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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…
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Advice to new graduates from an old Chief Justice of Australia, Murray Gleeson: ‘To think against the spirit of the…
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Advice to new graduates from an old Chief Justice of Australia, Murray Gleeson: ‘To think against the spirit of the…
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Hal Colebatch — lawyer, historian, poet, novelist — tells the story that, when speaking a few years ago to a…
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Hal Colebatch — lawyer, historian, poet, novelist — tells the story that, when speaking a few years ago to a…
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One or two obtuse observers expressed surprise that Martin Sharp came in the end to embrace conservative values. He even…
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One or two obtuse observers expressed surprise that Martin Sharp came in the end to embrace conservative values. He even…
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Tony Abbott is right. Too much is being made of the Governor-General’s ‘injudicious’ support for republicanism and gay marriage. It…
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Tony Abbott is right. Too much is being made of the Governor-General’s ‘injudicious’ support for republicanism and gay marriage. It…
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The protest rally across the road from Parliament in Sydney was no lynch mob. They were ordinary, mostly elderly people…
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The protest rally across the road from Parliament in Sydney was no lynch mob. They were ordinary, mostly elderly people…
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Mr Keating cannot help himself. The solemnity and splendour of the Remembrance Day service in a drizzling Canberra was a…
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Mr Keating cannot help himself. The solemnity and splendour of the Remembrance Day service in a drizzling Canberra was a…
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In his call to arms at the black-tie dinner in Sydney Town Hall celebrating the Lowy Institute’s tenth anniversary, Rupert…
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In his call to arms at the black-tie dinner in Sydney Town Hall celebrating the Lowy Institute’s tenth anniversary, Rupert…
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Good to see the names of another 11 writers added to the Circular Quay Writers’ Walk in Sydney. But can…
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Good to see the names of another 11 writers added to the Circular Quay Writers’ Walk in Sydney. But can…
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The offence of the Greens, especially Adam Bandt, in blaming the bushfires on Tony Abbott is not that they politicised…
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The offence of the Greens, especially Adam Bandt, in blaming the bushfires on Tony Abbott is not that they politicised…
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The cheers of 180 celebrants (at $290 a head) echoed across the moonlit harbour from Pinchgut Island to the Opera…
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The cheers of 180 celebrants (at $290 a head) echoed across the moonlit harbour from Pinchgut Island to the Opera…
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Neither ‘Albo’ Albanese nor Billy Shorten will be the next Labor prime minister, according to John Howard. This is partly…
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Neither ‘Albo’ Albanese nor Billy Shorten will be the next Labor prime minister, according to John Howard. This is partly…
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At Julia Gillard’s triumphal rallies, her ecstatic audiences applauded the idea that her valour in standing up to misogyny will…
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At Julia Gillard’s triumphal rallies, her ecstatic audiences applauded the idea that her valour in standing up to misogyny will…
