Phallus in Blunderland
It was about 2 years ago that I started hanging out with Teddy. And what a roller- coaster of a…
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With the stuff and nonsense being thrown around about Dyson Heydon and the Royal Commission into union corruption, it is…
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Over the last year or so I have been trying to catch up on two aspects of modern culture that…
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It looks like we may have an early election. So that my readers will be well-informed citizens ready to take…
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There seems to have been an awful lot of evolving going on in Canberra lately. This has been particularly evident…
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Frankly, I cannot see anything wrong in paying people smugglers to go home; had I been in the government’s position…
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People seem to think I do not like the ABC. I can understand why some people hold this view. It…
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I suppose no-one will believe me when I say that I predicted the result of the UK election. But I…
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If I thought there was free speech in Australia since the Andrew Bolt case, I would tell you what I…
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I see that another parliamentary committee has been grappling with the dispute between the government and Gillian Triggs, and the…
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You will be distressed to hear that I have recently been in the hands of the doctors. However, there is…
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It is profoundly disturbing that the Liberal Party seems to have taken leave of its senses again and is about…
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I had hoped to bring you a cheery Christmas tale, but the political goings on in Melbourne and Canberra mean…
Whitlam – my part in his downfall
The wit and charm of Whitlam could not disguise his serious flaws
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I regret to say that this will be my last column, at least in this regular form. I am afraid…
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Troy Bramston (‘Gorton vs McMahon: the secret memo’ 30 August) joins a long line of journalists who keep repeating the…
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There have certainly been some changes in how governments go about their business. In the past, when trying to work…
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We came from Scotland when my father was nine and his family ditched the old world a year after the…
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The success of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop in handling the aftermath of the ghastly events in Ukraine has been…
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Being an insomniac, I woke about 4 a.m. last Friday, turned on the BBC and there was the news already,…
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I wonder if you have noticed that the public response here and overseas to the current Middle Eastern crisis has…
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I feel as if I am writing the Diary this week, as I recount the ups and downs of my…
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I hope the proposals from the one- man committee of inquiry to make the ABC and SBS ‘more commercial’ are…
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A column like this cannot ignore the terrible events in the Middle East as Iraq falls apart from bloody-mindedness, Islamic…
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I originally thought the Abbott/Hockey budget was pretty sensible and logical in terms of the financial crisis facing the country;…
