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There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws

There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws

In the wake of the horrendous Bondi Beach massacre, the Minns government has taken the extraordinary measure of reconvening NSW parliament for two days right before Christmas, as it has already officially closed for the year, and this is primarily to consider new firearm laws that NSW premier Chris Mins considers ought to be in place before the entire ...
The Iranian-Australian community

The Iranian-Australian community

As an Iranian writer who has lived in Australia for nearly 11 years and has been collaborating with The Spectator Australia for about a year, I was invited at the end of the year to the magazine’s Christmas gathering for its writers. The event offered a chance to get to know other contributors more closely a small, warm, and diverse group where, unlike ...
This won’t blow over, Albanese

This won’t blow over, Albanese

From Nuremberg: I’ve been exploring the city that was home to both the beginning and the end of the most atrocious form of ideological extremism in the 20th Century. Nuremberg’s Zeppelin Field, where Adolf Hitler conducted his Nazi Party propaganda rallies during the 1930s, became the scene of an American victory parade in 1945 where the huge swastika ...
Never ever again

Never ever again

On 15 December, I witnessed horrific news footage of a massacre at Bondi, a nation reeling, not from an unforeseeable shock, but from the predictable consequences of an unrestrained ideology of hate tolerated in the name of multiculturalism. What confronts us is a failure of governance and civic courage so profound that it defies comprehension and ...
Why misogyny lessons for schoolboys will backfire

Why misogyny lessons for schoolboys will backfire

All parents and teachers of teenagers will know two things. The first is that teenagers are the human equivalent of seismometers when it comes to perceived unfairness: they are acutely sensitive to any injustice or unequal treatment, and if they feel they are not being treated the same as their peers, this can quickly erupt into an outburst of outrage ...
Europe has left Ukraine living on borrowed time

Europe has left Ukraine living on borrowed time

Russia started the war on Ukraine, so Russia should pay for the damage it has wrought. Such was Volodymyr Zelensky’s forceful message to European leaders last night as he pleaded for a ‘reparations loan’ backed by the €190 billion (£167 billion) of Russian Central Bank capital frozen in a Belgian clearing bank since Putin’s full-scale invasion. ‘Just ...
One more time around

One more time around

Five genre-bending drama series made keenly anticipated returns to television this year, all of them meeting expectations convincingly enough to ensure a further season. Clearing the hurdle for renewal is a tougher challenge than ever. With risk-averse investors punting on what they assume to be tried and tested recipes for
Australia’s conservative heart is scattered

Australia’s conservative heart is scattered

Australia’s political right is fracturing, but not because conservatives suddenly discovered a dozen new philosophies. The truth is far simpler, and far more damning: the Liberal Party abandoned almost every foundational conservative principle, and the principles didn’t disappear. They simply migrated elsewhere. Look across the political landscape. ...

There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws

There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws
In the wake of the horrendous Bondi Beach massacre, the Minns government has taken the extraordinary measure of reconvening NSW parliament for two days right before Christmas, as it has already officially closed for the year, and this is primarily to consider new firearm laws that NSW premier Chris Mins considers ought to be in place before the entire ...

The Iranian-Australian community

The Iranian-Australian community
As an Iranian writer who has lived in Australia for nearly 11 years and has been collaborating with The Spectator Australia for about a year, I was invited at the end of the year to the magazine’s Christmas gathering for its writers. The event offered a chance to get to know other contributors more closely a small, warm, and diverse group where, unlike ...

This won’t blow over, Albanese

This won’t blow over, Albanese
From Nuremberg: I’ve been exploring the city that was home to both the beginning and the end of the most atrocious form of ideological extremism in the 20th Century. Nuremberg’s Zeppelin Field, where Adolf Hitler conducted his Nazi Party propaganda rallies during the 1930s, became the scene of an American victory parade in 1945 where the huge swastika ...

Never ever again

Never ever again
On 15 December, I witnessed horrific news footage of a massacre at Bondi, a nation reeling, not from an unforeseeable shock, but from the predictable consequences of an unrestrained ideology of hate tolerated in the name of multiculturalism. What confronts us is a failure of governance and civic courage so profound that it defies comprehension and ...

Why misogyny lessons for schoolboys will backfire

Why misogyny lessons for schoolboys will backfire
All parents and teachers of teenagers will know two things. The first is that teenagers are the human equivalent of seismometers when it comes to perceived unfairness: they are acutely sensitive to any injustice or unequal treatment, and if they feel they are not being treated the same as their peers, this can quickly erupt into an outburst of outrage ...

Europe has left Ukraine living on borrowed time

Europe has left Ukraine living on borrowed time
Russia started the war on Ukraine, so Russia should pay for the damage it has wrought. Such was Volodymyr Zelensky’s forceful message to European leaders last night as he pleaded for a ‘reparations loan’ backed by the €190 billion (£167 billion) of Russian Central Bank capital frozen in a Belgian clearing bank since Putin’s full-scale invasion. ‘Just ...

One more time around

One more time around
Five genre-bending drama series made keenly anticipated returns to television this year, all of them meeting expectations convincingly enough to ensure a further season. Clearing the hurdle for renewal is a tougher challenge than ever. With risk-averse investors punting on what they assume to be tried and tested recipes for

Australia’s conservative heart is scattered

Australia’s conservative heart is scattered
Australia’s political right is fracturing, but not because conservatives suddenly discovered a dozen new philosophies. The truth is far simpler, and far more damning: the Liberal Party abandoned almost every foundational conservative principle, and the principles didn’t disappear. They simply migrated elsewhere. Look across the political landscape. ...