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If I were a betting man, my money would be on Angus Taylor taking over the Liberal leadership at the end of this sitting week.
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View as a gridRBA interest rate hike: our plight under Opposition light | The Spectator Australia
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Interest rates are going up while the Treasurer is making jokes about the Nationals being a minor party. The arrogance and disconnect is real.
Liberals' last hurrah? | The Spectator Australia
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Can Angus Taylor pull off a leadership coup against Sussan Ley without the moderates scuttling the ship out of spite? I don't think so.
Flag-burning justifies audits of funding for activist groups | The Spectator Australia
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When the Australian flag is burnt at Invasion Day rallies, taxpayers deserve reassurance that they are not funding partisan activism.
Silvertail Liberals are up against sons and daughters of Anzacs | The Spectator Australia
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The Liberal Party thinks that changing their leader is going to fix the party's problems, but who is going to lead them?
Albo delivers 'dog's breakfast', claims antisemitism wasn't Labor's fault | The Spectator Austral...
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Pauline Hanson won't be in the debate that will run late tonight because she is banned from the Senate for warning about Islamist extremism.
Condolences today, (in)action tomorrow | The Spectator Australia
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Both houses were recalled for a special sitting for the condolence motion and to pass laws designed to prevent such horrific terrorist acts.
Labor's Islamic terrorism deflection is desperate | The Spectator Australia
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Parliament returns today for a rare special sitting recalled early by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to pass gun buybacks legislation.
Nobel Peace Prize forgets its realist origins and goes full Woke | The Spectator Australia
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, has put the proverbial cat among the pigeons.
Hate speech is not Islamic terrorism, and where's Pauline? | The Spectator Australia
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Instead of confronting the deadly threat of Islamic terrorism head-on, they are diverting attention to nebulous concepts like 'hate speech'.
Adelaide writers' festival meets the ghosts of socialists past | The Spectator Australia
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The Adelaide Festival writers haven't done themselves any favours this week.
Albanese folds, appoints Virginia Bell to lead Royal Commission | The Spectator Australia
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In a press conference this afternoon, Prime Minister Albanese announced a Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.
Labor's Royal Commissions are typically political theatre | The Spectator Australia
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Governments wield the instrument of Royal Commissions not just to uncover truths, but to shape narratives that suit their political agendas.
The wrong stuff! | The Spectator Australia
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As crises mount and the economy falters, Albo stands revealed. Not just wanting, but utterly out of his depth.
New York is now the most idiotic city in the world | The Spectator Australia
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New York, the city that symbolises the American Dream has voluntarily shackled itself to the failed experiments of the past.
Make Sydney and Melbourne city-states | The Spectator Australia
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Politicians and polling agencies don't give a toss about regional Australia. Wealth generated in the regions is spent by our indulgent cities.
Young Australians should travel instead of going to Woke universities | The Spectator Australia
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Giving qualifications to university dropouts? That is credential inflation dressed up as compassion. A participation trophy...
Merry Christmas from the heartland of Santa Claus | The Spectator Australia
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This Christmas is more special than any I have experienced before, as if heralding a renaissance of all that is right with the world.
This won't blow over, Albanese | The Spectator Australia
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Albanese has failed Australia. He needs to resign now. A survivor of the Holocaust was shot and killed by Islamic terrorists at Bondi Beach.
Old hatreds have infiltrated Australia, and we let them in | The Spectator Australia
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Why do Europeans have to live with their Christmas markets surrounded by anti-terror concrete bollards? Our life has changed - for the worse.
If Germans won't fight for Germany, who will? | The Spectator Australia
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Young German men are protesting against voluntary - perhaps compulsory - conscription. They don't believe in war, even as defence.
Comms Minister Anika Wells rejects the premise of liberal democracy | The Spectator Australia
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Anika Wells. A communications minister who cannot answer questions or properly explain an outrageous expenses bill.
ACT government flirts hard with socialism | The Spectator Australia
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The ACT government has passed new laws that remove third-party appeals for public and community housing projects.
Will Albo's crocodile diplomacy discourage China's flotillas? | The Spectator Australia
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Crocodile diplomacy is the belief that sweet words and shared hatred of America will buy you safety in a world of hard power.