Can social media damn your career when you’re already 66? It might just be so in the case of Alexander…

The appalling Liberal Party performance in the five Super Saturday by-elections confirms what has long been obvious. This is that…

The only poll that matters, we’re always told, is the one on election day. So we must regard yesterday’s ballots…

As a follow up to my earlier Spectator piece I thought it would be helpful to analyse the state of…

When the New South Wales government backtracked on its plans to introduce a greyhound racing ban, most people were dismayed…

Another week goes by and we again see state and federal governments squandering our money on embarrassing and harebrained ventures,…

For political tragics, the western world has been a marvel over the past five years. A popular groundswell demanding self-determination…

When it comes to elections, bookies are perhaps an even better form guide than the plethora of public and private…

Yesterday Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment announced that they will merge, forming a media organisation worth $4.2 billion. The new…

Reverend Dr Michael Bird of Ridley College, Melbourne, is an accomplished author for The Spectator Australia as well as academically…

It seems to have been finalised rather quickly, but a deal has been struck that merges Nine and Fairfax. There…

Yes, it’s sad. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age were great newspapers in their day. They did not just…

Everyone seems to be banning the plastic non-fantastic these days in the newest example of the environmental theatre that makes the…

Australia definitely benefits from learning from other societies and applying international best practices. But the grass is not always greener…

Of course I was anxious about being a Muslim visiting Israel. My passport stated my birthplace as Bangladesh and there…

Barry Humphries gave an interview to this august journal just last week where he had some unkind things to say…

It can be difficult for us Australians at this distance to understand the Democratic Party’s obsession with Donald Trump; especially…

If I said to you that research suggests Greens voters recycle more than the average Australian, would you be surprised?…

Anyone who thinks the Tony Abbott is the worst recurring nightmare to a new leader should take a look stateside.…

Paul Bongiorno writes for Saturday as well as being an ABC Radio National commentator on politics and cultural affairs. Very…

We live in an era where journalism has been traduced by its practitioners to such a degree nothing should surprise…

Twelve years since they were introduced and nearly six years since branding and logos were removed from cigarette packets, we…

Hey, I like science just as much as the next guy. But I recognise that science has its limits. While…

It was interesting to learn from Greg Sheridan in The Weekend Australian that there are some religious people in the Parliament.…

What happened to Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux in Melbourne over the weekend is a potent example of how free…