Category: Spectator Australia

Klaus Schwab, founder and head of the World Economic Forum (who many joke resembles a villain from Hollywood central casting), may be facing a mutiny from within his own ranks in a plot worthy of its tinsel-town script. It’s been 52 years since Schwab, at the ripe old age of

A sweeping new Australian socialist experiment is well underway. The signs are everywhere. But it’s unique… This is socialism with Australian characteristics. And it’s being plainly stated. In a paper released this week, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a radical remake of capitalism. The Australian explains this as a ‘seismic policy shift’

We genuinely urge doctors involved with medical regulation not to go down with the sinking ship of authoritarian censorship and suppression of intellectual freedom. Not only is this behaviour historically illiterate and intellectually feeble, but it is putting the safety of patients at risk, causing hazards to public health, runs

I am normally patriotic about sport, but when Novak Djokovic handed Australian Alex de Minaur his arse in the fourth round at the Australian Open, I had to laugh. When Djokovic was asked why he thrashed de Minaur in brutal straight sets (6-2 6-1 6-2), Djokovic replied, ‘Because I wanted to.’

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation.’ For many of us who observe culture, it is clear that the Western variety is at least crumbling around the edges, if not rotting at the core. And as citizens in

Jim Chalmers is proving to be the most iconoclastic Treasurer since the Whitlam government’s Jim Cairns, a man who only joined the Labor Party after his application to join the Communist Party was rejected. Cairns spearheaded a previous assault on conventional capitalist economic theory and, like Chalmers, sought to borrow,

Something strange has been happening in conservative politics. The Liberal Party is being told that the only way it can cling onto power (or win it back) is if the party panders to the demands of women. Women are out. Women are the reason Morrison lost the election. Women are

Whether you admire or loathe Jacinda Ardern as the Prime Minister of New Zealand, you have to admit, she was different. Unique. Popular. One of a kind… Shortly after 11 am on January 19, I stepped into a lift on the New York end of Collins Street. ‘OMG! Jacinda Ardern

The decision by Kyiv’s international partners to send Nato-designed main battle tanks to Ukraine is a pivotal moment in the Russo-Ukrainian War. The tanks may be the focus of attention, but they were part of a much larger range of commitments – Ukraine’s partners have now committed to enabling Kyiv to

As the furore about Prince Harry and Spare finally shows some signs of dying down – the book’s second week sales dropped 82 per cent, albeit with a wildly impressive 82,538 copies sold – it is time, once again, for his uncle to take centre stage. It seems as if the

On Sunday 22 January 2023, Darren Moore was found dead. Moore was a long-standing and well-known drag artist in Cardiff where he lived. He was also a convicted child rapist. The fact that news outlets had the ability to report on the colour of Moore’s wig but not on

Stampedes for subsidised government-distributed flour, the worst economic crisis in decades, a coalition government unsure of its moorings and reluctant to carry out much-needed economic reforms, sectarian and separatist violence across large spans of the country, terrorist groups, diplomatic and ideological problems with neighbouring Afghanistan, and some of the worst