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Storms ahead
Unless the predicted Queensland cyclone skewers his plans, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected this weekend to call a federal…
Grand Primary
No democratic process is perfect. Going back to the ancient Greeks, through the Magna Carta to the US civil war,…
Bullock buckles
This week’s fraudulent interest rate cut is as good a portent as any for what to expect in the forthcoming…
Hell breaks loose
The deadline imposed by President Donald Trump, and endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the release of all hostages…
Bowen exposed
At the Grammy Awards last week, the celebrity rapper Kanye West paraded his Australian wife Bianca Censori along the red…
The final insult
We all have close friends with whom we occasionally disagree, amicably. And we have friends whom we inadvertently offend from…
Alarming antisemitism
As the country prepares for Australia Day, many Australians fear what is happening to our tolerant society. It has taken…
Game on
Australians traditionally consider the country to be on holiday until Australia Day, even if they have to work, but this…
Follow the leader
Nothing better symbolises the dismal future that Labor and the Greens are preparing for Australia than the warning in a…
The year that woke broke
The year 2024 will go down in the history books as the year in which Donald Trump triumphed over the…
Fanning the flames
This summer, Australians of all backgrounds and ethnicities must ask themselves whether the great Australian dream of multiculturalism has failed.…
The Floridian
Australians of every ethnicity and political persuasion must now face up to the reality that this country is being governed…
Crossroads
It is hard to work out Labor’s priorities, by which we mean Labor’s priorities in destroying this nation. On virtually…
Climate clown show
At the time of Labor’s election back in 2022, this magazine raised a few eyebrows by suggesting that the brand…
Albo’s values at war with Trump’s
This week’s issue is unashamedly devoted to the extraordinary victory of Donald J. Trump over Kamala Harris in a landslide…
Triumph
Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and will be the 47th president of the United States. This magazine, alone…
Covid inquiry fails
The government’s Covid-19 inquiry, the results of which were announced this week, can be summed up in five words: ‘The…
Black sovereignty
There was, understandably, considerable consternation this week over the shenanigans of a possum-skin-clad Senator Lidia Thorpe cavorting around the Great…
Cliffhanger
The news that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has bought himself a luxury multi-million dollar clifftop pad perched high above the…
Labor’s shame
As this magazine has pointed out, if you take any single political or cultural issue on its own merits in…
Liz untrussed
‘This is what conservatives have to recognise,’ proclaimed former UK prime minister Liz Truss at the Tory party conference in…
Unwelcome
Issues controversially raised in this magazine often pop up, usually several weeks or months later, in mainstream political debate. And…
Narrow church
Increasingly, and not surprisingly, political pundits across the mainstream media are beginning to say what this magazine has been saying…
Sir Paul buys our magazine
Much like an excited puppy being shown around its new home, tails were wagging here at The Spectator Australia this…
Scrap the Welcomes to…
Dear Sir, I am currently attending a conference in a major Australian city. Upon landing here I was welcomed to…
