Independent Commentary > Spectator Australia >

The night Australia died

The night Australia died

Australia died tonight. An obscene number of people were shot down in cold blood celebrating a Jewish holiday on the iconic and wonderful Bondi Beach. Murdered, most likely, by religious fanatics. Murdered, possibly, by people who came, or whose parents came, to this country and imported a toxic, deadly, and poisonous ideology. Nobody thought to stop ...
One Nation’s conservative conversion

One Nation’s conservative conversion

There are rumours that One Nation is head-hunting another two Coalition members. If true, this is Reform behaviour. Nigel Farage’s conservative revolution has employed the enormously successful tactic of power by conversion where high-profile defections have expanded Reform’s political presence in government outside of the election cycle. The most ...
Frosty relations

Frosty relations

Treasurer Jim Chalmers made a song and dance about Antarctic investment earlier in December, obscuring the deteriorating situation in Australia’s southern external territory. ‘We’re expanding Australia’s Antarctic Program to create jobs and boost investment in Tasmania,’ Chalmers wrote on X. ‘This investment means more support for our scientists, more ...
Zohran Mamdani begins radicalizing New York

Zohran Mamdani begins radicalizing New York

The radicals are now in charge of NYC. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has unveiled his transition team and voters who agreed with his diagnosis that “everything is too expensive” will now have to live with the anti-police activists, anti-merit educrats and anti-Zionist radicals running the show. The moderate center is in for a shock. Take Alex Vitale, ...
The long, awful shadow of the siege of Sarajevo

The long, awful shadow of the siege of Sarajevo

They call them the roses of Sarajevo: scars ripping through the concrete and painted red, marking where an artillery round claimed a life during the longest siege of modern history – a full three-and-a-half years, longer than even the siege of Leningrad. From May 1992 until December 1995, an average of 329 shells struck the Bosnian capital each day, ...
The story of the Battle of Blood River

The story of the Battle of Blood River

Johannesburg, the wealthiest city in Africa and home to more than 12,000 millionaires is about to become a ghost town. Just over a week before Christmas, there’s a lull in the traffic as homes in both the suburbs and the sprawling black townships empty out. On 16 December, the Day of Reconciliation marks 187 years since the Battle of Blood River when a ...
Australia’s distant thunder

Australia’s distant thunder

The proposition sounds almost absurd at first hearing. Australia, our vast island-continent anchored firmly in the Indo-Pacific, dispatching forces to defend European soil against Russian aggression… Yet history suggests we dismiss such scenarios at our peril. Australians have form when it comes to fighting other people’s wars on distant ...
Egypt’s blind spot

Egypt’s blind spot

With the smoke of war now lifting from Gaza, a troubling question comes into focus: Why has Egypt’s role been so conspicuously ignored? While Cairo has cast itself as mediator and moral critic, its long-standing posture toward Gaza – before the war and throughout it – raises uncomfortable questions about responsibility, enforcement, and ...

The night Australia died

The night Australia died
Australia died tonight. An obscene number of people were shot down in cold blood celebrating a Jewish holiday on the iconic and wonderful Bondi Beach. Murdered, most likely, by religious fanatics. Murdered, possibly, by people who came, or whose parents came, to this country and imported a toxic, deadly, and poisonous ideology. Nobody thought to stop ...

One Nation’s conservative conversion

One Nation’s conservative conversion
There are rumours that One Nation is head-hunting another two Coalition members. If true, this is Reform behaviour. Nigel Farage’s conservative revolution has employed the enormously successful tactic of power by conversion where high-profile defections have expanded Reform’s political presence in government outside of the election cycle. The most ...

Frosty relations

Frosty relations
Treasurer Jim Chalmers made a song and dance about Antarctic investment earlier in December, obscuring the deteriorating situation in Australia’s southern external territory. ‘We’re expanding Australia’s Antarctic Program to create jobs and boost investment in Tasmania,’ Chalmers wrote on X. ‘This investment means more support for our scientists, more ...

Zohran Mamdani begins radicalizing New York

Zohran Mamdani begins radicalizing New York
The radicals are now in charge of NYC. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has unveiled his transition team and voters who agreed with his diagnosis that “everything is too expensive” will now have to live with the anti-police activists, anti-merit educrats and anti-Zionist radicals running the show. The moderate center is in for a shock. Take Alex Vitale, ...

The long, awful shadow of the siege of Sarajevo

The long, awful shadow of the siege of Sarajevo
They call them the roses of Sarajevo: scars ripping through the concrete and painted red, marking where an artillery round claimed a life during the longest siege of modern history – a full three-and-a-half years, longer than even the siege of Leningrad. From May 1992 until December 1995, an average of 329 shells struck the Bosnian capital each day, ...

The story of the Battle of Blood River

The story of the Battle of Blood River
Johannesburg, the wealthiest city in Africa and home to more than 12,000 millionaires is about to become a ghost town. Just over a week before Christmas, there’s a lull in the traffic as homes in both the suburbs and the sprawling black townships empty out. On 16 December, the Day of Reconciliation marks 187 years since the Battle of Blood River when a ...

Australia’s distant thunder

Australia’s distant thunder
The proposition sounds almost absurd at first hearing. Australia, our vast island-continent anchored firmly in the Indo-Pacific, dispatching forces to defend European soil against Russian aggression… Yet history suggests we dismiss such scenarios at our peril. Australians have form when it comes to fighting other people’s wars on distant ...

Egypt’s blind spot

Egypt’s blind spot
With the smoke of war now lifting from Gaza, a troubling question comes into focus: Why has Egypt’s role been so conspicuously ignored? While Cairo has cast itself as mediator and moral critic, its long-standing posture toward Gaza – before the war and throughout it – raises uncomfortable questions about responsibility, enforcement, and ...