Features Australia

The war we don’t know how to fight

7 October 2017 9:00 am

One day, perhaps before it is too late, Turnbull, Brandis, Shorten and co. and their fellow members of the political…

Tim’s tawdry trick

7 October 2017 9:00 am

As the saying goes, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So naturally, when the…

Playlgbtiq

7 October 2017 9:00 am

I keep turning a thought over and over in my head: What would we think of Hugh Hefner if he…

Business/Robbery etc

7 October 2017 9:00 am

Sound commercial practice for marketing and industrial relations reasons? Self-indulgent directorial virtue-signalling for status purposes? Fear of retaliation by activists…

Bad sex

30 September 2017 9:00 am

Australian universities appear to have completely capitulated to the virulently anti-male propaganda of radical feminists. Feminists increasingly control what is…

Insane expectations

30 September 2017 9:00 am

Politics has always been a notoriously unstable activity but over recent years this has been accentuated by several long-accepted rules…

The great, needless Liberal fault line

30 September 2017 9:00 am

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

30 September 2017 9:00 am

Confidence in our political system has collapsed, as the internationally respected 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer records. Politicians usually justify our…

Split NZ

30 September 2017 9:00 am

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

23 September 2017 9:00 am

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

23 September 2017 9:00 am

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

23 September 2017 9:00 am

The same sex marriage push didn’t just appear overnight. It’s the result of carefully crafted campaigns by US homosexuals with…

Unlearning truth

23 September 2017 9:00 am

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

23 September 2017 9:00 am

In his capacity as an individual, Malcolm Turnbull has just as much right to an opinion on same-sex marriage as…

What Trojan horse?

23 September 2017 9:00 am

One popular metaphor used by No campaigners is that of the Trojan horse. Same-sex marriage will, the metaphor suggests, introduce…

Business/Robbery etc

23 September 2017 9:00 am

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

16 September 2017 9:00 am

A few years ago I returned to Sydney after nearly a life-time spent working in England. With my interest in…

Bestie or baddie?

16 September 2017 9:00 am

An article appeared two weeks ago in this magazine entitled ‘Iran is our natural ally’. Images came to mind of…

The Senate is dysfunctional

16 September 2017 9:00 am

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

16 September 2017 9:00 am

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

16 September 2017 9:00 am

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

9 September 2017 9:00 am

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

9 September 2017 9:00 am

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

9 September 2017 9:00 am

If you are not worried about the state of free enquiry in universities around the Anglosphere then you are probably…

Business/Robbery etc

9 September 2017 9:00 am

Why are so many company directors diverting their energies into pushing publicly-owned corporations to take up controversial social and political…