Notes: The data below is generally current as at 7 September 2021 however there may be some minor discrepancies due to jurisdictional reporting methods and timeframes etc. A key source of information for this article is the Australian...
The Attorney-General Michaelia Cash announced the appointment of a new Human Rights Commissioner, Lorraine Finlay, this week. I live in hope that she will help Australian...
Former Wallaby great David Pocock was interviewed on ABC Radio National by Fran Kelly last week. He was invited onto RN Breakfast his new initiative in the ‘battle against climate...
The European Union shows all the signs of worsening economic, social and political decline, with symptoms ranging from tepid economic growth and chronically high unemployment to social unrest...
For students of democracy and foreign policy, Australia has been experiencing interesting times in the last two years. All countries devote enormous effort and considerable resources to ‘public diplomacy’. This takes two forms. ...
Absolutism is stalking the land. Extreme policies are being proposed and justified as the only possible response considering the supposedly extreme nature of the circumstances they...
The pandemic has revealed many cracks in our society, not least of all in our media. One reality that can be illuminated from the last 18...
It is a strange and curious fact that moments of seismic historical significance are so often capable of being reduced to a single galvanic frame. Iconic...
Being the discerning lot that they are, Spectator Australia readers would have by now worked out that I am a social conservative and an economic dry, in...
Greens leader Adam Bandt last week gave an interview to American left magazine Jacobin (the name says all you need to know about its juvenile brand...