Rowan Dean's election comment
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...
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
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
As we advised recently, the editor of Flat White Christian Kerr passed away in his sleep a fortnight ago. Christian’s…
Vale Christian Kerr
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
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
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
The Australian Labor Party has now adopted former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘unconditional recognition’ of Palestine as well as…
Vale, Giles Auty
It is with great sadness that we must inform SpecOz readers that the wonderful Giles Auty passed away last week…
Fire up your writing engine – and win five grand
Theme: ‘…or forever hold your peace’. It is with great delight that we announce the sixth annual Spectator Australia Thawley…
2018 Thawley Essay Prize winners
It is with great delight that we announce the winner and the runner-up of the 2018 Spectator Australia Thawley Essay…
Rowan Dean: I predicted all along that Morrison would win
The Coalition has been returned to government. Bill Shorten lost the “unlosable” election and Scott Morrison won – funnily enough,…
The Lion, the Witch & the Closet
With impeccable timing, increasingly-eccentric Defence Minister Christopher Pyne this week leapt out of some bizarre theological closet to declare that…
Fire up your writing engine – and win five grand
Due to popular demand, the deadline has been extended to 5 January 2019
The Spectator Anglo-Australia Forum
The Aussie sun shone down over a glistening Sydney harbour only metres from where the First Fleet landed back in…
A fight for the heart and soul of the Liberal Party
Choosing between Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison as to whom should lead the Liberal party is the most significant decision…
2017 Thawley Essay Prize winners
It is with great delight that we announce the winner and the runner-up of the 2017 Spectator Austraia Thawley Essay…
#TrumpsAussieMates
Appearing on Lateline the other night as the only Trump supporter the ABC producers could find willing to predict a…
Is Kevin putting his book together? Some clairvoyance from the editor
You can always tell when someone has finally had enough of their job and is desperate to get the hell…
Discover your inner writer – and win five grand
Calling all entries for The 2016 Thawley Prize
Turnbull – all for nothing by Richard Ferguson
Imagine you’re Malcolm Turnbull for a second (you might need to see a psychiatrist after the exercise). You have destroyed…
Former Australian PM John Howard backs Brexit
Speaking at a private Liberal Party fundraiser in Sydney on Wednesday night, Australia’s second longest serving Prime Minister, John Howard,…
Shorten comes clean
The Labor leader clears his name
Sicilian Diary
Most of my dealings with the mafia — to the best of my knowledge — have been pleasant ones. Visiting…
How Kevin Rudd nearly destroyed Labor
With the release of the ALP’s 2013 election review, it’s safe for the nation’s educators to set the record straight
