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The Spectator (Australia), 20 Jun 2026

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The Spectator Australia was launched in October 2008 and includes the current edition of the iconic British magazine plus lots of pages of additional Australian content and editorial edited by Rowan Dean.

In This Edition

ArticleLead­ing art­icle

Peace offer­ing Last week the world looked on in hor­ror at the foot­age of a beau­ti­ful young 21-year-old girl, Maria Eduarda Rodrig­ues de Freitas, being cal­lously tossed to her death at a Brazilian bun­gee jump, as the safety rope lay use­lessly...

Lead­ing art­icle

ArticleRoyal treat­ment,

Back in the day, Chelsea Flower Show was regarded as the begin­ning of the Sea­son. Queen Alex­an­dra opened the fest­iv­it­ies in 1913, when it moved from the Embank­ment to its cur­rent loc­a­tion in SW3. It must have rained that day for there’s a...

Royal treat­ment,

ArticleCan­berra’s obscene com­pas­sion machine

How our gov­ern­ments and bur­eau­crats are fail­ing Abori­ginal chil­dren The alleged abduc­tion and murder of five-year-old Kuman­jayi Little Baby from an Alice Springs town camp should have shattered one of the most pois­on­ous illu­sions in...

Can­berra’s obscene com­pas­sion machine

ArticleJim Chalmers is one of the most use­less treas­ur­ers ever

But Fin­ance Min­is­ter Katy Galla­gher is even worse Jim Chalmers will go down as one of the worst treas­ur­ers that Aus­tralia has ever had, up there with Jim Cairns. Ten quar­ters of neg­at­ive per cap­ita GDP growth guar­an­tees that descrip­tion.

Jim Chalmers is one of the most use­less treas­ur­ers ever

ArticleTart of gold,

The obvi­ous thing to say about themed res­taur­ants is that they are usu­ally bad. The Rain­forest Café in Lon­don, for instance, was noth­ing like a rain­forest, though it is slightly more like a rain­forest now it has gone. But there are...

Tart of gold,