Rowan Dean

Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad thanks Australia

21 December 2023 10:04 pm

Ghazi Hamad, leader of the terror group Hamas, appears to have warmly welcomed Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Prime Minister…

It was the Speccie wot won it

21 October 2023 9:00 am

This magazine alone said No to the Voice from the very start

Congratulations Australia!

14 October 2023 11:28 pm

Congratulations Australia. You made the right call. Congratulations to all of you ‘No’ volunteers and voters, and all who ran…

The girl from Sderot

10 October 2023 4:00 am

Israel is at war. In 2014 I visited Israel, thanks to the NSW Board of Deputies and the Australia/Israel and…

How dare you?! Rowan Dean on Noel Pearson’s speech

2 October 2023 3:27 am

We had two speeches recently for the ‘No’ side of the referendum. Warren Mundine’s speech – which was superb. Tony…

Rowan Dean: Government doesn’t work and can’t close ‘the gap’

22 August 2023 4:00 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may not have had time to read the fine print of the Uluru Statement from the…

Shackled to the demons of history?!

10 August 2023 4:00 am

Let’s talk about Captain James Cook. One of the greatest mariners and scientists of all time, Cook arrived on Silver…

Rowan Dean: ‘What is Woke?’

2 August 2023 4:00 am

I’ve always fancied myself as one of those Christmas Cracker riddle writers – what a great job that would be……

Barry Humphries and ‘The Speccie’

24 April 2023 4:00 am

‘But is it publishable, Rowan?’ That was the last exchange I had with Barry Humphries, on the phone earlier this…

Conservative Australians should be very angry

27 March 2023 3:30 am

John Howard was a conservative. He won, again and again and again. Tony Abbott was a conservative. He won a…

Rowan Dean: We don’t need a Voice because we already have one

13 March 2023 4:00 am

As readers know, I occasionally like to be the bearer of good news and today I am delighted to tell…

Vale, great soldier

17 January 2023 2:22 pm

Along with the rest of Australia, I awoke this morning to hear the news of Senator Major-General Jim Molan’s passing…

Vale Her Majesty The Queen

9 September 2022 4:07 am

The Spectator Australia is deeply saddened and shaken by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at 96 after…

Giving racism an Aussie voice

2 September 2022 4:00 am

Our beloved country under Labor’s proposed ‘Voice’ will become one gigantic apartheid state. Australia will boast apartheid and racial segregation…

The bastards of Australia’s pandemic tyranny

23 August 2022 7:00 am

The behaviour demonstrated by political leaders and public health officials within Western democracies will linger to their eternal shame. There…

BoJo – the schizophrenic conservative

8 July 2022 5:00 am

Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Boris was a great friend of Australia who even spent…

Rowan Dean's election comment

21 May 2022 10:10 pm

Scott Morrison and the Coalition did not lose government last night. They lost it on November 1 last year, when…

My questions for the Royal Commission into Covid...

29 January 2022 6:06 pm

Senator Pauline Hanson has been pushing for a Royal Commission into the government’s handling of Covid, and demand for one…

Christian Kerr's funeral - livestream

21 December 2021 10:08 am

Christian Kerr’s funeral is being livestreamed today. Service at 11 am. Click on the link below to watch: https://livestream.com/accounts/8710393/events/10002428 Got…

Christian Kerr’s funeral

16 December 2021 8:19 am

As we advised recently, the editor of Flat White Christian Kerr passed away in his sleep a fortnight ago. Christian’s…

Vale Christian Kerr

4 December 2021 9:00 am

It is with profound sadness that I must inform the family of Spectator Australia writers, readers and fans of the…

Woke@work – and joyless, mistrustful, dispiriting and dreary

12 April 2021 6:06 pm

Just as I was celebrating the fact that in ditching Turnbull from the ridiculous New South Wales climate job the…

Prince Philip, climate sceptic, already spinning in his grave

10 April 2021 3:51 pm

Prince Philip was a climate change sceptic. In correspondence to Spectator Australia contributor and author Ian Plimer back in 2018,…

Labor loses the Palestinian plot

2 April 2021 4:00 am

The Australian Labor Party has now adopted former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘unconditional recognition’ of Palestine as well as…

Vale, Giles Auty

28 September 2020 3:01 pm

It is with great sadness that we must inform SpecOz readers that the wonderful Giles Auty passed away last week…