Climate change jokers
They call it the silly season, when not much is happening in politics, so far-fetched yarns and preposterous anecdotes get…
Cover 4 January 2014 AU
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Abbott’s Christmas renewal
It’s been only three months since Tony Abbott’s decisive victory on 7 September, and already the critics are baying for…
Books of the Year
We asked friends to tell us what they enjoyed reading in 2013
Cover 14 December 2013 AU
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Say it ain’t so, Joe
Under which particular pillow does Joe Hockey hope to find a lazy trillion dollars lurking? That’s the estimated investment Australian…
Cover 7 December 2013 AU
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Stop attacking Aunty
This magazine rarely misses an opportunity to criticise the ABC. So readers may be surprised to find us defending Aunty…
Australian Letters
Soft on crime Sir: One of my favourite Spectator Australia columns is Peter Coleman’s. His insightful and calm articulation can…
A delicate diplomatic dance
‘Few international problems in the postwar period have proved as difficult for Australia as the development of a friendly and…
Cover 23 November 2013 AU
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Professor Strange-palm
Dinosaurs, disgruntled employees, Chinese spies, Titanic enterprises, JFK rip-offs, unpaid taxes, smacking Senate bottoms, strange circular self-generating taxation schemes and…
Cover 16 November 2013 AU
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Slaying the beast
They stabbed it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast,’ sang the Eagles in ‘Hotel California’.…
Cover 9 November 2013 AU
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Australian Letters
Pilfering politicians Sir: On first reading the article ‘Put the expenses “scandal” in perspective’ (2 November) I was in sleeping-dog-disturbing…
Labor’s penance
And so the sins of the forefathers shall be visited upon the sons, or so it must feel like to…
Cover 2 November 2013 AU
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Grim reading
Left-wing dogma is destroying the literary skills of an entire generation. Such is the depressing conclusion of a recent report…
Cover 26 October 2013 AU
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Do you feel lucky, Bill?
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, ‘Will he really go to a double dissolution?’ Now to tell you the…
Don’t silence Mr Brave
Almost exactly a year ago in these pages we wrote about John Ruddick’s worthwhile efforts to draw attention to the…
Cover 12 October 2013 AU
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Cover 5 October 2013 AU
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Triumph in Jakarta
Walking into the gilt opulence of the ‘Credentials Room’ of the Istana Merdeka palace in Jakarta, our new Prime Minister…
