Features Australia
The great, needless Liberal fault line
One thing the same-sex marriage debate has done, for better or worse, is to highlight the deep differences within Australia’s…
Convention of Outsiders
Confidence in our political system has collapsed, as the internationally respected 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer records. Politicians usually justify our…
Split NZ
The only thing that can be said with any certainty about the next New Zealand government is that it will…
A Millenial changes her mind
Spectator Australia contributor Anne Gallagher is currently overseas and received this letter from her 17-year old daughter. It is reproduced…
The inconvenient truth about Al Gore
A decade ago Al Gore released his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Second only to 9/11 it was the decade’s most…
Tying the Gordian knot
The same sex marriage push didn’t just appear overnight. It’s the result of carefully crafted campaigns by US homosexuals with…
Unlearning truth
Nearly ten months on, the University of Sydney appears to be coming to grips with the fact that Donald Trump…
Turnbull, SSM and the culture wars
In his capacity as an individual, Malcolm Turnbull has just as much right to an opinion on same-sex marriage as…
What Trojan horse?
One popular metaphor used by No campaigners is that of the Trojan horse. Same-sex marriage will, the metaphor suggests, introduce…
Business/Robbery etc
Created by a combination of federal political incompetence and ideology-based state stupidity, it is sovereign risk, above all else, that…
Puppet masters and useful idiots
A few years ago I returned to Sydney after nearly a life-time spent working in England. With my interest in…
Bestie or baddie?
An article appeared two weeks ago in this magazine entitled ‘Iran is our natural ally’. Images came to mind of…
The Senate is dysfunctional
Look across the entire democratic world and you will notice that some countries have only one legislative chamber. New Zealand…
Popping down to Winki Pop
Surfers were the last of this planet’s great explorers. They followed the paths forged centuries earlier by missionaries and colonisers,…
Testing can be positive
The federal government’s proposed drug testing trial for selected unemployment benefits claimants has been greeted with depressingly predictable objections from…
Stan Grant’s papal bull
According to ancient legend, Alexander the Great was born on the day that the second Temple of Artemis at Ephesus…
Don’t change the Senate
Defenders of the constitution have our work cut out for us. It seems that every day brings a new, novel,…
Coming soon to a campus near you
If you are not worried about the state of free enquiry in universities around the Anglosphere then you are probably…
Business/Robbery etc
Why are so many company directors diverting their energies into pushing publicly-owned corporations to take up controversial social and political…
Cry me a river
My local council – Yarra City – is a grab-bag of inner-urban ‘brie and chablis’ lefties from central casting. It…
Aux bien pensants
Everything and anything to bring Australia down Will our elites succeed in bringing Australia down, just as Argentina and especially…
Where’s Waleed (on gay marriage)?
When the Chinese family who have a café in the small town near me put a sign in their window…
Bottom drawer
Deep in the bowels of the Australian Safe Schools Supporters (ASSS) headquarters, a planning session was taking place. All those…
Heroes of Hyde Park
Captain Cook and Lachlan Macquarie are being hunted down by didactic leftists. Last Friday one of these ‘correctors’ of history…
#Hug a Nazi?
When the Nazi knifepoint was at Britain’s jugular in 1940 Winston Churchill told the nation that all it could look…
