Latham’s law
Have new communication technologies suddenly become dangerous? I always thought texting on whiz-bang iPhones was a good thing.If my daughter’s…
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Every parent knows the problem. An errant child who is always telling lies, whether it’s ‘I didn’t take them’, ‘I…
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The education system used to be so straightforward. But now, with the classics of Western civilisation being chucked into the…
Trump towers
In his 1977 book The Age of Uncertainty, the American economist John Kenneth Galbraith depicted the great leaders of history…
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At last, there’s a break in the weather. As identity politics has swept across Australia like a crackling thunderstorm, drenching…
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What was Paul Ramsay thinking? In dedicating part of his estate’s $3 billion endowment to course work at an Australian…
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In the Middle Ages, society had a long list of taboo terms, usually associated with witchcraft. In today’s politics, the…
Hangers-on
The former NSW Premier Neville Wran had an interesting take on the true meaning of working class culture. Having grown…
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One of the strange reactions to the 17th Century Enlightenment was the concept of the Noble Savage. In the backlash…
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For the large amounts of national security spending and ‘expert advice’ available to our governments, they are still struggling with…
Diary
My two sons, aged 16 and 14, are at the wonderful stage where, in the sharp-humoured traditions of Australian larrikinism,…
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In this era of media lists – such as Fitzy and Wippa counting down the Top 20 Mind-Numbingly Trivial Celebrity…
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President Dropkick & The US Confusion Centre When an obscure, unelected committee, rising up from the bottom of Canberra’s bureaucratic…
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I have a confession to make. When late last year, on the ill-fated panel show The Verdict, I publicly declared…
Diary Australia
At the season launch for the 1987 Sheffield Shield, the South Australian captain, David Hookes, was seated next to Don…
Latham’s Law: 29 September 2012
For many readers, The Spectator Australia is like The Real Housewives of Orange County. Only the front bits are worth…
Latham’s Law – 8 September 2012
Gerard Henderson is crackers. This is the only conclusion one can reach from his increasingly bizarre attacks on The Spectator…
Latham’s Law – 25 August 2012
One of the grave concerns of parents is bullying at school, that unbearable circumstance in which good, hard-working students are…
Latham’s law – 11 August 2012
This is the story of an Australian Opposition Leader who cried wolf about a new tax. In the months leading…
Latham’s Law – 28 July 2012
When Kevin Rudd was rising through the ranks of the Parliamentary Labor party a decade ago, his most diligent critic…
Latham’s law – 21 July 2012
In the public dispute over Labor-Green preferences, Sarah Hanson-Young, the Greens’ immigration spokesperson, made a telling contribution. ‘There’s a big…
Latham’s Law – 14th July 2012
One of the delusions of life in Canberra is that laws passed on Capital Hill have a big-bang impact on…
Latham’s Law -30 June 2012
First, an important update. In September I reported on the new system by which the memory of journalists would be…
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Nothing excites journalists more than a debate about the future of journalism. While this is not unusual among professional groups,…
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For those who study the succession to the throne, last Friday was a red-letter day. Britain’s Prince Charles gave a…
