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PM’s Christmas gifts
As we settle back for the unique delights of the Aussie Christmas, placing the pressies under the Chrissy tree and…
Let there be light
Light, or enlightenment, is a metaphor for so many optimistic, positive and critical components of our humanity, and of our…
Last Quango in Paris
This week, the world’s climate-obsessed leaders meet in Katowice in Poland in a desperate attempt to put teeth into the…
In praise of the PM
Don’t sign! warned our editorial on this page last week. Our readership may not match that of the the daily…
Don’t sign
If, as seems to be reliably reported, the Morrison government has decided both to sign up next month to the…
Hail to The Chief
The US mid-term elections are the most important in recent history and not just for Americans. Since 1788, Australia has…
Stand for something, ScoMo
Prime Minister Scott Morrison may be bruised by Malcolm Turnbull’s bile-laden farewell present, the Wentworth by-election. But this atypical Turnbull-loving,…
All trick, no treat
The election to parliament of the ghoulish political figure of Dr Kerryn Phelps on the eve of Hallowe’en seems, alas,…
Bill Shorten, drunken sailor
When Bill Shorten tried to make Question Time hay of Malcolm Turnbull’s political demise, to gales of backbench laughter Prime…
Scott, don’t go to Poland
This week’s IPCC report, with yet another deadline for action to avert climate ‘catastrophe’, deserves push-back from Australia. Instead of…
Juvenile and clueless
‘Juvenile and clueless’ is how the Australian’s esteemed Editor-at-Large Paul Kelly deems the suggestion by Liberals and conservatives (including many…
Aunty’s dropped her bloomers
There’s delicious irony in sacked managing director of the ABC, Michelle Guthrie, being replaced by a man. Having pursued the…
Turnbull’s Costa Concordia
In 2012, the liner Costa Concordia struck a rock just off the Italian coast. The huge ship capsized and sank,…
Turnbull’s political suicide
The Canberra press gallery can’t work out why their favourite Liberal is no longer prime minister because they have almost…
Satisfaction guaranteed
‘It’s wonderful to be here, it’s certainly a thrill. You’re such a lovely audience, we’d like to take you home…
Thanks for nothing, Malcolm
One thing we can be sure of is that the Liberal prime minister who once tried to join the Labor…
It was Mr Turnbull wot dunnit
As we go to press, it’s unclear whether the inevitable second round of the Liberal party spill drama will already…
Outrage over Anning
It goes without saying that the use of the two words ‘final solution’ in a parliamentary maiden speech about immigration,…
NEG? No thanks
Back in July 2014, The Spectator Australia was ridiculed by the luvvies for running a self-congratulatory cover crowing about the…
Yesterday’s news
What a week. The so-called demise of Fairfax one day, the threatened demise of Malcolm Turnbull the next. The luvvies…
Great betrayal, Part II
The news that, behind our backs, the team that signed us up to the greatest betrayal of this nation by…
King Coal’s reign not over yet
When it comes to power generation, only two things matter. One, ensuring a sufficient and reliable supply of electricity to…
GST money for nothing
Paul Keating once warned about never getting between state premiers and a bucket of money. Since 1999, that bucket has…
It’s coming back…
In 2013, the Australian people thought they’d tossed the pernicious carbon tax out for good. And with it, the job-destroying,…
Humbug, hypocrisy and duplicity
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Australia’s current energy policy is close to being insane. We are the world’s…
