Features Australia
National roll of dishonour
In times of crisis, Australians demand leadership, leadership of the quality which that great Roman, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, or that…
Should we bomb Iran?
Clearly, when I say ‘we’, I don’t mean you and me. As a responsible Speccie reader I’m sure you know…
A change of wind
The 2017 Spectator Australia Thawley Essay Prize runner-up
Suffer your children
Of all the green/Left groups badgering schoolkids about human-caused global warming, the most determined is the Australian Academy of Science.…
Dear Jymbo
Dear Jymbo, I am a sad and disgruntled Liberal party member of parliament in Canberra. I thought I was being…
What did you not learn at school today?
It’s hard for a student at university these days, with all the awful things they (that’s the authorised pronoun for…
Sex, lies and fake news
Working in politics teaches you one thing about Australian voters. They despise the political class although not usually their local…
Business/Robbery etc
Pigs might fly – but they will not be Australian porkers (or beef or lamb) flying into the European Union…
Green Climate Farce
Can you feel sorry for a climate bureaucrat? Well I do. Look at my fellow Aussie Howard Bamsey. He’s been…
Anglo-Australian relations, post Brexit
As a new wave of protectionism sweeps across the globe, can Britain and Australia lead a free trade fightback? What…
Leadership drought
Water is the very essence of life. As Benjamin Franklin said, its only when the well’s dry that we know…
‘Righto, what’s his name then?’
As he winds down his five-year tenure as an Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane is redoubling the political divisiveness…
Having a list
For the past week I’ve been in my native Canada, aka the epicentre of TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome. In…
Three little words that mean ‘shut up!’
Racist’, ‘sexist’ and ‘phobia’, the last one with various prefixes, are the lexical building blocks of leftist discourse. Three little…
Body parts
Walking around Patricia Piccinini’s Melbourne studio, we could be on a tour at the Natural History Museum. ‘And here we…
OMG! Now the Jews want Israel to be Jewish!
The Information for prospective Australians that I had to master before I became a citizen declared ‘Australia is a secular…
Last chance for the Liberals
If the Liberals go to the next election with Turnbull as leader, they’ll be handing over the government to a…
Anti-‘Zionism’, or just plain old…?
Anti-‘Zionism’ seems to be bustin’ out all over. The Presbyterian Church USA, has become one of the more noisome sinks…
Letter from Munich
As a permanent reminder of the fragility of democracy when put under the combined pressure of economic crisis and populist…
Polishing Maggie’s legacy
Everywhere you look, from the free market to intelligence agencies, core democratic institutions are under attack – be it from…
Peterson’s sin
Last week I wanted to move to a hut in the wilderness, as far away from people as possible. The…
If the Libs don’t represent the right, someone else will
Among political insiders, I detect some relief that the two-party-preferred Newspoll gap between the Turnbull government and the Shorten opposition…
Keep on tweeting, Mr President
Mention One Nation voters in elite circles, and they’ll be dismissed as backward, unsophisticated and easily misled. But when asked…
Where have all the engineers gone?
When the Chifley Government, in 1948, decided to implement a scheme to harness the waters of the Snowy Mountains and…
A golden century
Lord Carrington, who died last week in his hundredth year, witnessed and shaped much of the international politics of the…
