In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Who Is The Victorian Of The Year?
What sane Victorian didn’t do a double take when it was announced that the state’s former Chief Health Officer, Brett…
Who was behind the ban on Donald Trump Junior’s tour Downunder?
Donald Trump Junior applied for a visa to visit Australia in May. Last night, the Australian government finally consented to…
Just not cricket!
Following England’s defeat in the second test of the Ashes, former Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld joins The Spectator‘s…
Canberra’s Calvary
The closure of a Catholic hospital has become a matter of life, death and conscience
Road to net zero paved with coal
If we want to keep the lights on we'll need fossil fuels for decades
The weaponisation of conspiracy against truth
Credibility is the foundation of justice, not truth. It may not be strictly fair, but when it comes down to…
Double Shot Ep9: Terry Barnes asks if Boris Johnson has run out of lives
Augusto Zimmermann returns to talk about child sacrifice in the name of changing the weather. Surely we have moved on…
Albo’s secret plot to destroy the Aussie tradie
If you thought that housing was expensive, wait until the feral construction unions get their hands on the domestic housing…
NSW politicians snub parental rights in education forum
14 New South Wales politicians snubbed a parents’ rights and education forum held in Sydney last weekend. Of the 16…
Australia Breaks Apart: essential reading for dissidents
Even before 2020, I didn’t have that many friends. It’s something I regret, not having made more effort to stay…
Give the reef a break!
The nonsense intensifies this week with warnings that Fiji’s beaches and reefs are facing an ‘uncertain future’ under the seemingly…
Close polls puzzle pundits as NZ election looms
Centre-right voters are increasingly wondering how many more disasters it will take to seriously dent the government’s poll numbers. Whether…
Confessions of a Young Liberal
One of the very first pieces that ran in The Monthly magazine was about the activities of the Young Liberals. It was…
Finding truth in the shadows of social media
As more time is being spent scrolling through social media than reading books, our ability to identify fiction and differentiate…
Spectator TV Australia: the vibe and water justice
Ramesh Thakur talks about the strange political relationship between Covid and US politics. Will the next Presidential race be a…
Being nasty to Nigel
The UK’s born-to-rule class of hedge fund managers, politicians, bureaucrats, CEOs, and old-money have never forgiven the former Member of…
The failure of forced transition despite public lust for green energy
Throughout history, interactions of supply and demand have driven ‘transitions’ – think horses to cars and trains; whale oil to…
Big government, jobs, and productivity
My mum arrived in Australia with the first boatload of second world war refugees at the end of 1947. She…
Extraction 2: action goes old school
One of the biggest surprises in recent years is Extraction. A no-nonsense, adrenaline-fuelled action movie about a tough soldier ploughing his…
Affirmative action is dead in US universities
Universities in the US, by law, will no longer be allowed to discriminate to allow access to college education based…
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Trump punctures India’s hype
But risks significant harm to their strategic partnership as an Indo-Pacific counterweight to China
