Rowan Dean

Sydney

Columnist at Australian Financial Review

Editor-in-Chief at The Spectator

Host at Outsiders (Podcast)

Editor-in-Chief The Spectator Australia, Host #Outsiders on @SkyNewsAust, best-selling author, satirist.

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Articles

Federal Election set for May 3rd

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Rowan Dean

So it begins. The most important five weeks of our lives. The Australia that is born on May 3rd will either be a recovering addict on the way to being healed or a crippled, mutant gasping its last. That is up to all of us. The stakes in an election have never been higher.
Bored on a long flight to nowhere? Qantas can keep you entertained

Aug 8, 2024 | afr.com | Rowan Dean

Welcome to Qantas, the Spirit of Australia. Please find enclosed your in-flight entertainment pack and we trust you will enjoy our captain’s selection of the finest Hollywood cinema releases. Wait until the in-flight movies get started. Peter Rae
Rebels without a clause: bikie gangs take over the EBA talks

Jul 25, 2024 | afr.com | Rowan Dean

The Born Losers: in this sinister story, a bikie gang rides into a remote Victorian town just as a major construction financed by the taxpayer is about to get under way. The gang leader gently sidles up to the foreman and whispers, “I’ll rip your effing head off, you’re a dog”. Terrified, the construction boss immediately fires all his existing workers and buys a new enterprise bargaining agreement from the bike gang at over three times the cost.
What does it take to protect a president in today’s Secret Service?

Jul 19, 2024 | afr.com | Rowan Dean

What does it take to protect a president in today’s Secret Service? America’s Secret Service has been accused of excessive wokeness and red-tapery. Here is the evidence that is just not true.
The fashion statements line up on Canberra’s most famous red carpet

Jul 4, 2024 | afr.com | Rowan Dean

It was the famous Canberra Midwinter Ball this week, the high point of fashion and style on the Australian calendar, where the cream of the political world and the stars of the media world get to outshine each other in their dazzling array of must-have haute couture. But who were the standouts this year? The Australian Financial Review’s fashion guru, Lady Rowena Wintour-Ball, hits the red carpet with her definitive guide to the best and worst dressed of the night:
How Wiffyleaks blew apart the secrets of the Albanese government

Jun 27, 2024 | afr.com | Rowan Dean

As Australia’s most notorious exile returns to our shores, it’s time to start releasing top-secret documents all over again. In this world exclusive, the Fin’s very own citizen journalist Ms Rowena Manning-Assange publishes a cache of hitherto top secret files of the Albanese government on her popular WiffyLeeks website:Julian Assange gave two thumbs up as he stepped off the plane to applause in Canberra on Wednesday night. Alex Ellinghausen
why it’s time to revisit disaster movies like On the Beach, Silkwood and The China Syndrome

Jun 20, 2024 | afr.com | Rowan Dean

The world of nuclear disasters was rocked to its molten core this week with the news that the Coalition intends to make the next election a referendum on nuclear energy. With that in mind, surely now is the time for woke Australia to urgently re-visit all those famous “nuclear disaster” movies. The China Syndrome: Gripping drama starring Jane Fonda about the mysterious trip to Australia of the Chinese Premier Li Qiang.
Suspend your disbelief? Naaah! This is Hollywood

Jun 13, 2024 | afr.com | Rowan Dean

[Somewhere in Hollywood …]Producer 1: What about one of those prison buddy movies? You know, Shawshank Redemption meets Brubaker? Midnight Express meets Stir Crazy? A comedy crime caper thriller. Two guys have to share a prison cell, but they’re, like, totally incompatible. Can’t stand each other, but they’re locked up day and night together in this tiny little six-foot cell!
Why NDIS minister Bill Shorten seems to living in a never-ending soap opera

Jun 6, 2024 | afr.com | Rowan Dean

The world of financial waste was rocked to its core this week with the shock news that Minister for the NDIS and one-time Labor leader Bill Shorten relies on the $620,000 skills of a former Sons and Daughters and A Country Practice TV soap opera writer to polish his speeches. “I have a true love of carving eloquence from the clumsy and verbose,” she claims. She surely must …
Variety of reads for all ages

Jun 2, 2024 | sunraysiadaily.com.au | Vernon James Knight |Rowan Dean |Allan Murphy

5 Benefits of Using a Smartwatch for Workouts 01:23 7 Ways To Help Your Child Succeed in School 01:56 All You Need to Know About the Winter Youth Olympic Games 2024 01:26 Surviving Summer Allergies: Top Tips to Provide Relief 00:54 5 Family Friendly Holidays 01:29 5 Irresistible Benefits of Resistance Bands 01:37 Tips For Dealing With Stress Before Exams 01:26 7 Tips for Retirement Planning 01:22 Homeschooling vs Traditional Schooling 01:58 6 Most Anticipated Gaming Releases In 2/2 Of 2023...