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Get back to where we once belonged
‘Want to go to the footy? Download the app.’ tweeted Health Minister Greg Hunt on 2 May, speaking to Australians…
It’s the economy, covid!
Perhaps more than any other magazine, The Spectator Australia was horrified by the Turnbull coup. The real one, that is,…
We are not Anzacs in this crisis
One hundred and five years ago today, our boys stormed the barren shores of Anzac Cove. For all the Victoria…
Kangaroo court
In his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King wrote: ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’ This has…
Wheels fall off Pell’s tumbril
As in a bombardment on a strategically crucial target, all the big guns were firing. And great was the rejoicing…
Go in hard, get out fast
It remains to be seen whether the actions taken by the Morrison government in the last two weeks will have…
Recalibrate Australia
All pay rises for public servants to be frozen until after the pandemic is over! Shock horror! Hospitality industry unions…
Apoxalypse now
Last week we asked whether Scott Morrison and the Australian medical authorities would learn the lessons of Italy and impose…
Coronavirus confusion
With people swarming the aisles of our supermarkets grabbing every multipack of dunny paper they can lay their hands on,…
Through the ABC’s looking glass
‘How can you look at future technologies? They’re not invented yet!’ retorted Leigh Sales gleefully. If Lewis Carroll had created…
To Boris, from down under
Dear Boris, How ironic that at the very moment you succeed in unshackling your great country from the tyranny and…
Bye bye Holden, meat pies…
If you think the shutting down of Holden, the end of that much-loved brand, the loss of automotive jobs and…
Will Morrison fight?
To ‘culturally appropriate’ General George S. Patton: No bastard ever won a war by refusing to fight the battle. Slowly,…
Climate warriors
It’s been an endless summer but not in the style of the 1966 classic film of sun and surf. Our…
Charles threatens the Crown
Australia’s constitutional monarchy, much like Canada’s, is one of the great success stories to have grown out of the British…
Political hazard reduction
After several weeks of being caught on the hop by the severity of the bushfires, it appears Scott Morrison has…
Gone with the Windsors
These are tumultuous times for the Royal Family. No one was surprised when Meghan Markle, a former TV actress from…
Death of a terrorist
The death of Iran’s terrorist- in-chief, Qassem Soleimani, brought a swift end to a dangerous adversary but there is no…
A summer to savour
What an extraordinary year. And what a wonderful way for conservative-leaning Australians to head into their summer holidays. Over the…
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…
