Spectator Australia TV is back!
Based on the UK Spectator TV’s The Week in 60 Minutes, Spectator Australia TV brings all of your favourite Speccie authors and conservative political figures to the screen to discuss the week’s trending topics. Hosted by Flat White’s online editor Alexandra Marshall, we’ll flip the page and go behind the story.
We open our first show with special guests Spectator Chairman Andrew Neil and Australia’s King of Radio Alan Jones to discuss our nation’s obsession with The Voice to Parliament and the future of conservative politics. Is there a change in the air? Are we about to see the return of conservative power?
Click to watch the full show below.
‘The danger for Australia is that it is now going to have this debate on the Voice, meanwhile, rather more important things are going to pass you by. It’s always dangerous when the concerns – the priorities – of the political elite are regarded as more important than the concerns and priorities of the people who get to vote…’ – Andrew Neil
‘There are millions and millions of Australians who don’t have a political home, who wonder who speaks for them, and they certainly don’t get much of a voice – if I can use that butchered word – in terms of the mainstream media … we have become a nation without debate.’ – Alan Jones
Executive Director of the IPA, Scott Hargreaves, spoke to us about the two types of ‘yes’ voters caught up in the Voice – the ‘yes’ and the ‘yes…’ What’s the difference and can the ‘no’ camp reason with them before the referendum at the end of the year?
‘There are over 3,000 Indigenous corporations in Australia at the moment, there are over 1,000 bureaucrats already operating in the National Indigenous Australian agency, there are some form of land claims over 40 per cent of the Australian continent – it’s not right to say that Indigenous Australians have no Voice.’ – Scott Hargreaves
Are we involved in a new cultural revolution with shades of Chairman Mao? ADH TV Chair Maurice Newman spoke to us about the ‘Great Reset’ and the crumbling of democracy. Is the next stop for Western nations ‘tyranny’?
‘Our children in schools and universities are all being taught that we are meant to despise our past, we are meant to be ashamed of our history, and only concentrate on all of the things that make children say, “Well… We have to look for something else. We can’t believe in the values our parents and grandparents fought for.” It starts in kindergarten. Our children are being indoctrinated.’ – Maurice Newman.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce speaks to us about the possible violation of the UN Human Rights Treaty as the Voice threatens to grant some Australians more rights than others.
‘…this says that certain people in Australia will be born with different rights to other people. If you have an accentuated right for one person, you have a diminished right for another person – and this is premised on the colour of your skin. I never thought we’d be debating this in 2023.’ – Barnaby Joyce.
Finally, Ken Phillips attended a Marxist conference over two days so that the rest of us didn’t have to scare ourselves! He brings us the inside information on how modern Marxists think and what they want to do with our political system (if they are elected to power).
‘[According to the Marxists] Every evil that is occurring in our society is a consequence of capitalism. Beginning and end of story – and everything can be traced back to that. It is a circular argument. There was a feeling of attending a religious revivalist meeting and that there was a belief system in which they were operating in and everything consistently returned to that. It was that simple…’ – Ken Phillips
