The Spectator (Australia) Zeitschrift Online-Abonnements

ArticleLead­ing art­icles

Fac­tions first What’s in a name? Prime Min­is­ter Anthony Albanese has shown him­self to be very adept at play­ing polit­ics. Who can blame him? After the Labor party tore itself apart in the Rudd/Gil­lard/Rudd years, he learned the import­ance of...

ArticleWhat’s in a name?

What has become of the groves of Aca­deme? James Cook Uni­versity is debat­ing whether to change its name, an exer­cise in West­ern self-loath­ing that it is estim­ated would cost some $12 mil­lion. The case for change appar­ently includes the claim...

ArticleEye spy,

ArticleMitre read­ing,

ArticleA very Eng­lish revolu­tion

Amer­ica’s revolu­tion­ary achieve­ments were groun­ded in con­ser­vat­ive con­sti­tu­tional thought Every­one has their own way of think­ing about Amer­ica’s Declar­a­tion of Inde­pend­ence. For some, it is the birth cer­ti­fic­ate of mod­ern...

ArticleBread, cir­cuses and bal­listic mis­siles

While Can­berra indulges in polit­ical theatre, Beijing rehearses for war If we were to dig­nify Anthony Albanese with a gov­ern­ing ethos, it would be bread and cir­cuses. As national debt crosses the tril­lion-dol­lar mark, we see the daily...

ArticleThe treason of the ten­ured

Uni­versity thought police demand ideo­lo­gical con­form­ity in the name of aca­demic free­dom Asso­ciate Pro­fessor Mat­thew Cham­pion of the Uni­versity of Mel­bourne has spent his career study­ing how medi­eval and early mod­ern com­munit­ies...

ArticleStyle versus sub­stance

A New­som can­did­acy could trig­ger a Tru­man-style upset When sub­scrip­tion news cap­tions recently blared the words ‘Far-Left Win­ning Streak’ inside the Demo­cratic party, they were react­ing to a loc­al­ised explo­sion in Amer­ica’s urban core....