Australia
Leading article Australia
False messiah
Can Kevin Rudd lead the Labor party to the Promised Land of milk, honey and only relatively minor swings against it at the federal election? Clearly, his most fervent disciples… Read more
Check the facts
‘#vomit’ is how Mia Freedman concluded a tweet she sent to her 44,376 followers on 10 October. It attacked an article Paul Sheehan wrote admonishing the Prime Minister for playing… Read more
Six o’clock swill
It has been such a great party, you’d be mad not to enjoy every last minute of it. A $300 billion bash that would make Jay Gatsby wince. But now,… Read more
Gonski or Conski?
It comes as no real surprise that the words ‘con’ and ‘fiddle’ are being bandied around when it comes to the revised Department of Education figures the government is using… Read more
Diary Australia
Chris Wallace
‘That’s Uncle Tom,’ the young Chinese student says to his European pal, pointing at the… Read more
Cory Bernardi
My last Spectator Australia diary was filed shortly after a tour of the Colosseum in… Read more
Tom Switzer
Washington, D.C. Five years. If a week, as Harold Wilson once observed, is a long time… Read more
Australian Notes
15 June 2013
From Poor Peter’s Almanack: nothing will happen. Unlike Lady Macbeth, Julia Gillard shows no sign… Read more
8 June 2013
John Howard had one of the best lines in the ABC’s documentary Whitlam: The Power… Read more
1 June 2013
The crowds queued up in their hundreds at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on a day… Read more
25 May 2013
It was Tony Abbott’s best speech yet. I have remarked more than once on this… Read more
