby Joyce Affair as an opportunity to kick the National party while it’s down… so let’s…
Minding the gap
Once again the start of the federal parliamentary year has been marked by what has become an annual ritual. The…
