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The Peta Principle
In 1969, Canadian academic Laurence Peter defined what came to be known as the Peter Principle: a person in an…
Speccie vs Stasiland
This week’s budget is a tale of Covid-induced devastation. Instead of being Back in the Black, there is a deficit…
‘Albo’ Andrews
The corona virus has had many unintended and unexpected consequences, with the real damage being not so much the medical…
Say goodbye to freedom
If Victoria avoids becoming a Marxist failed state, it may very well be because of The Spectator Australia’s contributor Ian…
Dog days
‘I feel a bit like a dog returning to eat its own vomit,’ explained Victoria’s Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius, to…
Eureka! Ballarat fights again
How fitting that the clarion call to liberate Victorians from the lunacy of lockdown came forth from Miner’s Rest in…
Victoria’s illiberal democracy
With the acquiescence of a handful of well-intentioned but misguided crossbench MPs, Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews has won his…
Dan vs democracy
When Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says that it is ‘foreseeable’ that a state of emergency could last beyond another 12…
Snapback!
Last week, the United Nations Security Council rejected an indefinite extension of the embargo on the export of conventional weapons…
Stay calm, Gladys
The next few week’s will be the ultimate test of Gladys Berejiklian and her New South Wales Coalition government. Will…
State of disastrous decision-making
Wherever you are on the political spectrum, one word that should strike fear into you is ‘curfew’. Curfews are tools…
Coalition and Cancel Culture
The High Court’s decision on whether or not to give leave to Peter Ridd to appeal his Federal Court loss…
No masking reality
This week, the face of Melbourne literally changed. From last Thursday, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews decreed that all Melburnians must…
Against the grain
‘My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views.’…
HCQ? You read it here first
In the wee small hours before the dawn of the Independence Day holiday weekend, presumably when it hoped no one…
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Could the wheels finally be coming off the greatest hoax of the last fifty years? Is it too much to…
Ditch Paris
It was announced last week that the Minerals Council of Australia has ‘committed to cutting carbon emissions’ and has ‘thrown…
Yay!
‘The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds,’ read the headline…
Double delusions
In a week of absolute madness, it’s hard to know which is the more deranged fantasy: that we can do…
Where’s wisdom gone?
At what point did the West, including Australia, abandon common sense and reason in favour of decision-making worthy of the…
Coalition’s slow boat
‘That is my job, to bring everybody together,’ explained Scott Morrison to the Canberra Press Bubble who were anything but…
Unbreakable
It was only nine months ago, but it seems a world away. On 4 August, 2019, on a mild winter’s…
Coughing fit
Well might the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg choke on his words in parliament when detailing the horrendous debt currently being imposed…
Get back to where we once belonged
‘Want to go to the footy? Download the app.’ tweeted Health Minister Greg Hunt on 2 May, speaking to Australians…
It’s the economy, covid!
Perhaps more than any other magazine, The Spectator Australia was horrified by the Turnbull coup. The real one, that is,…
