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The Spectator

4 January 2025 Aus

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Leading article Australia

The year that woke broke

The year 2024 will go down in the history books as the year in which Donald Trump triumphed over the…

Australian Columnists

Brown Study

Brown study

The spirit of Christmas came to me last week in a very real but unexpected way. I had given myself…

Australian Features

Features Australia

Following Enron’s playbook

Labor plays hide and seek with the debt and deficit

Features Australia

Workplace follies

Labor regulations are driving businesses broke or offshore

Features Australia

Socialism: the grift that keeps on taking

Australians must recognise the ‘enemy within’

Features Australia

Yada yada yada

Jim Chalmers is Australia’s answer to Kamala Harris

Features Australia

Looking forward and back

2025 will be a good year in the US, Canada and Australia

Features Australia

Twin tragedies

Lessons were learned but the heroes must be recognised

Features Australia

All tail and no dog

Labor has drifted a long way from its working-class roots

Features Australia

Decline and fall in Victoria

Brad Battin has his work cut out to make Melbourne marvellous again

Features Australia

Enemies foreign and domestic

Both Trump and Hegseth have them in their sights

Arts

Australian Arts

Summer Reading

There are a thousand ways of celebrating the Christmas holiday that are culture specific but have a universal appeal. You…

Life

Aussie Life

Aussie life

Like many Speccie readers I was shocked by the public expressions of anti-Semitism which blighted the closing months of 2024.…

Aussie Life

Language

The verb ‘to unsee’ turns up as a snappy, or trendy, way of saying that something is unforgettable—in a bad…