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

Is it a parody, or is it the ABC (let alone the Age)?

16 December 2016 8:21 pm

Hello Spectator readers and welcome to the weekend and tonight’s edition of “Is it a parody, or is it the…

SA: new boundaries favour the Liberals, old betting the ALP

16 December 2016 4:17 pm

Earlier this month new electoral boundaries were announced for South Australia. The Liberals got excited and called for nominations and…

Victoria decapitates free speech

16 December 2016 1:03 pm

Three members of the fringe-right United Patriots Front have been charged after posting a video on Facebook depicting an alleged…

What’s Trump got to “disavow”?

16 December 2016 6:59 am

BOSTON, UNITED STATES — The Ku Klux Klan is planning a rally to celebrate the election of Donald Trump and,…

A disaster as charities come over all queer

15 December 2016 7:22 pm

The foxhounds of identity politics always have their noses in the air ready to catch the scent of any new…

The metastasising of 18c

15 December 2016 5:30 pm

My first action, after the initial wave of nauseated disbelief had passed, was to check on Google to see if…

Even Greens and Labor voters like lower taxes

15 December 2016 4:48 pm

Despite the general foolishness of the left, a survey shows 51 per cent of Greens voters support a company tax…

They’re doing it tough in the country too, Tony

15 December 2016 1:12 pm

Thought bubbles and soundbites seem to comfortably suit post-prime ministerial life for Tony Abbott as he snipes from the sidelines…

Rethinking the guest worker economy

14 December 2016 2:52 pm

A spirited debate has broken out about the use of temporary labour programmes in Australia, but the simultaneous political cross-dressing…

18c and the cult of victimhood

14 December 2016 1:30 pm

In a shock turn of events, the hunter has become the hunted in the Queensland University of Technology 18c case.…

We need to talk about Waleed

14 December 2016 7:20 am

It’s coming on two years since Waleed Aly joined The Project and his impact could not be more obvious. What…

Brexit’s lessons for Australia

13 December 2016 5:59 pm

Soon after the decision by the British to quit the European Union, I found myself at a dinner of about…

The critics trumped

13 December 2016 12:47 pm

Five weeks after Donald Trump’s election it’s time to stop the endless finger-pointing and hand-wringing about missing the biggest story…

Censorship, trigger warnings and “free speech”: the National Union of Students meets

13 December 2016 7:15 am

This week the rabble that is the National Union of Students will hold their annual National Conference in Geelong at Deakin…

Scandal and geopolitics Gangnam style: the impeachment of Park Geun-hye

12 December 2016 5:27 pm

The South Korean national assembly’s decision on Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye came as no great surprise. Since October…

How green is the grass on the other side

12 December 2016 12:13 pm

The change of prime minister has put New Zealand in the news on this side of the ditch, and we…

The green autism

12 December 2016 7:19 am

Dear Leader slayed it on The Bolt Report the other day: With the same force we said ‘Stop the Boats’,…

A pile of crap from the ABC. Literally…

11 December 2016 12:01 pm

It’s 19 years since South Park sparked a seasonal scatological scandal with the episode Mr Hankey, the Christmas Poo. Now…

A Sydney Grammar alumnus writes about Malcolm

11 December 2016 9:26 am

From the Flat White mailbag: As you would know, my old school has produced three prime ministers: The First (Barton);…

Christmas in South Sudan

10 December 2016 7:06 am

Ten days before Christmas 2013 a civil war started in the new nation of South Sudan. The events leading up…

Why the lights went out on SA Labor

9 December 2016 12:54 pm

This week the SA Labor Premier, Jay Weatherill, took the lead in the national energy debate, suggesting the creation of an inter-state emissions…

The Age’s morning glory

9 December 2016 11:03 am

We knew its recently departed editor-in-chief Mark Forbes was a sleazebag, but even then it was still generally believed The…

When did aristocracy come back into vogue?

9 December 2016 7:13 am

Listen these days to some of the world’s elite politicians, commentators and officials pontificate and you’d think you were living…

Trevor Goddard: the end of a grand innings

8 December 2016 1:28 pm

When stumps were drawn at the Wanderers on January 26th, 1965 the Springbok captain, Trevor Goddard, was 11 runs shy…

Green-left legerdemain doesn’t make religion relevant

8 December 2016 7:09 am

It has long been obvious that the political agenda of some Catholic organisations and schools rest solidly within the Green-left…