Spectator


The quality journalism project: Switzer the Spectator

Editor Tom Switzer is one of TV’s favourite conservative talking heads. He’s close with former PM John Howard and was a former adviser to opposition leader Brendan Nelson. But what does Switzer read and listen to on a daily basis?

Guy Rundle: Windschuttle hung out to dry on the rabbit-proof fence

Keith Windschuttle’s appearance in last week’s Oz Spectator may be the first example of Howard-era retro-chic, in an article focused obsessively on the 2002 film Rabbit-Proof Fence

Alarms sound as The Australian Spectator launches

The glittering launch of The Spectator Australia magazine at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music last night ended farcically when a fire alarm went off, writes Ern Malley.

Who interviewed Utzon first?

Why does Eric Ellis persist with the boast that he was the first member of the Australian media to interview Utzon following the architect’s sad 1966 exit from Sydney? asks Ava Hubble.

Business Spectator lifts off

Okay, it’s out there. The mysterious “Project X” that has been muttered about around the Crikey offices for the last year launches today. It’s called Business Spectator, writes Margaret Simons.