Questions not asked
The questions put to Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the National Press Club this week, lobbed at him with all…
Cover 29 January 2022 AU
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Don’t go woke, go for broke
With Australia Day vanishing in the rear-view mirror and most of the nation learning to live with Covid, the stage…
Cover 22 January 2022 AU
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We can’t rejoice until we’re free
On 1 January last year the words of the national anthem were changed, purportedly to make them more inclusive. Instead…
Cover 15 January 2022 AU
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Don’t turn tennis into Tampa
Not since the deportation of Joe Cocker in the dying days of Billy McMahon’s government has there been a celebrity…
Cover 8 January 2022 AU
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Reviving Australian liberalism
New Year is a time for resolutions and for reflecting on the year passed. After the last two years of…
Cover 18 December 2021 AU
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Three pictures of a Covid year
As 2021 drew to an end, the quest for the Speccie Christmas Special front cover began. How best to sum…
Cover 11 December 2021 AU
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Dear Dom (versions A and B)
At some point during this week, an unvaccinated person will stroll into a newsagent in New South Wales to buy…
Cover 4 December 2021 AU
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Bullies and trolls
‘I have a record of standing up to those who will seek to threaten Australia’s interests, whether they’re outside this…
Cover 27 November 2021 AU
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Conservative populists
‘Disgusting right-wing nut-jobs’, ‘rebels’, ‘populist conservatives’ and of course ‘anti-vaxxers’. These are just some of the politer insults being hurled…
Cover 20 November 2021 AU
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A glorious coalition of conservatives
As Scott Morrison sets up the idea of ‘who do you trust?’ as his 2022 election theme, and in doing…
Cover 13 November 2021 AU
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Are we free yet?
There were some fine words from the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, this week when he spoke in Melbourne to a…
Cover 6 November 2021 AU
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By the book
As Scott Morrison gallivanted on the Glasgow stage this week, rubbing elbows (literally) with the likes of Joe Biden, Boris…
Cover 30 October 2021 AU
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All for nothing
Perhaps a future synonym of ‘net zero’ will be ‘all for nothing’. For surely that is what the last three…