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ScoMo’s four feathers
As the two sides of politics marshal their forces and prepare to do battle in polling booths across the nation…
ScoMo’s lack of discipline
Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week called for unity within the ranks of the Coalition in order to get his…
Questions not asked
The questions put to Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the National Press Club this week, lobbed at him with all…
Don’t go woke, go for broke
With Australia Day vanishing in the rear-view mirror and most of the nation learning to live with Covid, the stage…
We can’t rejoice until we’re free
On 1 January last year the words of the national anthem were changed, purportedly to make them more inclusive. Instead…
Don’t turn tennis into Tampa
Not since the deportation of Joe Cocker in the dying days of Billy McMahon’s government has there been a celebrity…
Reviving Australian liberalism
New Year is a time for resolutions and for reflecting on the year passed. After the last two years of…
Three pictures of a Covid year
As 2021 drew to an end, the quest for the Speccie Christmas Special front cover began. How best to sum…
Dear Dom (versions A and B)
At some point during this week, an unvaccinated person will stroll into a newsagent in New South Wales to buy…
Bullies and trolls
‘I have a record of standing up to those who will seek to threaten Australia’s interests, whether they’re outside this…
Conservative populists
‘Disgusting right-wing nut-jobs’, ‘rebels’, ‘populist conservatives’ and of course ‘anti-vaxxers’. These are just some of the politer insults being hurled…
A glorious coalition of conservatives
As Scott Morrison sets up the idea of ‘who do you trust?’ as his 2022 election theme, and in doing…
Are we free yet?
There were some fine words from the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, this week when he spoke in Melbourne to a…
By the book
As Scott Morrison gallivanted on the Glasgow stage this week, rubbing elbows (literally) with the likes of Joe Biden, Boris…
All for nothing
Perhaps a future synonym of ‘net zero’ will be ‘all for nothing’. For surely that is what the last three…
How to lose an election
Scott Morrison and the Coalition have a unique opportunity to go to the next election with their own version of…
Roll up
This week, a ‘voluntary assisted dying’ Bill will be presented to the NSW Parliament, following the recent passage of similar…
Crack open the Dom
It’s not often these days that somebody who is a conservative, a Christian and a contributor to this magazine ends…
Australia hurtles off the rails
‘Look what’s going on in Australia right now. After a year and a half they are still enforcing lockdowns by…
Subs deserved to be sunk
The argument put forward by Christopher Pyne and fellow Turnbullites that back in 2016 it was impossible to foresee the…
Glad the Impaler
The New South Wales government press release proudly announcing ‘freedom for the fully vaccinated’ is a document of shame, and…
She’ll get blisters
Yet again this magazine has proven uniquely prescient in its warnings and its advice, a claim that regular subscribers will…
A Farewell to Arms
News that the Biden administration – clearly the most inept group of individuals ever to take up residency in 1600…
Battle lines drawn
Oh, what a difference a week makes! As Australia reaches a tipping point in the number of people vaccinated –…
Chaos foreseen
As Robert Gates, former defense secretary in the Obama administration, once put it, Biden has ‘been wrong on nearly every…
