Neil Brown

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21 February 2020 10:00 pm

Scott Morrison may not realise it, but he has just been thrown a lifeline by the High Court that could…

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15 February 2020 9:00 am

STOP PRESS We have just had to stop the presses that were printing the new edition of Brown’s Political Dictionary…

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7 February 2020 10:00 pm

For a while there, I thought that my credentials on climate change were pretty good. As I explained to my…

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1 February 2020 9:00 am

There is an air of inevitability about the predicament facing the former sports minister Bridget McKenzie over the sports grants…

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24 January 2020 10:00 pm

After weeks of tough negotiating and heart-wrenching self-examination, I am delighted to announce that I am embarking on a transition…

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18 January 2020 9:00 am

The decision that the Morrison government seems to have taken to appoint a royal commission into the bush fires is…

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11 January 2020 9:00 am

As Chairman of the Board at Thyme magazine, I am thrilled to welcome you to this year’s award of Sneer…

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21 December 2019 9:00 am

My problem with Christmas is that it is all ‘give, give, give.’ Whatever happened to ‘take, take, take’? Taking is…

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14 December 2019 9:00 am

The newly elected Morrison government is now just over six months old, so it is probably a good time for…

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7 December 2019 9:00 am

I don’t like writing in support of politicians. It only encourages them. But Scott Morrison has been subjected to such…

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23 November 2019 9:00 am

New York is a difficult place to get a handle on just how the place works. But despite this, every…

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9 November 2019 9:00 am

I had just settled down in Air Canada’s luxury airliner that would whisk me across the Pacific to Vancouver and…

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2 November 2019 9:00 am

I am catching up on writing my award-winning treatise on practical politics. Here are three general principles about politics on…

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26 October 2019 9:00 am

This week marks the 50th anniversary of my election to the House of Representatives on 25 October, 1969. What has…

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19 October 2019 9:00 am

I need your help. I am applying to the Australia Council for a literary grant and I need a few…

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12 October 2019 9:00 am

I am just amazed that we seem to be sleepwalking into a complete overthrow of our structure of government and…

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5 October 2019 9:00 am

It may seem strange that a columnist should write about his own column and, in particular about a feature as…

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28 September 2019 9:00 am

There is no doubt about the vigour and enthusiasm of the Morrison government in bringing about social reform. Only the…

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21 September 2019 9:00 am

I have recently been reading two political books each of which was a complete waste of time and money. Then…

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14 September 2019 9:00 am

I made three gigantic mistakes in my political career. Not just the usual stupid things that politicians do, like wasting…

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20 July 2019 9:00 am

As you know, The Spectator Australia Political Research Bureau scours the globe searching for new ways in which the democratic…

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13 July 2019 9:00 am

As you know, here at The United Nations Cultural Reform Unit we have embarked on a major project to remake…

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6 July 2019 9:00 am

You do not need me to recommend good books. But I will do it all the same, or at least…

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29 June 2019 9:00 am

As we speak, a bright new class of newly-elected MPs and Senators is assembling in the cities, towns and remote…

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22 June 2019 9:00 am

The long march through our institutions goes on, and they are falling over like ninepins. The latest victim is the…