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Fake emu oil, real decline
Talkfests are rarely inspiring but the G7 summit last weekend was the final straw. Irritating, unmasked leaders tottered around the…
Bat soup crazy
In this week’s issue, Rebecca Weisser looks at the disgraceful way in which ‘the experts’ got it so wrong on…
Following the science
A key theme that recurs in this magazine, courtesy of many different great writers, is that the accepted consensus of…
‘Je suis Cohen’, anybody?
The video images, acts of violence and racial abuse are shocking. Yet no one appears to be shocked. Certainly not…
Vaccine blackmail is unacceptable
One always tries to avoid resorting to hyperbole or comparisons linked to extreme events, but in this instance there doesn’t…
Joshua tree
Travelling across the Mojave desert in the mid-1800s in search of the Promised Land, a group of Mormons were mesmerised…
Best exotic Victorian hotel
Could there be a more perfect metaphor for not only the multiple failures of the Andrews Labor government but also…
China’s belligerence
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus was the Roman general who wisely noted around 385 AD that, Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet…
Three words
Lest we forget. Three simple words that effortlessly roll off the tongue at this time of the year, but has…
Scott’s army
‘You stupid boy!’ was the catch phrase of Captain Mainwaring in the BBC hit series Dad’s Army, which delighted audiences…
Malcolm Pantsdown
First up, congratulations to Premier Gladys Berejiklian for, presumably, being the one to hit the ‘Eject’ button on the appointment…
Happy Easter, bunnies
Easter is a time of rebirth and renewal in both Christian celebrations as well as the pagan festivities that the…
Quotas are not the answer
Yet again, the Prime Minister has been ensnared by the Left’s web of deceit and fallen prey to the most…
Standing on principle
Is reality slowly dawning on the Prime Minister? Has his wilful and egregious myopia towards all matters cultural and ideological…
Race card
Although much has been written about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey (perhaps Jerry Springer would…
Presumed innocent
Scott Morrison has famously declared that he has no time for fighting the culture wars and that ‘free speech never…
Dear Speccie reader,
These are exciting times to be a reader of, and subscriber to, The Spectator Australia, not to mention being its…
Speccie? Banned!
Well, we must be doing something right. In banning the beleaguered Liberal backbench MP Craig Kelly for seven days, the…
PM damages his brand
‘Free speech never created a single job,’ a sanctimonious Scott Morrison once informed the nation, forgetting of course that his…
Flawed democracy
In an interesting report by Catherine Philp in the UK Times, we learn that the coronavirus has seriously damaged democratic…
Funny things at the forum
Every pandemic has a silver lining. This week, we were spared the spectacle of Davos Man (and Woman) jetting into…
Spare us the Australia Day antics
Even the most loyal Australian could be forgiven for having a sense of foreboding at the approach of Australia Day.…
Covid maniacs running the asylum
It seems passing strange that the Victorian government’s arbitrary detention of its citizens, desperately flying home after Christmas, appears to…
One and free? If only we were
The paradox of our age of abundance, is that we fret incessantly about scarcity, and yet, like the wisdom of…
Normal normal
After one of the most gruelling and troubling years of the last few decades, the one thing most of us…
