Australian Notes
I am in John Howard’s corner rather than Tony Abbott’s on the great question of knights and dames. But the…
Australian Notes
I am in John Howard’s corner rather than Tony Abbott’s on the great question of knights and dames. But the…
Australian notes
Until recently the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) movement was on its last legs in Australia. Few Australians had heard…
Australian notes
Until recently the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) movement was on its last legs in Australia. Few Australians had heard…
Australian notes
Cheers all round for Andrew Bolt who extracted an apology, however grudging, from the ABC for broadcasting false and defamatory…
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Cheers all round for Andrew Bolt who extracted an apology, however grudging, from the ABC for broadcasting false and defamatory…
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An Aborigine, an Arab and a Jew enter a public bar. They look more worried than angry as they bear…
Australian notes
An Aborigine, an Arab and a Jew enter a public bar. They look more worried than angry as they bear…
Australian Notes
What an eccentric case the Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane mounted against the federal government’s proposal to amend section 18C…
Australian Notes
What an eccentric case the Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane mounted against the federal government’s proposal to amend section 18C…
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The Labor party and many journalists are scandalised (‘aghast’, ‘outraged’) by the Abbott government’s decision to accede to a request…
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The Labor party and many journalists are scandalised (‘aghast’, ‘outraged’) by the Abbott government’s decision to accede to a request…
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In his eloquent ‘Closing the Gap’ speech Tony Abbott’s call to all Australians ‘to open their hearts’ to Aborigines was…
Australian Notes
In his eloquent ‘Closing the Gap’ speech Tony Abbott’s call to all Australians ‘to open their hearts’ to Aborigines was…
Australian Notes
A new class war is being mounted between those who feel for Schapelle Corby in her long ordeal in an…
Australian Notes
A new class war is being mounted between those who feel for Schapelle Corby in her long ordeal in an…
Australian Noties
When Senator Eric Abetz was a raw youth of 23, he had what he calls an ‘instructive’ experience. A newly…
Australian Noties
When Senator Eric Abetz was a raw youth of 23, he had what he calls an ‘instructive’ experience. A newly…
Australian Notes
A footnote to the Dolce Affair in which the literary-political magazine Overland has banned the work of the songwriter and…
Australian Notes
A footnote to the Dolce Affair in which the literary-political magazine Overland has banned the work of the songwriter and…
Australian Notes
Almost every newspaper in the world from China to Peru has an opinion, usually censorious, about President Hollande of France…
Australian Notes
Almost every newspaper in the world from China to Peru has an opinion, usually censorious, about President Hollande of France…
Australian Notes
To start with a story: long years ago in 1978 Mary Lady Fairfax hosted a dinner in her Point Piper…
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To start with a story: long years ago in 1978 Mary Lady Fairfax hosted a dinner in her Point Piper…
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John Howard tells the story about a public meeting organised by the Women’s Electoral Lobby back in 1974 when he…
