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Flight risk
Seasoned air travellers are familiar with the sight of a swarm of masked and gloved cleaners waiting to rush on…
Australians must vote No
‘I don’t think it’s a good idea and if it were put up in a referendum it would go down…
Intellectual child abuse
One in three Australian school children, according to the latest Naplan results, are falling well behind in literacy and numeracy.…
Turn back the Wokes
Australians live in a dangerous era. The Prime Minister of the day, a communist sympathiser in his youth, wishes to…
Albo’s fake truth-telling
As this magazine has pointed out, and not always tongue-in-cheek, wait long enough and today’s vehemently denounced conspiracy theory is…
Self-harming the nation
As usual, it takes John Howard to cut to the chase with one pithy comment, in this instance on the…
Chalumbin, the New Franklin
Four decades after the battle for the Franklin Dam, a contest between nature and industry is underway in the high…
Acma dynamite
If you thought the Covid era was bad, just wait for the New Acma era to begin! Acma is of…
Free speech dying
In many ways the federal government’s proposal for Acma to regulate the content of social media platforms – via the…
Climate cringe
The famed ‘cultural cringe’ of the Sixties and Seventies was exacerbated by the realisation that most artistic and fashionable trends…
No
‘Just say No,’ was the catchphrase of Nancy Reagan back in the 1980s. The slogan was used to encourage people…
Coal is a four-letter word
Coal is a four-letter word for Labor/Green governments in Australia where it can’t be used in polite company. Thank goodness…
In the dark
Three things can be safely said about the entire Brittany Higgins affair. Firstly, the average punter has no idea where…
Garlic-19
A report by the Peter Doherty Institute suggests that good old Aussie garlic is good for warding off the coronavirus.…
‘From red tape to red carpet’
In this week’s issue, we are delighted to hear from Gina Rinehart on the importance of mining to not only…
Expelling Moira
The expulsion of Moira Deeming from the Victorian Liberal party requires one simple question to be answered: what is the…
Joke budget
Treasurer Jim Chalmer’s 2023 federal budget is a wicked joke being played upon the average Australian household, replete with fantasy,…
A King’s welcome
This magazine supports our constitutional monarchy and thus naturally delights in the spectacle of the coronation. Our constitutional monarchy, the…
A conservative contrarian
Sensibly, the late Barry Humphries allowed the political leanings of himself and his alter-egos to remain camouflaged within their biting…
Watershed
What delicious timing. In the same news cycle that Peter Dutton announces the re-launch of the Coalition and his determination…
Mr Neil’s visit
The visit to these shores, the furthest-flung and smallest outpost of the transatlantic Spectator empire, by our chairman Andrew Neil,…
Making Donald Great Again
The news that a ‘kangaroo court’ has decided to charge Donald Trump with a pile of spurious charges from many…
Climate wars rekindled
So, apparently the climate wars aren’t over quite yet. Thank goodness for that! That’s not us rekindling the battle, by…
Clown show
From preposterously clownish Nazis to battery-powered campaign buses that have to be ditched in favour of diesel alternatives, the political…
Once upon a time
Once upon a time there lived a generation who believed they knew far more about the world than their elders…
