Neil Brown

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13 December 2014 9:00 am

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

25 October 2014 9:00 am

The wit and charm of Whitlam could not disguise his serious flaws

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4 October 2014 9:00 am

I regret to say that this will be my last column, at least in this regular form. I am afraid…

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20 September 2014 9:00 am

Troy Bramston (‘Gorton vs McMahon: the secret memo’ 30 August) joins a long line of journalists who keep repeating the…

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6 September 2014 9:00 am

There have certainly been some changes in how governments go about their business. In the past, when trying to work…

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23 August 2014 9:00 am

We came from Scotland when my father was nine and his family ditched the old world a year after the…

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2 August 2014 9:00 am

The success of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop in handling the aftermath of the ghastly events in Ukraine has been…

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26 July 2014 9:00 am

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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19 July 2014 9:00 am

I wonder if you have noticed that the public response here and overseas to the current Middle Eastern crisis has…

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12 July 2014 9:00 am

I feel as if I am writing the Diary this week, as I recount the ups and downs of my…

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5 July 2014 9:00 am

I hope the proposals from the one- man committee of inquiry to make the ABC and SBS ‘more commercial’ are…

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28 June 2014 9:00 am

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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21 June 2014 8:00 am

I originally thought the Abbott/Hockey budget was pretty sensible and logical in terms of the financial crisis facing the country;…

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14 June 2014 9:00 am

Those of you who have read this column recently know that what has been agitating me is the expansion of…

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7 June 2014 9:00 am

I agree with Lucy Turnbull about Malcolm’s dinner with Clive Palmer. Her father Tom Hughes used to be in politics…

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31 May 2014 9:00 am

I do not like talking about personalities in politics. What is at stake is too important to be channelled through…

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24 May 2014 9:00 am

It is a minority opinion, but to me there seems to be a remarkable lack of passion and enthusiasm in…

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17 May 2014 9:00 am

It looks as if at long last we have a government that is prepared to make some hard and unpopular,…

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10 May 2014 9:00 am

I devoted most of last weekend to attending the conference of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia in Canberra.…

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3 May 2014 9:00 am

Our criticism of the ABC loses its credibility if we do not praise it on those occasions when praise is…

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26 April 2014 9:00 am

There are now another 156 reasons for keeping our constitutional monarchy, for that is the number of leading barristers who…

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19 April 2014 9:00 am

Monday nights are back to normal and I can watch the new season of Game of Thrones, the brilliant dungeons…

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12 April 2014 9:00 am

I was thrilled to see the implacable enthusiasm of Afghani voters as they lined up in their thousands for hours…

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5 April 2014 9:00 am

It was good to see the government’s decision to amend Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, as the reforms…

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22 March 2014 9:00 am

The next step has been taken in Victorian barristers’ consideration of changing their titles from the rather anodyne Senior Counsel…