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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…
Dead babies
Last week in Queensland we saw an extremely distressing scene where a young midwife, Louise Adsett, gave a disturbing account…
Woke warlords
For commonsense conservative Australians living in New South Wales, the anger is palpable. Yet again, the woke factional warriors of…
Trapped, doomed and unwelcome
Psychiatrist and former Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry has spent the last five years leading a ground-breaking study,…
Albo’s intersectional economics
At the Garma festival in Arnhem land recently, the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, reached peak woke stupidity. The…
The Last Reshuffle
A common element in democratic government cabinet reshuffles is the idea that the dead wood is chopped out allowing new…
How Dutton can win
The next federal election is there to be won. Peter Dutton and the Coalition have the ability to win it,…
Trump swallows universe
One of the most important Australian novels of the last few decades is Boy Swallows Universe, the semi-autobiographical debut by…
Envoy to Combat anti-Semitism
The Albanese government this week appointed Jillian Segal AO as its Special Envoy to Combat anti-Semitism. That’s where the good…
Against the machine
It’s wonderful that so many freedom fighters and free speech advocates are making a point of visiting our shores this…
Nuclear fallout
The decision by the Albanese government to employ former Liberal New South Wales treasurer Matt Kean to sell its renewables…
Bowen to the rescue
‘And just when it looked like Labor might hold on to power, Chris Bowen came thundering into town to snatch…
Climate furphies
At the heart of the Paris Agreement is a major furphy, certainly as far as Australia is concerned. Namely, that…
Vaccines? Excess deaths? Any link?
Is this the first significant crack in the dam? This week, the UK Telegraph ran a story that should be…
