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Rudd fancies himself as Metternich The latest edition of Foreign Affairs, the American foreign policy journal, contains yet another article…
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If Australia had not been blessed with its small black community, we would have had to invent them. And we…
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Here at the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) we pride ourselves on the laser-like scrutiny we give to…
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Fortunately, I came clean long before the US election and said that Trump would lose and probably should. It became…
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Scott Morrison must have taken leave of his senses. His change to the national anthem, to delete ‘we are young…
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Here is a rag bag collection of events and attitudes of the last twelve months. As we used to say…
Australian notes
Covid-19 and anti-Semitism In the face of rising anti-Semitism in Australia and the disruptive economic and social impact of Covid-19,…
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I am glad that at long last the ABC has exposed the toxic sexual atmosphere that exists in Parliament House,…
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The Spectator Australia Diplomatic Research Unit has laboured away in secret for years on projects too sensitive to mention in…
Australian notes
The ten per cent One of the chief complaints of the – now almost forgotten – Occupy Wall Street movement…
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I suppose two fundamental departures from traditional Liberal party positions in a week or so is about par for the…
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The nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court is a sensible one. She must have a…
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Here at the Spectator Australia Biological Research Unit, together with our research partners at the Wuhan Bat, Rat and Snake…
Australian notes
18C on steroids The idea that a sitting Tasmanian senator can be dragged before the state Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for her…
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Say what you want to about them, but I like pandemics. I particularly like Covid-19. Sort of. What I mean…
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You really have to live in Melbourne to appreciate the depressing and disturbing atmosphere that embraces it at the present.…
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Mike Carlton does not deserve his gong Welcome to modern Australia, where encouraging the strangulation of women, calling them crazy,…
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In this dull, dispiriting time we have to get our humour where we can find it, no matter in how…
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The Spectator Australia has always prided itself on being first with the news. However, there is one publishing milestone we…
Australian notes
Our threatened eco-system A fragile, irreplaceable eco-system is threatened and not a single environmentalist has raised their voice in protest.…
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Well, Arthur Sinodinos turned out to be a damp squib, as I predicted. It was bad enough to denigrate the…
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I don’t like praising politicians, but I feel Scott Morrison and his colleagues and even the premiers have been treated…
Latham’s law
Worried about Covid or skyrocketing unemployment? Maybe you’ve lost your job or your business has had to close? Worry no…
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The Spectator Australia Literary Investigations Unit is renowned for uncovering many long-lost masterpieces, but few match the significance of its…
Latham’s law
Karl Marx was right about one thing. Throughout history, the ruling ideas of society have been the ideas of the…
