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Easter Bunny
It would be a brave passenger indeed who hopped onto a plane where the pilot hadn’t the faintest clue about…
Where’s the buzz?
Only three Labor leaders since the second world war have won government from opposition; Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Kevin…
Has Josh saved ScoMo’s bacon?
You may not have guessed it from Josh Frydenberg’s speech, dolefully read at the pace of a 45-rpm record played…
Mean boys
‘True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper…
The rope, the chair & the noose
The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed the outlook for the forthcoming federal election. It is unlikely, once the gravity…
Abandon ‘net zero’ and win
The path to electoral victory is crystal clear. Scott Morrison must abandon net zero to win the next election. Much…
Castrating Australia
Within this week’s issue we present a number of articles and different points of view surrounding the invasion of Ukraine,…
Catch 2022
There is a diabolical conundrum facing conservatives at the forthcoming federal election: how to get more conservatives into Parliament? Once…
ScoMo’s four feathers
As the two sides of politics marshal their forces and prepare to do battle in polling booths across the nation…
ScoMo’s lack of discipline
Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week called for unity within the ranks of the Coalition in order to get his…
Questions not asked
The questions put to Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the National Press Club this week, lobbed at him with all…
Don’t go woke, go for broke
With Australia Day vanishing in the rear-view mirror and most of the nation learning to live with Covid, the stage…
We can’t rejoice until we’re free
On 1 January last year the words of the national anthem were changed, purportedly to make them more inclusive. Instead…
Don’t turn tennis into Tampa
Not since the deportation of Joe Cocker in the dying days of Billy McMahon’s government has there been a celebrity…
Reviving Australian liberalism
New Year is a time for resolutions and for reflecting on the year passed. After the last two years of…
Three pictures of a Covid year
As 2021 drew to an end, the quest for the Speccie Christmas Special front cover began. How best to sum…
Dear Dom (versions A and B)
At some point during this week, an unvaccinated person will stroll into a newsagent in New South Wales to buy…
Bullies and trolls
‘I have a record of standing up to those who will seek to threaten Australia’s interests, whether they’re outside this…
Conservative populists
‘Disgusting right-wing nut-jobs’, ‘rebels’, ‘populist conservatives’ and of course ‘anti-vaxxers’. These are just some of the politer insults being hurled…
A glorious coalition of conservatives
As Scott Morrison sets up the idea of ‘who do you trust?’ as his 2022 election theme, and in doing…
Are we free yet?
There were some fine words from the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, this week when he spoke in Melbourne to a…
By the book
As Scott Morrison gallivanted on the Glasgow stage this week, rubbing elbows (literally) with the likes of Joe Biden, Boris…
All for nothing
Perhaps a future synonym of ‘net zero’ will be ‘all for nothing’. For surely that is what the last three…
How to lose an election
Scott Morrison and the Coalition have a unique opportunity to go to the next election with their own version of…
Roll up
This week, a ‘voluntary assisted dying’ Bill will be presented to the NSW Parliament, following the recent passage of similar…
