Where’s wisdom gone?
At what point did the West, including Australia, abandon common sense and reason in favour of decision-making worthy of the…
Cover 30 May 2020 AU
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Coalition’s slow boat
‘That is my job, to bring everybody together,’ explained Scott Morrison to the Canberra Press Bubble who were anything but…
Cover 23 May 2020 AU
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Unbreakable
It was only nine months ago, but it seems a world away. On 4 August, 2019, on a mild winter’s…
Cover 16 May 2020 AU
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Coughing fit
Well might the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg choke on his words in parliament when detailing the horrendous debt currently being imposed…
Cover 9 May 2020 AU
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Get back to where we once belonged
‘Want to go to the footy? Download the app.’ tweeted Health Minister Greg Hunt on 2 May, speaking to Australians…
Cover 2 May 2020 AU
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It’s the economy, covid!
Perhaps more than any other magazine, The Spectator Australia was horrified by the Turnbull coup. The real one, that is,…
We are not Anzacs in this crisis
One hundred and five years ago today, our boys stormed the barren shores of Anzac Cove. For all the Victoria…
Cover 25 April 2020 AU
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Cover 18 April 2020 AU
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Kangaroo court
In his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King wrote: ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’ This has…
Cover 11 April 2020 AU
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Wheels fall off Pell’s tumbril
As in a bombardment on a strategically crucial target, all the big guns were firing. And great was the rejoicing…
Cover 4 April 2020 AU
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Go in hard, get out fast
It remains to be seen whether the actions taken by the Morrison government in the last two weeks will have…
Cover 28 March 2020 AU
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Recalibrate Australia
All pay rises for public servants to be frozen until after the pandemic is over! Shock horror! Hospitality industry unions…
Apoxalypse now
Last week we asked whether Scott Morrison and the Australian medical authorities would learn the lessons of Italy and impose…
Cover 21 March 2020 AU
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Cover 14 March 2020 AU
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Coronavirus confusion
With people swarming the aisles of our supermarkets grabbing every multipack of dunny paper they can lay their hands on,…
