Columnists Australia

Brown study

9 January 2021 9:00 am

Scott Morrison must have taken leave of his senses. His change to the national anthem, to delete ‘we are young…

Brown study

19 December 2020 9:00 am

Here is a rag bag collection of events and attitudes of the last twelve months. As we used to say…

Australian notes

12 December 2020 9:00 am

Covid-19 and anti-Semitism In the face of rising anti-Semitism in Australia and the disruptive economic and social impact of Covid-19,…

Brown study

12 December 2020 9:00 am

I am glad that at long last the ABC has exposed the toxic sexual atmosphere that exists in Parliament House,…

Brown Study

5 December 2020 9:00 am

The Spectator Australia Diplomatic Research Unit has laboured away in secret for years on projects too sensitive to mention in…

Australian notes

21 November 2020 9:00 am

The ten per cent One of the chief complaints of the – now almost forgotten – Occupy Wall Street movement…

Brown study

10 October 2020 9:00 am

I suppose two fundamental departures from traditional Liberal party positions in a week or so is about par for the…

Brown study

3 October 2020 9:00 am

The nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court is a sensible one.  She must have a…

Brown study

26 September 2020 9:00 am

Here at the Spectator Australia Biological Research Unit, together with our research partners at the Wuhan Bat, Rat and Snake…

Australian notes

26 September 2020 9:00 am

18C on steroids The idea that a sitting Tasmanian senator can be dragged before the state Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for her…

Brown study

19 September 2020 9:00 am

Say what you want to about them, but I like pandemics. I particularly like Covid-19. Sort of. What I mean…

Brown study

12 September 2020 9:00 am

You really have to live in Melbourne to appreciate the depressing and disturbing  atmosphere that embraces it at the present.…

Australian notes

12 September 2020 9:00 am

Mike Carlton does not deserve his gong Welcome to modern Australia, where encouraging the strangulation of women, calling them crazy,…

Brown study

5 September 2020 9:00 am

In this dull, dispiriting time we have to get our humour where we can find it, no matter in how…

Brown study

29 August 2020 9:00 am

The Spectator Australia has always prided itself on being first with the news. However, there is one publishing milestone we…

Our threatened eco-system

29 August 2020 9:00 am

Our threatened eco-system A fragile, irreplaceable eco-system is threatened and not a single environmentalist has raised their voice in protest.…

Brown study

15 August 2020 9:00 am

Well, Arthur Sinodinos turned out to be a damp squib, as I predicted. It was bad enough to denigrate the…

Brown study

8 August 2020 9:00 am

I don’t like praising politicians, but I feel Scott Morrison and his colleagues and even the premiers have been treated…

Latham’s law

8 August 2020 9:00 am

Worried about Covid or skyrocketing unemployment? Maybe you’ve lost your job or your business has had to close? Worry no…

Brown study

1 August 2020 9:00 am

The Spectator Australia Literary Investigations Unit is renowned for uncovering many long-lost masterpieces, but few match the significance of its…

Latham’s law

1 August 2020 9:00 am

Karl Marx was right about one thing. Throughout history, the ruling ideas of society have been the ideas of the…

Brown study

25 July 2020 9:00 am

The Spectator Australia book club has saved our members hundreds of dollars by recommending books that you should not buy…

Latham’s law

25 July 2020 9:00 am

A week ago on this page, courtesy of The Spectator Australia Neil Brown Centre for Shamelessly Cynical and Opportunistic Corporate…

Australian notes

25 July 2020 9:00 am

Takin’ it to the streets Although public protests have exploded in the last few months in some Western countries, there…

Brown study

17 July 2020 11:00 pm

‘Daddy, what did you do in the Great Pandemic?’ People are getting ready to answer this question for when things…