In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Is the Coalition conning coal communities?
The voters in Upper Hunter may have elected a pro-coal candidate nine days ago, but it remains to be seen…
Fighting for democracy, one tea at a time
The Milk Tea Alliance — originally some pro-democracy social media geekery in Hong Kong and Taiwan — is racing through South…
Scott Morrison must remind Jacinda Ardern who her real friends are
If, to borrow Paul Keating’s description, Australia is the arse end of the world, New Zealand is the arse end…
World No Tobacco Day exposes Big Public Health’s failure
Today marks “World No Tobacco Day”, a World Health Organization initiative to draw attention to the dangers of tobacco, what governments…
How we flag our racial prejudice
Australia is a systematically and institutionally racist country; that is the story peddled by the Australian Human Rights Commission at…
Australia: where to from here?
When the American singer-songwriter, Jackie DeShannon, was played “What the World Needs Now” by the composers Burt Bacharach and Hal David,…
Archi or Marxibalds?
Cultural Marxism’s long march through the institutions is well-nigh complete. Emblematic of art imitating life, the 2021 Archibald art competition…
Why we mustn’t fly overseas – even if we could
Australians must stop flying overseas, turn off their air conditioners and drive more slowly if the world is to achieve…
Spectator Australia TV: Melbourne in lockdown – here we go again
This week on Spectator Australia TV: Melbourne in Lockdown — Here We Go Again. IPA rising star Cian Hussey on…
What would Menzies make of the modern Liberal Party?
Labor’s 20 per cent result in last weekend’s Hunter by-election is a warning to both the state and federal party,…
In the bleak midwinter
As autumn fades and the final leaves fall, the bitter winds of winter loom. Cold hearts of powerful people begin…
How the national curriculum abolishes Australian citizenship
The draft national curriculum for schools is seeking to teach the next generation of Australians a progressive and utopian view of…
Comment is free, but facts are sacred
The machine of left-wing activism has gone into a panic with a decade of propaganda starting to unravel. Public patience…
ScoMo goes troppo
Many Spectator Australia readers will recall the way Paul Keating taunted John Hewson in the lead up to the 1993…
Incompetence abounds in Victoria – but I feel fully reassured
Having spent another 40 minutes of my life this morning — time I won’t get back — listening to senior…
It’s time to give up sex. Thanks feminism
Earlier this week, New South Wales unveiled huge changes to the definition of consent. The new affirmative consent model could…
Jacqui Lambie said what?
Imagine the furore if a Coalition parliamentarian told a Qantas staff member “your CEO is a poof”. Imagine the fury…
It’s bad enough in Danandrewstan without lockdown
When Victorian Treasurer, Tim Pallas delivered his budget last week, he spoke of a Victoria defined by relief and joy.…
Sorry Labor, but the gig economy is alive and well
There’s a lot of excitement coming from the union movement and the usual suspects among the commentariat over the recent ‘Deliveroo’ decision.…
The risk to ScoMo from Melbourne’s latest Covid flap
There are two very clear takeouts from Melbourne’s latest coronavirus crisis. The first is that Acting Premier James Merlino is…
Watch out for the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism.
While the skies across Israel are silent once again as a ceasefire holds, for over a week Israelis’ have been…
All this for one death all year?
Greater Melbourne has been hit again. Not so much this time by WuFlu, but more by heavy-handed officialdom and a…
Once were a democracy
There is no doubt New Zealand’s democracy is now under aggressive attack by the small minority of those of part-Maori…
How to really help the Palestinians
Facts no longer matter. If more Palestinians are being killed than Israelis then you need to help the Palestinians –…
The People’s Princess and the poobahs of public broadcasting
Goodbye England’s rose May you ever grow in our hearts You were the grace that placed itself where lives were torn…
