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The Spectator (Australia), 26 Sep 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 Not OKKK

‘Is it heart­en­ing for you to see someone like anti-immig­ra­tion Pau­line doing well in Aus­tralia?’ asked the Chan­nel Nine journ­al­ist. He was chat­ting, as you do, to a char­ac­ter called Thomas Robb, who hap­pens to be the leader, or Grand...

Lead­ing art­icle Not OKKK

ArticleUnite the right? In Aus­tralia we did that

So let’s not panic in the face of pop­u­lism Bri­tain is again debat­ing how to ‘unite the right’. In the Tele­graph last week, Lord Frost – Boris John­son’s former Brexit nego­ti­ator – argued that the Con­ser­vat­ives and Reform must reach an...

Unite the right? In Aus­tralia we did that

ArticleBad laws out­live their vic­tims

The tobacco excise is today’s win­dow tax Eng­land once taxed day­light. It did so for 155 years. That is the num­ber to keep in mind as we watch Can­berra defend a tobacco excise that has handed four-fifths of a legal mar­ket to organ­ised...

Bad laws out­live their vic­tims

ArticleGer­many’s polit­ical earth­quake

The right wins big – and could also soon in France We think we’ve heard it all before: a European elec­tion her­al­ded as a great vic­tory for the right against open bor­ders and net zero. The con­ser­vat­ives win more votes than any other party. But...

Ger­many’s polit­ical earth­quake

ArticleTaylor & Canavan must stop the pref­er­ence leak to Labor

Or lose again Because the enemy is from within, the next elec­tion is prob­ably the most cru­cial in our nation’s his­tory. If the parties who hate tra­di­tional Aus­tralia – the anti-Aus­tralia axis – remain in power, we will fol­low Argen­tina and...

Taylor & Canavan must stop the pref­er­ence leak to Labor

ArticleAll bets are off

Can gambling and racing sur­vive Labour’s onslaught? The August 2004 cover of Play­boy fea­tures a top­less Eva Herzigova (‘The super­model is super­naked’) and prom­ises a piece about ‘Amer­ica’s 10 sex­i­est bar­tenders’. If that isn’t enough to...

All bets are off

ArticleBoob job

I’ll do any­thing to keep Zack Polanski out of Kentish Town On the morn­ing of the 2005 gen­eral elec­tion, the young man who sat oppos­ite me at work asked, ‘How did you vote?’ ‘That’s none of your busi­ness,’ I replied, in a silly, prim voice. A...

Boob job