Das Spectatorfühlung
Perhaps there exists one of those multi-syllable German words that roughly translates as ‘the bitter-sweet feeling one experiences when witnessing…
Cover 4 June 2022 AU
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Hope of the side
It is now abundantly clear that conservatives and a conservative opposition will be essential to prevent Australia becoming a quasi-socialist…
Cover 28 May 2022 AU
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What lies ahead
Well, here we go! Buckle yourselves in tightly because it’s going to be quite the ride. After nine years of…
Cover 21 May 2022 AU
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Pandemic Treaty: sign here?
It beggars belief. After two and a half years in which a cohort of left-leaning politicians, elite bureaucrats, over-zealous health…
Cover 14 May 2022 AU
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Vote carefully, vote wisely
Next week Australians head to the polling booths to elect a new government or to return the old one. With…
Cover 7 May 2022 AU
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Crunch time
It’s one thing for the Reserve Bank board to set monetary policy independent of government. It’s entirely something else when…
Cover 30 April 2022 AU
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Net Zero joins the choir invisible
Senator Matt Canavan, a regular and popular columnist in this magazine, is under attack for having told Australians the truth.…
Cover 23 April 2022 AU
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Supporting Ms Deves
At this election, Australians not only get to decide who governs the nation – Liberals or Labor –but they could…
Cover 16 April 2022 AU
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Easter Bunny
It would be a brave passenger indeed who hopped onto a plane where the pilot hadn’t the faintest clue about…
Cover 9 April 2022 AU
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Where’s the buzz?
Only three Labor leaders since the second world war have won government from opposition; Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Kevin…
Cover 2 April 2022 AU
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Has Josh saved ScoMo’s bacon?
You may not have guessed it from Josh Frydenberg’s speech, dolefully read at the pace of a 45-rpm record played…
Cover 26 March 2022 AU
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Mean boys
‘True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper…
Cover 19 March 2022 AU
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The rope, the chair & the noose
The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed the outlook for the forthcoming federal election. It is unlikely, once the gravity…