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In the 1980s classic Ghostbusters, Ray Parker Jr’s theme music gave rise to an enduring catchcry: Who you gonna call?…
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Parliamentary service confers on its participants a wide range of life skills. One of these is an unerring ability to…
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Each year with the commemoration of Anzac Day, there are some fascinating reflections on our national culture. I think the…
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There is a story, apocryphal perhaps, about the meeting between John F. Kennedy and the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in…
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A common lament in political commentary is how parliamentary life has changed beyond recognition. The end of Cold War ideology…
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No one could accuse the Queensland Labor Party of over-intellectualising its political tactics. At a time when academics and commentators…
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Some of the new television programming for 2012 has been hard to follow. Last Sunday, for instance, I tuned into…
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One of the mighty tales of American politics concerns the populist, Depression-era Governor of Louisiana, Huey Long. Campaigning for office,…
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The Gillard-Rudd struggle is not just about party politics. It is also about media politics. At the Sydney Morning Herald,…
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Kevin Rudd’s resignation as Foreign Minister is consistent with every other scene in this Rudd-inspired soap opera. The man who…
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Later this year, Labor’s new leader (either Stephen Smith or Bill Shorten) will have a strategic decision to make: what…
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One of the delusions of the nanny state is that laws made in the distant chambers of Parliament House can…
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The wonder of the Tent Embassy riot lies not in how or why it happened, but in the political judgement…
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Saturday morning at the nearest coffee shop, marvelling at the power of Murdoch self-promotion. One paper presents a profile of…
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December was a bad month for the Kim family. First Kim Il-Carr was dumped from Julia Gillard’s cabinet. Then Kim…
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In the pages of this magazine and elsewhere, the British neolibertarian Brendan O’Neill has mounted a curious argument about media…
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On one of his visits to Australia, Bill Clinton confessed to former NSW Premier Bob Carr that ‘Some people in…
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Lost in the hub-hub of Labor’s National Conference was an election result which lays bare the true state of Australia’s…
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Earlier this year, the Sydney Morning Herald declared Chris Pyne to be Australia’s most annoying person. I must confess, I…
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Kim Williams has left Foxtel just in time, escaping Bob the Blogger’s ferocious campaign against Psychic Sally, Teen Mom and…
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Andrew Bolt got into trouble recently when he suggested that some people exaggerate their aboriginality for financial gain. Having just…
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As they say at the BBC, it must be a matter of taste. When it comes to watching footy matches…
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Bob Carr needs a good dose of the Central Coast water which has perked up the lives of John Della…
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Rugby union used to be known as the game they play in heaven. On the evidence displayed at the Rugby…
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Not many people see Laurie Ferguson, the Labor member for my old seat of Werriwa, as a raconteur. With his…
