A Roman emperor’s Triumph: Australia 2025
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/07/a-roman-emperors-triumph-australia-2025/Australia in 2025 is a temporary one-party state, and not yet a Roman emperor’s triumph with gold, elephants, flute girls, and slaves parading through the streets of Rome. The federal...
Bad policy begets worse policy
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/07/bad-policy-begets-worse-policy/What is the difference between levying tax on the unrealised gains on an asset with a market value, and levying a tax on the imputed increase in the value of a promise for which there is no market?...
The crisis of international law: sovereignty and compliance
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/07/the-crisis-of-international-law-sovereignty-and-compliance/The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 had attempted to resolve a previous era of religious wars and there began the development of the nascent nation states of Europe. The new...
The benefit of my ‘fake’ Bachelor of Music
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/07/the-benefit-of-my-fake-bachelor-of-music/I remember vividly the day I received my offer to study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. It was 2006. I thought I wanted to study media and communications to become a journalist...Alan Moir’s Cartoon of the Day
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