Features Australia
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…
What is the point of Cory Bernardi?
Let me be honest. I don’t really see the point of Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives (‘AC’) party as presently configured.…
Paying for steel jobs
Indian billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is now in the same category as American entrepreneur Elon Musk in that any absurd idea…
Aux bien pensants
Proscribe parallelism not promiscuity By proscribing sexual relations with ministerial staff and through his public moral condemnation of Nationals leader…
Darwin’s puppets
When I was young, like many teenagers, I considered science dull. At a Passover dinner one year, I declared this…
When will they ever learn?
One January morning in 1800, a mysterious being emerged from the woods near Aveyron in France. The size of a…
Is time running out for Western civilisation?
‘What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms yet, but I think I can recognise…
Eyeballing DFAT
The problem with our foreign affairs bureaucracy isn’t just the consistent political correctness and suspicion of the Coalition. Much time…
Harvey Weinstein Syndrome
As with most popular movements, what starts from good intentions frequently spirals out of control – or beyond what its…
Autocues for the clueless
Was anyone really surprised when the factional warlords and powerbrokers in the key NSW division of the Liberal party so…
Burdens of proof and blatant bias
The non-lawyer readers of this fine publication may not be aware of a key premise (really it is a trade-off…
