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Facing extinction
It’s not only the crazies from Extinction Rebellion who have deliberately buried their heads in the sand lately. So, too,…
Lead on, Libs
Seventy-five years ago this week, a Canberra meeting convened by Robert Menzies decided to establish a new political party, the…
Cold war kowtowing
Beijing’s birthday bash this week provides an unwelcome flashback to the dark days of the Cold War. The depressing spectacle…
Labor’s weapon of mass confusion
By any rational measure, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s state visit to the United States should be judged a success. The…
Conversation stopper
A s heavy snow fell in southeastern Australia this week, for the third time this year, preparations were still underway…
Are you being served?
As Labor politicians dragged their heels back to parliament this week, there are signs of progress through the five stages…
White women on the hook
Martin Niemöller’s famous post-World War II quotation is as poetic as it is heart-breaking, as insightful as it is terrifying.…
ScoMo settles in
It’s Sunday, so it must be Biarritz! Prime Minister Scott Morrison could be forgiven for losing his bearings over the…
Cover girl
It was around three weeks ago that The Spectator Australia’s Mark Powell first broke the story on our online magazine…
CPAC packed out
Some gags you can’t get enough of, and the suggestion by Mark Latham and others that the astonishing success of…
Soya bean diplomacy
‘You can sell your soul for a can of soya beans,’ announced the second most powerful man in the world…
Flat White & the NSW Libs
When a political party ignores its base, it will turn elsewhere. The base, that usually is. But, innovators always, the…
BoJo, ScoMo & Trump
Our heartiest congratulations to Boris Johnson on his elevation from proud and humble editor of this magazine to the prime…
Morrison’s climate challenge
It is unacceptable for the Morrison government to carry on blindly ignoring the mounting evidence that far from being ‘settled’,…
Naidoc’s ‘themes’
It’s Naidoc Week, which is, quote, ‘a time for all Australians to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of all…
Still Laboring under delusions
Six weeks after the federal election, the resumption of parliament has forced Labor to accept the unpalatable truth that it…
From Folau to 18C
‘Folau has criticised not only those who are homosexual, but drunkards, thieves, atheists, fornicators, adulterers and so on. So he’s…
The point of Cory
Writing in the Feb 24, 2018 issue of this magazine, father of the ‘del-cons’ James Allan asked a rather impertinent…
Monash wins the war
On April 3rd, 2018, a group of conservative Coalition backbenchers announced the formation of the Monash Forum. Many dismissed this…
Plots and prayers on a highway to hell
Australia has a new opposition leader and luckily for Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Mr Albanese is already dispensing advice on…
Del-Cons vs Turnbulls
It was the Del-Cons — published in our pages — wot won it and the thumping victory for conservatives at…
We picked it
The Coalition’s election victory may have come as a shock to many, but certainly not to readers of The Spectator…
Smarter than a sea sponge
What a relief. It turns out Democratic representative for New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was just joking when she said in…
Dumb question
The greatest insult imaginable to the intelligence of the average Australian voter was served up the other night by Bill…
Saving the world one Big Mac at a time
For weeks, journalists have pestered Opposition leader Bill Shorten about the cost of his climate policies. At the first leaders’…
