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No time for complacency, ScoMo
The Australian Election Study has analysed every election result since 1987. In seeking to explain why people voted as they…
Our farmers have few friends
Yet again, David Flint has shown that despite being an inner-city dwelling, softly-spoken, smartly-groomed, elegantly-dressed emeritus professor of law and…
Wokepac
The Bank of New South Wales, now Westpac, got its start way back in 1817. For two centuries, its name…
Political insanity
As the bushfires rage, and a long, hot, dry and fiery summer seems inevitable, it’s well past time for Australia…
Rock star
Any fears that the Tony Abbott Testimonial Dinner on Sydney’s north shore last week would be a rather maudlin or…
Spies like Abbott
It is hard to know which proposition is more absurd. Is it the notion that former prime minister Tony Abbott…
Scott superglues his colours
And so the Great Betrayal of the Australian people continues. Not content with sneakily ratifying the Paris Agreement on Climate…
Loving the luvvies too much
When it comes to Coalition governments, Michael Corleone of The Godfather doesn’t normally come to mind. Yet they seem to…
Facing extinction
It’s not only the crazies from Extinction Rebellion who have deliberately buried their heads in the sand lately. So, too,…
Lead on, Libs
Seventy-five years ago this week, a Canberra meeting convened by Robert Menzies decided to establish a new political party, the…
Cold war kowtowing
Beijing’s birthday bash this week provides an unwelcome flashback to the dark days of the Cold War. The depressing spectacle…
Labor’s weapon of mass confusion
By any rational measure, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s state visit to the United States should be judged a success. The…
Conversation stopper
A s heavy snow fell in southeastern Australia this week, for the third time this year, preparations were still underway…
Are you being served?
As Labor politicians dragged their heels back to parliament this week, there are signs of progress through the five stages…
White women on the hook
Martin Niemöller’s famous post-World War II quotation is as poetic as it is heart-breaking, as insightful as it is terrifying.…
ScoMo settles in
It’s Sunday, so it must be Biarritz! Prime Minister Scott Morrison could be forgiven for losing his bearings over the…
Cover girl
It was around three weeks ago that The Spectator Australia’s Mark Powell first broke the story on our online magazine…
CPAC packed out
Some gags you can’t get enough of, and the suggestion by Mark Latham and others that the astonishing success of…
Soya bean diplomacy
‘You can sell your soul for a can of soya beans,’ announced the second most powerful man in the world…
Flat White & the NSW Libs
When a political party ignores its base, it will turn elsewhere. The base, that usually is. But, innovators always, the…
BoJo, ScoMo & Trump
Our heartiest congratulations to Boris Johnson on his elevation from proud and humble editor of this magazine to the prime…
Morrison’s climate challenge
It is unacceptable for the Morrison government to carry on blindly ignoring the mounting evidence that far from being ‘settled’,…
Naidoc’s ‘themes’
It’s Naidoc Week, which is, quote, ‘a time for all Australians to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of all…
Still Laboring under delusions
Six weeks after the federal election, the resumption of parliament has forced Labor to accept the unpalatable truth that it…
From Folau to 18C
‘Folau has criticised not only those who are homosexual, but drunkards, thieves, atheists, fornicators, adulterers and so on. So he’s…
