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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

The WA Liberals have only themselves to blame

14 March 2021 3:38 pm

Tomorrow, 15 March, in 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated. In Shakespeare’s homonymous play a fortune teller warns Caesar of…

Spectator Australia TV, this week featuring Maurice Newman, Andrew Bushnell and the man himself, Rowan Dean

14 March 2021 12:00 pm

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Two big questions and two observations from the West

14 March 2021 10:51 am

It wasn’t that long ago that a Western Australian landslide win — for the Liberals — was called at just…

Mathias Cormann owes his big break to Tony Abbott

13 March 2021 4:19 pm

I’ve known Mathias Cormann the better part of twenty years.  When I was a senior adviser to Tony Abbott as…

Sydney University chooses to chase cash, not quality

13 March 2021 1:32 pm

There is an old and proven saying: Personnel is Policy. You hire the person best suited to implement your strategies…

The sinister push for rape star chambers 

13 March 2021 11:50 am

Wake up, people!  I know most of you have had a gutful of watching zealots impose mob rule on our…

Time to put Andrew Hastie in the frontline

12 March 2021 3:54 pm

It’s becoming increasingly clear that Defence Minister Linda Reynolds may be unable to continue in her role, with her problems…

A reminder: the drama won’t stop in the West tomorrow

12 March 2021 2:24 pm

Tomorrow’s Western Australian state election should be dramatic enough — and there is likely to be more drama next Friday.…

An ‘independent inquiry’ into Christian Porter will mean the rule of law is over

12 March 2021 12:04 pm

Last week, an alleged historical rape by a current federal cabinet minister hit the headlines. In the following days, Attorney-General, Christian Porter, held a press conference to confirm…

Three rules for young staffers – and a better Canberra

12 March 2021 4:00 am

Rules are awesome. They are a safety net that minimises risk to ourselves and to others. They give us a…

The tourism cash splash: message to ScoMo’s spine – where the bloody hell are you?

11 March 2021 7:35 pm

For those of you who have woken to the news this morning that the Commonwealth Government has announced a special tourism…

A what’s woke special: and to think that we saw it in Wokeworld this week

11 March 2021 4:30 pm

The Twittersphere this week went into meltdown at the news that Dr Seuss Enterprises — the company that is supposed…

Witches by name, lunatics by nature

11 March 2021 2:18 pm

The time has come to choose. Do you hold firm to common sense and believe strongly in the rule of…

Daniel Andrews is under investigation for indictable criminal offences over hotel quarantine. We’ve got the inside story

11 March 2021 10:30 am

Developments late last week confirm that the Victorian government — including Premier Daniel Andrews — is under investigation for indictable…

The Reserve Bank has failed us

11 March 2021 4:00 am

Earlier this month, former Treasurer Peter Costello stated the bleeding obvious when he warned “ultra-low interest rates risk creating the…

Can a $50 note identify as a $100 bill?

10 March 2021 7:37 pm

If you were to believe everything you read in the mainstream press, the greatest threat we face is from the…

Milo comes out as straight, chaste and Catholic

10 March 2021 5:36 pm

Milo Yiannopoulos coming out as ‘straight’ is like taking the Social Justice final exam, where you have to sit down…

No upside for electricity customers in the early closure of coal generators

10 March 2021 4:23 pm

The announcement that EnergyAustralia’s Yallourn power station in Victoria is to close in 2028, two to four years earlier than had been expected, is an inevitable outcome…

Work from home is here to stay – and a productivity boom is about to be unleashed

10 March 2021 1:30 pm

The global energy giant BP has told around 25,000 of its staff that working from home is now permanent. This is…

Did the Palace really want a freckly ranga?

10 March 2021 11:30 am

Playing the race card with young Archie was one of the inevitabilities of the Meghan and Harry Spectacular. The question…

Unmask our kids

10 March 2021 4:00 am

There certainly were a few revelations for the Australian public in 2020. The complete dominance of state Premiers and governments,…

What will a Mark McGowan landslide mean for religious freedom?

9 March 2021 7:35 pm

This Saturday, West Australians go to the polls. All the indications are that the McGowan Labor government will be re-elected…

Meghan and Harry: Ultimate Survivors

9 March 2021 6:12 pm

Poor Meghan and Harry. Forget surviving wars, famines and droughts, even the ravages of the long-running Survivor television show. Are…

Neither age nor bureaucracy will condemn them: Anzac marches must be on

9 March 2021 1:41 pm

Barring further acts of political cowardice, Australians will commemorate Anzac Day 2021 as they have done for almost 106 years.…

Megan and Harry: don’t say we (or Mark Latham, actually) didn’t warn you

9 March 2021 11:30 am

Mark Latham, The Spectator Australia, 26 May 2018: The former NSW Premier Neville Wran had an interesting take on the…