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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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New York is a difficult place to get a handle on just how the place works. But despite this, every…
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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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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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This week marks the 50th anniversary of my election to the House of Representatives on 25 October, 1969. What has…
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I need your help. I am applying to the Australia Council for a literary grant and I need a few…
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I am just amazed that we seem to be sleepwalking into a complete overthrow of our structure of government and…
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It may seem strange that a columnist should write about his own column and, in particular about a feature as…
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There is no doubt about the vigour and enthusiasm of the Morrison government in bringing about social reform. Only the…
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I have recently been reading two political books each of which was a complete waste of time and money. Then…
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I made three gigantic mistakes in my political career. Not just the usual stupid things that politicians do, like wasting…
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As you know, The Spectator Australia Political Research Bureau scours the globe searching for new ways in which the democratic…
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As you know, here at The United Nations Cultural Reform Unit we have embarked on a major project to remake…
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You do not need me to recommend good books. But I will do it all the same, or at least…
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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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The long march through our institutions goes on, and they are falling over like ninepins. The latest victim is the…
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I am afraid I cannot join in the universal and maudlin distress into which so many of our fellow citizens…
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A few months ago, I was cleaning up my study to see what could usefully be discarded, so that my…
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Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US election the day she called Donald Trump’s supporters ‘a basket of deplorables’. After that,…
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You liked Pink Batts? You’ll love Funny Money! Why? Well, I am now convinced that the Liberal party has gone…
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Last week, candidates from all parties were starting to drop like flies as they were disendorsed by their parties for…
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I see that some members of the media have started referring to the election as ‘boring’. I disagree with them.…
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Our serried ranks of interstate and overseas readers may not be aware that in the last two weeks Melbourne has…
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The federal parliament used to be a place of vigorous but respectful debate. Not now. I was reflecting on this…
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There is something symbiotic about the fact that the federal Budget has been dropped on us just when the final…
