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I should stop saying I am surprised by this or that decision of the Turnbull government. But last week’s one…
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I am genuinely concerned for the welfare of the leading figures in the Liberal party. I don’t mean I am…
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A sigh of relief swept through Australia on budget night when Prime Minister Trumble announced that he had discovered the…
EXCLUSIVE: Forgotten People speech draft discovered
On Monday, 22 May, Liberal party grandees, MPs and supporters will gather at a gala dinner in Canberra to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of…
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Give credit where it is due, my mother used to say. So I must congratulate the Prime Minister on his…
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As readers know, I have been engaged for the last year on a search for the ideal job. Having spent…
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What a surprise! The newly appointed chairman of the ABC, Justin Milne plans to do nothing about bias on the…
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The government deserves two cheers for its changes to Section 18C which may do something towards restoring free speech. But…
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My sadness at Bill Leak’s death is compounded by the fact that I never met him. But his influence on…
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All good things come to an end and in my case I am rapidly coming to the end of one…
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All good things come to an end and in my case I am rapidly coming to the end of one…
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Until a few days ago I was planning to start this column with: ‘Have you noticed how the heat has…
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Until a few days ago I was planning to start this column with: ‘Have you noticed how the heat has…
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A few weeks ago I told you about two particularly nasty and brutal attacks on our local jewelry store in…
The Nauru deal: don’t say we didn’t warn ya
Back in November, just after the presidential election, Neil Brown wrote a cracker of a column for the Speccie. It…
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One day about 20 years ago, I was walking down Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, giving a word of encouragement here…
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I should stop saying I am appalled by every new horror that arises in public life; there are so many…
Where’s the bloody Human Rights Commission while Valhalla’s burning?
Although the Human Rights Commission spends a lot of its time digging up imaginary wrongs and encouraging people to get outraged and…
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The Sussan Ley scandal highlights the monumental problem facing the Turnbull government in restoring its public standing to anything remotely…
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Here at the Spectator Australia Electoral Reform Unit, we certainly had our hands full in 2016, what with Brexit, and…
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My christmas stocking fillers An exciting group of new and emerging writers exploded onto the literary scene in 2016. So,…
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Of all the hare-brained ideas that governments come up with, the deal with the US to take refugees from Manus…
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I have a terrible confession to make. No, it is not that I was a bully at school, or even…
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The FBI certainly stirred up the US election when it announced it had found more of Hillary Clinton’s emails on…
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Perhaps all is not lost. There might yet be hope for the education of our youth. Like many people, I…
