The Spectator (Australia)

Saturday - 21st March, 2026
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Shame on Tame, shame on Australia

Imagine, if you will, a scenario in which a member of the British House of Lords or perhaps even a minor member of the royal family goes on the BBC and insists to a large British audience that the story of Brittany Higgins being raped in parliament is...

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Saturday - 14th March, 2026
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Pride of lionesses

National pride matters. And symbols or displays of national pride carry huge significance. That is the lesson of the brave young Iranian football ers, the Lionesses, and their refusal to sing the Iranian national anthem. This led to them being...

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Saturday - 7th March, 2026
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Pity the poor lefty

Ping to wade through the Middle East moral swamp he or she now finds themself stuck in. It was all so much easier, of course, when you could simply whack on a keffiyeh and wander around Martin Place babbling into a megaphone about ‘Freeing Palestine...

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Saturday - 28th February, 2026
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Win this priceless Storrier and save Sydney’s water.

Archibald Prize. Two-time Sulman Prize recipient. Collected by the Met in New York, the National Gallery, and every major museum in Australia. Awarded an Order of Australia for services to art. And you could own an original Storrier from just...

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Saturday - 21st February, 2026
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Congratulations, Mr Taylor

Unlike most of the mainstream media, and especially the ABC, the Guardian, Fairfax and the other motley groupings of left-wing rags and platforms, this magazine is keen for Angus Taylor to succeed. A decade of anticonservative government has been a...

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Saturday - 14th February, 2026
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Mr Trumble opines

If the rumours are true, shortly after this magazine is printed the Liberal party room will have a leadership spill. Many assume that Angus Taylor will replace Sussan Ley, but given the history and unpre dictability of such events, there could be a...

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Saturday - 7th February, 2026
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Dim Chalmers

As the union movement and other woke or left-wing entities struggle to find ever more imaginative new ways to waste the taxpayer’s hardearned money, Marita Punshon writes in this week’s issue about the latest boondoggle from Tasmania. Certain council...

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Saturday - 31st January, 2026
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It’s the party, stupid

Within the next few days there may or may not be a leadership spill in the Liberal party. The contenders to replace Sussan Ley are, apparently, Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie. Perhaps they will combine forces, or perhaps they will slug it out. Perhaps...

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Saturday - 24th January, 2026
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Australians united

The good news is that support for Australia Day is surging. A poll missioned by the Institute of Public Affairs shows that 76 per cent of Australians support celebrating Australia Day on 26 January, while just one in ten oppose it – down from 17 per...

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Saturday - 17th January, 2026
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Claytons royal commission

This week, the Prime Minister finally acquiesced to the broad outpouring of support across Australia’s political, professional and civic spectrum and agreed to establish a royal commission into antisemitism. Yet he immediately devalued the undertaking...

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Saturday - 10th January, 2026
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A test of leadership

There have been some notable noshows at the Ashes this summer. In the wake of her travel allowances scandal, the high-flying Minister for Sport, Ms Anika Wells, missed the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the first time since she was...

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Saturday - 3rd January, 2026
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Wilful blindness

The appalling massacre of Australian Jews at Bondi Beach on the eve of Hanukkah did not come out of nowhere. It was the violent culmination of a persistent failure to arrest the spread of antisemitism in Australia. It was shocking in its brutality, yet...

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Saturday - 13th December, 2025
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Snow job

hoaxes and scams. For those of us includ ing a majority of our readers - who do not accept the basic premise of the climate change cult, this comes as no surprise. If the building blocks of your ideology are a self-evident falsehood, it doesn’t matter...

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