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Good trouble I arrive in Australia to feverish talk of a rebellion. There has been a ‘teenage revolt’. A mass…
Simon Collins
Last week a friend invited me to the final year art students’ show at the University of NSW. As I…
Simon Collins
In the England of my childhood, greengrocers were heavily reliant on South African farmers. This was still the case when…
Brown study
There was something ritualistic about the latest terrorist outrage in Melbourne. True, it was hideous from the moment that Hassan…
Simon Collins
I don’t know if media coverage of the Geoffrey Rush defamation trial boosted Australian cinema attendances for last week’s simulcast…
Brown study
There was an undesirable intervention this week into the debate about African gangs in Melbourne, namely that a judge thought…
Latham’s law
Sharman Stone is not exactly a household name, not even in her own house. In two decades as a federal…
Brown study
The Spectator Australia Investigative Journalism Unit prides itself in being ahead of other publishers in providing sneak previews of major…
Latham’s law
I’ve found a solution to the world’s problems. We need to get David Duke to say the following words: ‘Political…
Simon Collins
It wasn’t until the mid-1980’s that the party-pooping Ulema shut down Saudi Arabia’s cinemas. So there’s a good chance that…
Brown study
Here at the Islamic Research Bureau in Jeddah, we devote ourselves to unravelling the knottier issues of the law and…
Latham’s law
One of the weaknesses in the Australian education system is a lack of understanding of civics. Teaching children the basics…
Brown study
Alan Jones was wrong to apologise for his interview as part of the Sydney Opera House fracas. Once you apologise…
Brown study
If you would like to save $50, the fastest way of doing so is by not buying Bob Woodward’s biography…
Latham’s law
I love a rollicking book of insults as much as the next person. In typical Australian style they lean towards…
Simon collins
No doubt many Speccie readers took heart from ANU Chancellor Gareth Evans’s recent suggestion that the business of a university…
Brown study
The political world has been consumed by two big issues, one here and one in the US, and I have…
Simon Collins
I am in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to visit my daughter. This is my first visit to the Steel City, so to…
Brown study
The criticism of Peter Dutton over the au pair visas was bizarre in three respects. First, one of the frequent…
Latham’s law
There’s a surprisingly simple way of ending the malaise in Australian politics. Turn off the fast forward button. Everything is…
Latham’s law
It’s the iron law of government administration. After a new bureaucracy is established, initially with limited powers and responsibilities, it…
Brown study
The nomination by President Trump of Brett Kavanaugh as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the USA is very…
Brown study
These days, a trip to Sydney is a great adventure for me and, as our all-wise government has abolished the…
Latham’s law
‘So where the bloody hell are you?’ Lara Bingle beseeched overseas travellers in Scott Morrison’s successful 2006 television ad. Morrison…
Brown study
When Robert Rintoul founded The Spectator in 1828, he began what is now the oldest publication in the English language.…
