Rebecca Weisser

Rebecca Weisser

Visiting Fellow (2024)

Ms. Weisser is the Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer of Quadrant Magazine and Quadrant Books and is a regular contributor to The Spectator Australia. Previously, she was Commentary editor at The Australian and comments on Australian politics and international relations on ABC and Sky News. She was a Research Associate at the Centre for Independent Studies, served as an Australian diplomat for a decade, worked at Qantas Airways, and Australian Catholic University. She is the author of Strangling the Goose with the Golden Egg – Why we need to cut Superannuation taxes on Middle Australia, Institute of Public Affairs, 2016, 'Classical liberalism, the Australian media, and the ghost of Governor Darling' in Making Australia Right: Where to from here?, editor James Allan, Connor Court, 2016, and 'The Perils of Benevolence' in On Fairness, editor Nick Cater, Menzies Research Centre, 2015. Ms. Weisser has a First class Honours degree in Arts from Australian National University and a Graduate Diploma in Foreign Affairs and Trade.