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
Dinner party anti-Semitism
Even otherwise intelligent and normal people will often reveal their hatred over a few glasses of wine
Europe needs a Tony Abbott
What Australia can learn from the EU, and vice-versa
A PR guide to selling a budget
The problem with the government’s fiscal agenda isn’t that it’s too mean; it’s that it remains too confusing
An extravagant entitlement
Abbott’s Paid Parental Leave? A self-inflicted disaster
Climate change, the movie
The latest IPCC trilogy has taken lessons from Hollywood
Diary
I’ve recently rediscovered the lost, forbidden pleasure of the smoko. My earliest memories of enjoying a smoko were back at…
Under the house with Hergé
Could my signed copy of a famous adventure comic book be worth a king’s ransom?
Black armband
The first ever footy-playing Australian of the Year is ashamed to be an Australian
Satirising anti-Semitism
Are some subjects too absurd to be made fun of?
