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Say what you want to about them, but I like pandemics. I particularly like Covid-19. Sort of. What I mean…
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You really have to live in Melbourne to appreciate the depressing and disturbing atmosphere that embraces it at the present.…
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In this dull, dispiriting time we have to get our humour where we can find it, no matter in how…
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The Spectator Australia has always prided itself on being first with the news. However, there is one publishing milestone we…
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Well, Arthur Sinodinos turned out to be a damp squib, as I predicted. It was bad enough to denigrate the…
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I don’t like praising politicians, but I feel Scott Morrison and his colleagues and even the premiers have been treated…
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The Spectator Australia Literary Investigations Unit is renowned for uncovering many long-lost masterpieces, but few match the significance of its…
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The Spectator Australia book club has saved our members hundreds of dollars by recommending books that you should not buy…
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‘Daddy, what did you do in the Great Pandemic?’ People are getting ready to answer this question for when things…
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Since my column confessing to a lifetime of white supremacy and worshipping at the altar of colonialism, many readers have…
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You might think that the law is old, stodgy, stuck in the past and opposed to reform. It is all…
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The Liberal party certainly had a close shave in getting rid of Malcolm Turnbull before the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic hit…
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I seem to be the only person in this country who is not cock-a-hoop about the lavish government package to…
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The Liberal Party Economic Research Unit, operating from its bijou office in Karl Marx House in Canberra, has been responsible…
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What with all the monumental stuff-ups by the public authorities in the campaign against coronavirus, it is not surprising that…
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As you know, the Spectator Australia Social Research Unit, operating behind heavily fortified premises in Canberra, has long been involved…
Biden is it
Give me sleepiness
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As Chairman of Apologies Inc. I am pleased to report that we have had another bumper year and that business…
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As is obvious from recent events, we live in times where it is not enough to disagree with someone and…
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Scott Morrison may not realise it, but he has just been thrown a lifeline by the High Court that could…
Masochism and sadism
STOP PRESS We have just had to stop the presses that were printing the new edition of Brown’s Political Dictionary…
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For a while there, I thought that my credentials on climate change were pretty good. As I explained to my…
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There is an air of inevitability about the predicament facing the former sports minister Bridget McKenzie over the sports grants…
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After weeks of tough negotiating and heart-wrenching self-examination, I am delighted to announce that I am embarking on a transition…
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The decision that the Morrison government seems to have taken to appoint a royal commission into the bush fires is…