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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

It was the Hanson wot won it

13 March 2017 1:15 pm

So the WA Liberal Government did a deal with Pauline Hanson and it cost them the election. Right? Labor can’t…

Have we outgrown Yes, Minister?

13 March 2017 8:32 am

Part of the implicit deal between the ruling class and the ruled is that people are willing to overlook moderate…

The bleakest death of the year

12 March 2017 4:18 pm

Once in lower primary school I foolishly played keepies with my favourite marble, a large, sapphire coloured “Tom Bowler”, the…

Thank you, Colin Barnett

12 March 2017 12:27 pm

As the dust settles on the Western Australian election result, let’s not forget that for 8 ½ years Colin Barnett…

Never mind the bollocks, here’s the punk rock right

12 March 2017 8:15 am

The term ‘conservatism is the new punk’ has been thrown around a lot recently. Some have embraced the notion; happy to celebrate…

Is 18c now still just a fringe issue?

11 March 2017 5:33 pm

The sudden death of Bill Leak has been harrowing. You only realise how much you rely on cultural warriors when…

Fight back for Bill with a free speech commissioner

11 March 2017 2:01 pm

The left more than evidently know how to use the power of the state to achieve their political objectives. The…

Goodbye, Uncle Bill

11 March 2017 8:04 am

While Bill Leak’s talents as an artist and satirist are plain to see, the man also had a great gift…

In memoriam: Bill Leak, free speech warrior

10 March 2017 6:14 pm

He wrote about it, talked about, put brush and pencil to paper about it and railed about it with wry…

It’s over

10 March 2017 12:00 pm

The Prime Minister must accept full responsibility for the political predicament facing the government and his leadership. Writing for the…

18c threatens young people

10 March 2017 7:21 am

While much of the debate about section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act has focused on Andrew Bolt and Bill…

Will the government miss another free kick from the union movement?

9 March 2017 6:54 pm

Today thousands of CFMEU members across Australia took the day off work to march in solidarity with retail and hospitality…

The Jews of Asia?

9 March 2017 5:05 pm

For months I have been peddling my vociferous obsession with Korea onto unsuspecting friends and colleagues. What began as an…

Hanson’s apology shows strength, not weakness

9 March 2017 1:46 pm

They’re so busy laying traps for her, and delighting when she becomes ensnared, that leftist bullies are entirely in denial…

Wikileaks, technology and the end of privacy

9 March 2017 7:24 am

I’m neither an IT expert nor an intelligence insider (12 years ago when I was publishing the “Good News from…

Let’s have a day for middle-aged white men

8 March 2017 6:17 pm

So International Women’s Day (aka the ABC’s male presenters’ RDO) has come and gone.  Feminists and social media mavens have…

Pauline Hanson isn’t ripping off Queensland. Canberra’s ripping off the West

8 March 2017 5:30 pm

The accusation by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk that Pauline Hanson is trying to rip $1.6 billion from her home state to send to…

A bitter pils to swallow

8 March 2017 1:01 pm

The Courier Mail reported Monday “One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson is set to embark on another venture, putting her name…

Wellness warriors and the right to be a bloody idiot

8 March 2017 7:26 am

Fringe health and well-being guru David “Avocado” Wolfe is coming to Australia and surprise, surprise there are two separate Change.org…

Pedestrian signals, pedestrian thinking

7 March 2017 5:37 pm

Today it was revealed by the Herald Sun that the Committee of Melbourne in conjunction with VicRoads are installing 10…

March too much (for science)

7 March 2017 12:56 pm

Just days after more than 300 US scientists petitioned President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate change agency (February…

How the left have barred the way for economic reform

7 March 2017 8:07 am

Judging by the despondent state of most Australian economists there’s little prospect coming years will generate much more than continued…

There is no alternative?

6 March 2017 7:34 pm

How many readers believe that any political party in the democratic world can continue to win every single election for…

Advertisement: The Fifth ALS Annual Friedman Conference

6 March 2017 7:10 pm

The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance is delighted to invite readers of The Australian Spectator to the largest centre-right gathering in the…

Brace yourselves for a round of fake ANZAC speeches

6 March 2017 11:51 am

Australians should prepare themselves for an avalanche of fake speeches from our political class as the 75th anniversary of the…