The Spectator Australia https://www.spectator.com.au/ The Australian edition of the iconic British weekly magazine. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:33:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 210386308 Check your tyres! https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/04/check-your-tyres/ https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/04/check-your-tyres/#respond Wed, 08 Apr ...
Ethan Hawke is an extraordinary figure. He has made straightforward Hollywood classics like Training Day but he also comes out with those films (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight) directed by Richard Linklater and co-starring the French actress Julie Delpy which trace the anatomy of an alternative lifetime. Well, now he’s made a film about ...
The Islamic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach brought us to a crossroad. The tearing apart of the national fabric has, of course, been going on for a long time. If you are a conservative, at least, this modern-day tribalism originated with the identity politics of the Whitlam era and the fiction that multiculturalism was not multi-civilisationism. But ...
It’s only taken a few months for the cracks to appear in the Albanese government’s flagship social media ban.
At 13, I opened a Tumblr account where I taught myself how to blog, curate images, and build an audience. At 15, I built a My-Space page where I obsessively arranged music, aesthetics and opinions like a teenager editing a tiny cultural ...
In his recent momentous address to the nation and the world, President Trump provided a definitive status report on Operation Epic Fury. Lauding the military for achieving more in weeks than prior administrations had in decades, he stressed the essence of the operation: to stop the theocratic terrorists fulfilling exactly what they have chanted ...
When a product becomes scarce, prices rise to ration demand. That is not a moral judgement. It is a mechanism, one of the most basic in economics. Yet time and again, politicians do the reverse of what the discipline demands. Australia is doing it again now.
The Labor government has just halved the fuel excise for three months in response to diesel ...
It’s hard not to experience cognitive dissonance watching Labor’s hapless ministers respond to the global energy crisis.
For five weeks, the world has been transfixed as the US President who wrote The Art of the Deal waged a lethal arm wrestle with the millenarian mullahs running Iran, for whom haggling in a bazaar, even over nuclear weapons, is ...
Ben Roberts-Smith VC was arrested this week after a long-running investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. He was not just arrested – he was subjected to a very public, American-style ‘perp walk’, on the apron of an airport, in full view not just of the public but also of his teenage daughters. None of this happened by accident. It presages ...
So Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested, and his life will never be the same again. Over the next few years as the trial process unfolds it will be well to remember that battlefields are extremely confused places, and some are much worse than others.
Warfare against regular uniformed combatants, such as that seen between the Allies and the Axis powers ...
We are now paying the price after decades of demonising fossil fuels. The mythical fraudulent human-induced climate change ideology and resultant net zero policies led to the reduction in oil exploration at a time when Bass Strait oil production was rapidly declining from over 90 to 10 per cent of Australia’s requirements. Blind Freddy could see that ...
The Prime Minister recently characterised One Nation as ‘…some politicians, some of which have risen up recently in the polling, who essentially are appealing to, “Vote for us and the world will stop”, or worse still, we’ll go back to the Australia of the 1950s or 60s, with the same population that look like that’. This is the ghost of Paul Keating, ...
The Albanese government thought it had scored a political win from the leaking of the Coalition’s talking points in the week leading up to Easter. But did it surprise anyone that political parties issue talking points? Informing lazy members as well as retaining a degree of consistent messaging are clear advantages. The Coalition does it; Labor does ...
The Spectator Australia https://www.spectator.com.au/ The Australian edition of the iconic British weekly magazine. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:33:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 210386308 Check your tyres! https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/04/check-your-tyres/ https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/04/check-your-tyres/#respond Wed, 08 Apr ...
Ethan Hawke is an extraordinary figure. He has made straightforward Hollywood classics like Training Day but he also comes out with those films (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight) directed by Richard Linklater and co-starring the French actress Julie Delpy which trace the anatomy of an alternative lifetime. Well, now he’s made a film about ...
The Islamic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach brought us to a crossroad. The tearing apart of the national fabric has, of course, been going on for a long time. If you are a conservative, at least, this modern-day tribalism originated with the identity politics of the Whitlam era and the fiction that multiculturalism was not multi-civilisationism. But ...
It’s only taken a few months for the cracks to appear in the Albanese government’s flagship social media ban.
At 13, I opened a Tumblr account where I taught myself how to blog, curate images, and build an audience. At 15, I built a My-Space page where I obsessively arranged music, aesthetics and opinions like a teenager editing a tiny cultural ...
In his recent momentous address to the nation and the world, President Trump provided a definitive status report on Operation Epic Fury. Lauding the military for achieving more in weeks than prior administrations had in decades, he stressed the essence of the operation: to stop the theocratic terrorists fulfilling exactly what they have chanted ...
When a product becomes scarce, prices rise to ration demand. That is not a moral judgement. It is a mechanism, one of the most basic in economics. Yet time and again, politicians do the reverse of what the discipline demands. Australia is doing it again now.
The Labor government has just halved the fuel excise for three months in response to diesel ...
It’s hard not to experience cognitive dissonance watching Labor’s hapless ministers respond to the global energy crisis.
For five weeks, the world has been transfixed as the US President who wrote The Art of the Deal waged a lethal arm wrestle with the millenarian mullahs running Iran, for whom haggling in a bazaar, even over nuclear weapons, is ...
Ben Roberts-Smith VC was arrested this week after a long-running investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. He was not just arrested – he was subjected to a very public, American-style ‘perp walk’, on the apron of an airport, in full view not just of the public but also of his teenage daughters. None of this happened by accident. It presages ...
So Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested, and his life will never be the same again. Over the next few years as the trial process unfolds it will be well to remember that battlefields are extremely confused places, and some are much worse than others.
Warfare against regular uniformed combatants, such as that seen between the Allies and the Axis powers ...
We are now paying the price after decades of demonising fossil fuels. The mythical fraudulent human-induced climate change ideology and resultant net zero policies led to the reduction in oil exploration at a time when Bass Strait oil production was rapidly declining from over 90 to 10 per cent of Australia’s requirements. Blind Freddy could see that ...
The Prime Minister recently characterised One Nation as ‘…some politicians, some of which have risen up recently in the polling, who essentially are appealing to, “Vote for us and the world will stop”, or worse still, we’ll go back to the Australia of the 1950s or 60s, with the same population that look like that’. This is the ghost of Paul Keating, ...
The Albanese government thought it had scored a political win from the leaking of the Coalition’s talking points in the week leading up to Easter. But did it surprise anyone that political parties issue talking points? Informing lazy members as well as retaining a degree of consistent messaging are clear advantages. The Coalition does it; Labor does ...
