Columnists Australia

Simon Collins

25 November 2017 9:00 am

While Tinseltown gets on with outing the sex pests in its senior ranks it’s too soon to say if it…

Australian notes

18 November 2017 9:00 am

The Bennelong bedwetter Some say that this innovative and agile Team Turnbull government continues to go from strength to strength.…

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11 November 2017 9:00 am

Western Civilisation Of late, Western Civilisation has been copping a lot of flack. It seems that the West is to…

Australian notes

4 November 2017 9:00 am

John Howard and the black hand It is not particularly far-fetched to claim that the Liberal Party is in big…

Simon Collins

28 October 2017 9:00 am

In a couple of weeks we’ll know whether the last 5 million votes in the same-sex marriage postal survey confirmed…

Australian Notes

28 October 2017 9:00 am

Four pillars of the Museum   Bob, my husband of more than half a century, was born in Tsing Tao,…

Australian notes

14 October 2017 9:00 am

Black-on-black hate The problem of violence in Aboriginal communities is well known to anyone with an interest in Aboriginal affairs.…

Brown study

14 October 2017 9:00 am

There was something touchingly naïve about the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear…

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14 October 2017 9:00 am

Bugger off, Boris I observed, in this illustrious journal, on 5 March 2016 that, if Brexit succeeded, Boris Johnson could…

Brown study

7 October 2017 9:00 am

I have been making a sort of trial balance on the same-sex marriage campaign; not the nitty gritty of the…

Brown study

30 September 2017 9:00 am

Here at the Spectator Australia Electoral Reform Unit we are pressing on with our major project to improve the electoral…

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23 September 2017 9:00 am

Black lives matter Black tennis player Sloane Stephens won the recent US Open. She beat Venus Williams in the semi-final.…

Brown study

16 September 2017 9:00 am

What an amazing contrast. Here I am in Bayreuth, Bavaria, to see Richard Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle, probably the greatest…

Simon Collins

16 September 2017 9:00 am

Hate gets a bad rap these days. Children are taught that they mustn’t hate each other, divorcees are counselled not…

Australian notes

2 September 2017 9:00 am

Would Bill Shorten’s plan for government take Australia in the direction of East Germany, as Finance Senator Mathias Cormann has…

Australian notes

26 August 2017 9:00 am

Shorten must be stopped For once, Malcolm Turnbull’s current travails are not all his own fault. The Prime Minister could…

Australian notes

19 August 2017 9:00 am

On Noel and Richo Last week in the Australian Noel Pearson wrote a piece responding to Graham Richardson’s earlier claim…

Brown study

19 August 2017 9:00 am

You might think that with the nation mesmerised by the proposal to legalise marriage between consenting New Zealand sheep farmers,…

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19 August 2017 9:00 am

LGBTI marriage is not a right. LGBTI marriage is not a right, but freedom of religion, or freedom to disagree…

Australian notes

12 August 2017 9:00 am

On my first visit to Darwin twenty odd years ago to cover the annual Aboriginal art awards a number of…

Brown study

12 August 2017 9:00 am

I was absolutely thrilled to read that Senator Arthur Sinodinos will not be prosecuted by the New South Wales  Independent…

Simon Collins

12 August 2017 9:00 am

Perhaps there were plans for some tax-payer-funded, public service web content with a catchy, kid-friendly slogan: ‘From eleven to three,…

Australian notes

5 August 2017 9:00 am

Inequality is the human condition, Bill   Whaddaya mean by ‘tackling inequality’, Bill? Don’t you know that inequality is built…

Australian notes

29 July 2017 9:00 am

Sensible centre is for suckers   I am going to point to the US, the UK and modern mainstream protestant…

Brown study

29 July 2017 9:00 am

I am indebted to the public-spirited citizen who sent me the charter drawn up by Male Champions of Change and…