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+__license__ = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2011, Pat Stapleton <pat.stapleton at gmail.com>'
+'''
+https://www.spectator.com.au/
+'''
+import re
+from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class SpectatorAU(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title = 'Spectator Australia'
+    __author__ = 'Pat Stapleton, Dean Cording, James Cridland'
+    description = 'Spectator Australia is an Australian edition of The Spectator, first published in the UK in July 1828.'
+    masthead_url = 'https://www.spectator.com.au/content/themes/spectator-australia/assets/images/spec-aus-logo.png'
+    cover_url = 'https://spectator.imgix.net/content/uploads/2015/10/Spectator-Australia-Logo.jpg'
+    oldest_article = 7
+    handle_gzip = True
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    use_embedded_content = False
+    scale_news_images_to_device = True
+    encoding = 'utf8'
+    publisher = 'Spectator Australia'
+    category = 'Australia,News'
+    language = 'en_AU'
+    publication_type = 'newspaper'
+    extra_css = '.article-header__author{margin-bottom:20px;}'
+    conversion_options = {
+        'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': language, 'publisher': publisher, 'linearize_tables': False
+    }
+
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(attrs={'class': ['article']})]
+    remove_tags = [dict(attrs={'class': ['big-author','article-header__category','margin-menu','related-stories','disqus_thread','middle-promo','show-comments','article-tags']}), dict(name=['h4','hr'])]
+    remove_attributes = ['width', 'height']
+
+    feeds = [
+        ('Spectator Australia', 'https://www.spectator.com.au/feed/'),
+        ]