Is Spectator Australia biased?
AllSides places Spectator Australia on the right. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Spectator Australia biased?
AllSides places Spectator Australia on the right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Spectator Australia left or right?
AllSides places Spectator Australia on the right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Spectator Australia reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for Spectator Australia. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- AllSidesrightCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
- Press HoldingsMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Australia
- Official site
- spectator.com.au
- Seen publishing on
- spectator.com.au
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Spectator Australia ran the story anyway.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Spectator Australia: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 6 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 August 2026. Ratings pulled 6 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- Spectator AustraliaRightOpinionBritain could benefit from the European shift on migration (opens Spectator Australia in a new tab)
Australia
Our report: EU leaders criticise Spain over Ceuta migrant surge as 80 die
- Spectator AustraliaRightTrump’s White House helipad do-over (opens Spectator Australia in a new tab)
Australia
Our report: Trump orders White House helipad rebuilt after criticising its slope
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Spectator Australia, also publishing from Australia, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.