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David Marr, the celebrated journalist, has done it again. First he psychoanalysed the rabid Kevin Rudd in his essay Power…
Australian notes
David Marr, the celebrated journalist, has done it again. First he psychoanalysed the rabid Kevin Rudd in his essay Power…
Australian Notes
Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…
Australian Notes
Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…
Australian notes
Mr Putin suggests that Syria submit its chemical weapons to international control. Syria’s foreign minister thinks this is a good…
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Mr Putin suggests that Syria submit its chemical weapons to international control. Syria’s foreign minister thinks this is a good…
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They can’t help themselves. Despite the ancient warnings against counting chickens and the dreadful memory of the unlosable, but lost,…
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The Labor party has no hope of winning the election unless something extraordinary happens in the next few days. Is…
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It was a great night in the Paddo RSL. It was an open-to-all public meeting to hear and question candidates…
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Tony Abbott won the first debate marginally on both style and issues. Neither leader was faintly inspirational let alone charismatic.…
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While Kevin Rudd was making his way to Yarralumla last Sunday, Tony Abbott was in Sydney’s Chinatown with Julie Bishop…
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It was a stoic little gathering of Craig Thomson loyalists in the Celebrity Room of City Tatts in Sydney. Promoted…
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More from Poor Peter’s Almanac: Kevin Rudd is disliked by all who know him but is popular on television. Tony…
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Anyone who believes Kevin Rudd has changed will believe anything. So says the great cartoonist Bill Leak, unloading during the…
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The crowded Thanksgiving Service at St James, Kings Street, Sydney, for Charles Copeman, the mining executive who died aged 83…
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There’s something irresistible about a philosopher who gives his recreations in Debrett’s as ‘wine, women and song’. Ken Minogue, who died last…
