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The Spectator (Australia), 8 Aug 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

Tof the cur­rent fed­eral cab­inet short ly after the elec­tion of the Albanese gov­ern­ment in May 2022, assert­ing that it was prob­ably the ‘least intel­li­gent gov­ern­ment in Aus­tralia’s his­tory’. As time has gone on, we have seen no need to...

Lead­ing art­icle

ArticleMy pre­dic­tion? 18C will bite the dust

After more than thirty years of argu­ment about the mer­its and valid­ity of sec­tion 18C of the Racial Dis­crim­in­a­tion Act, the High Court may finally be asked to answer the con­sti­tu­tional ques­tion that has sat unre­solved since the Keat­ing...

My pre­dic­tion? 18C will bite the dust

Article‘The genu­ine pro­gess­ive’

Since becom­ing Spec­tator editor there was one obser­va­tion I heard more often from read­ers than any other: ‘Rod is the first page I turn to every week.’ Whatever people’s polit­ics, back­ground or other interests, to be a Spec­tator reader was to...

‘The genu­ine pro­gess­ive’

ArticleIn Can­berra, con­sent not required

Among the most power­ful ideas in the his­tory of polit­ics is that gov­ern­ments derive their powers from the con­sent of the gov­erned. Legit­im­acy does not flow down from a crown, a court, or a bur­eau­cracy. It flows up from the people, and only...

In Can­berra, con­sent not required

ArticleHow to suc­ceed as a Covid expert

On 29 July, Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amend­ment one hun­dred and eleven times in three hours before a Sen­ate com­mit­tee – answer­ing noth­ing about gain-of-func­tion fund­ing, noth­ing about the Wuhan Insti­tute of Vir­o­logy, noth­ing about...

How to suc­ceed as a Covid expert

ArticleSecret Diary of Anthony Fauci (aged 85 ¾)

Where was an Aus­sie Ron de Santis? Thanks to the intrepid work of Sen­ator Dr Rand Paul, we have now been able to read the secret diary of Dr Anthony Fauci (aged 85 ¾). They are sur­pris­ingly sim­ilar to those of Adrian Mole (aged 13¾), both marked...

Secret Diary of Anthony Fauci (aged 85 ¾)

ArticleNobody paid for this art­icle

Can other news pub­lic­a­tions say the same? How can Aus­trali­ans trust the energy debate when the gov­ern­ment is help­ing to pay the journ­al­ists report­ing on its own policies? This is not a hypo­thet­ical ques­tion. The Albanese gov­ern­ment’s...

Nobody paid for this art­icle